Posted on 10/15/2008 7:34:53 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
I was on Mark Levin's radio show yesterday, and Mark made the fairly obvious point that it's a bit much for him and me to be portrayed as hyper-partisan McCainiacs excoriating the apostates for not sticking with our guy at all costs. We've both been critical of McCain and neither of us wanted him as the nominee. In fact, it's many of the recent ship-jumpers who helped inflict him on the party, telling us that Cap'n Maverick was the perfect chap to reach out to the soi-disant moderates, independents, centrists and whatnot.
Here, for example, is a lively column from The New York Times at the height of primary season telling us rightwing blowhards to suck it up and stand by McCain:
It may strike some conservatives today as odd, if not absurd, to see John McCain being subjected to an auto-da-fé conducted by such Torquemadas of the right as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity. The other day, he even endured jeers at a conservative gathering in Washington, by otherwise well-behaved exemplars of conservatism...
In response, let me offer a thoughtful, considered, carefully worded comment: Would you all please just...shut...up? (I’d insert an intensifier, but this is a family newspaper.)
The author? One Christopher Buckley.
(PS As a break from all this internecine feuding, I'm heading down to Laconia, NH to see Sarah Palin.)
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Ah, Sarah Palin, a cool gal in a hot political campaign. She makes America look good and talks the talk we all understand.
That's a good point.
Still just can’t imagine McCain standing up to Pelosi or Reid.
Christopher Buckley makes no sense at all.
He is mad that aa moderate Republican is the one who won the primary, so instead he is voting for the most extreme liberal in the country?
Huh?
I have to agree. I can see a lot not to like about McCain, but there is far more to not like about Obama. While I’m tired of voting for the lesser or the evils, I will NOT be responsible for electing the greater of them. It would make more sense to stay home than to vote for Obama, and I think that’s still a pretty stupid tactic. Especially when it looks like the Congress will be even more Dem than before.
No, he’s mad because there’s a conservative candidate for Vice President.
I like Mark Steyn, along with Jonah Goldberg and Hannity, to me they have stood out among Conservatives this Election season.
I love this part:
“(PS As a break from all this internecine feuding, I’m heading down to Laconia, NH to see Sarah Palin.)”
Exactly...
McCain needs to get back to his convention speech theme:
“Stand Up and Fight”
Ya? Well try imagining Obama, Reid and Pelosi all pulling each other further and further to the Left. That’ll cheer you right up!
Lovely. Conservatives want a candidate that would make a good president (ie., one that is not going to damage this country), and we’re the ungrateful ones who don’t play nice.
He lives in the bluest of areas and is a follower not a leader. He can’t stand the heat. So he jumps on the Obama bandwagon. He is not unlike the pretend footbal fan who has a new favorite team every regular season.
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Steyn has a good point. It seems the left wing of the GOP was dead set this year to shut out the right from their own party. They succeeded in getting one of their guys nominated (not that hard, they’ve done it before), but then they expected him to turn his back completely on the base.
It should have been patently obvious that McCain was going to pick a VP who was younger and more conservative than himself - he did, and the Chris Buckley’s of the world can’t get over it.
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