Posted on 01/05/2007 10:05:39 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Why John McCain is finished
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Posted: January 5, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Why does John McCain hate the GOP?
Furthermore, how does he expect to win the party's support for 2008?
Complaints are many from those of us who might be inclined to support him. He sought to author the end of political free speech with his unconstitutional campaign finance reform efforts. He seems clueless when it comes to one of the issues that his base voters care about – the protection of marriage. And he seems to be forgetting that an energized base is what he will need to win the GOP primaries, much less the actual general election for president in the next go around.
In this month's Vanity Fair, John McCain seems to have further insulted those he seeks the support of. The 10-page tediously detailed profile delves into the senator's inconsistencies on the protection of marriage, his feelings on the war on terror and his near hostility toward protecting the border:
"I think the fence is least effective. But I'll build the g-d--n fence if they want it."
In those 17 simple words, the "maverick" (which the media invented through him) has all but signed his political death wish. Republicans cannot trust McCain, and neither should the nation at large.
Need reasons why? His most signature work in the U.S. Senate sought to undue guaranteed protections for free speech – particularly in an election cycle where free speech is of most importance. In his own efforts to leverage power in Senate proceedings, he purposefully disrupted the will of his own majority party and further slowed down the needed debate on judges. In helping to orchestrate the gang of 14, he stymied clear consensus candidates to the courts as appointed by the president.
But in the Vanity Fair quote, he demonstrates something not seen before – direct hostility toward his own base of voters.
McCain, though a champion on fighting the effective fight on Islamic fascists who seek to kill us, has seemed unplugged, uninterested and, yes, hostile to voices who are calling for secure borders. He stood by as President Bush locked out John Kyl – his fellow senator from Arizona and a true champion against illegal immigration – from proceedings that were designed to brainstorm solutions to the border dilemma.
But his statement takes on an even more sinister tone.
John McCain has spent a good deal of time and resources attempting to convince faith-based conservatives that he is the real deal in recent months. Hiring an evangelical blogger to argue his case, appearing at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and seeking audiences with other evangelicals, McCain has attempted to say to the GOP's most valued voting block that he is one of us.
It is interesting that the one statement reveals consistency in McCain's character in two ways – yet neither of them helpful.
If McCain were serious in his efforts to reach the faith-based voter, taking God's name in vain is a stupid thing to do. Evangelicals, Catholics, even serious Jews all believe that God's name is sacred and combining it with the idea of hellish damnation is in fact defamation to the Creator.
It may come as a shock to McCain, but some people are actually, truly offended by such a muff.
But in using this style of communication he heaps mountains of contempt upon that same base that is rightfully worried about who, what and why people are crossing our borders without us knowing anything about them, why they are coming and what they are bringing with them.
At one point in the Vanity Fair piece, the author observes that McCain is not good at talking about social conservatism, and that he is even worse at faking it.
Both aspects of that statement are not only readily obvious but ripe with an aroma that has already caused most faith-based voters to look elsewhere for the GOP candidate of choice in 2008.
McCain, of course, is only one of the problematic three that are all facing tremendous uphill battles in aspiring to be the party's mantle bearer. Giuliani is fiscally strong and far more consistent in his politics day to day – but he's firmly entrenched on the wrong side of the abortion and marriage debates to win any or all of the Bible Belt states. Romney is right on the issues, yet his own faith of Mormonism is scary, strange and apostate to the same block of voters that McCain and Giuliani have also spurned.
John McCain's voting record could have helped him in the outreach to pro-life voters. But his denseness, arrogance and lack of discipline have all but done in him in the election before the election.
It didn't have to be that way. There may even be time to correct course.
It seems terribly unlikely, though, that a man who has earned the bulk of his praise through being so far removed from the base of his party's voters will now suddenly see the light and embrace them sincerely.
I guess, however, one can always hope. …
Mitt next, then Rudy
Because Soros, the 527's, the lamestream media and about 70% of the big donor base and RINO's think it is his turn . . . like Bob Dole in 1996.
It just goes to show how self-centered McCain is. It's giving in to listen to the people? His whining, his foul mouth and temper are why he need not be President.
Good analysis. I think it nails it pretty well.
McCain is finished because he would be 73 the year he took office.
Alot of people like John McCain....I don't.
I don't like the way he was involved in the Keating Five and found a hole to slime out of the mess he was in, is that why he's the media darling of all times?
And then there is the Campaign Finance Reform with him and Finegold....this opened the hole for Soros to pour money into the rat patrol pockets and increased the power of lobbyists.
McCain is all about McCain, he isn't interested in America, he could care less about the safety of America, he could care less about you and me.
Sure he went out on the campaign trail with President Bush in 04, but didn't you wonder if maybe he was a 'rat in sheep's clothing' to let Kerry know what Bush had planned? After all, it took McCain a week before he gave Kerry an answer as to whether he would be his VP....surely he wasn't concerned about America at that time, he was trying to figure out a way he could present this to the American people so they would swallow it, and when that didn't work, he said no, and that's the only reason....McCain for McCain.
I don't know why the people of Arizona vote him in all the time, guess he's bringing home the 'bacon' is the only reason I can see...I haven't seen him do any good for anything else but McCain.
Vote for him if thats what you want, another RINO, but I won't....there's to many of them in the Republican party and its time we get them out....
And now he's teaming up with Drunk kennedy on an immigration bill, why doesn't he just become a RAT instead of a RINO????
Bingo. He knows he's got as good of a lock as anyone can at this point and it will be hard for him to lose the nomination at this point.
"Good analysis. I think it nails it pretty well."
That's why I think Duncan Hunter may not be such a Dark Horse after all. McCain is going to implode because of age/cfr/gang14/keating. Giulani's own playbook notes his problem. And Mitt's Mormonism in a presidential campaign paints a target on him.
Oh, it's been seen before.
Wasnt he found to be a crazy rino loon about 6 years ago???
This is it, in a nutshell. He's Republican mostly because the Democrats are a much poorer fit. But he cares not a whit about ideas or philosophy -- he's in the GOP because he needs some kind of base to achieve his power goals.
Hillary doesn't even pretend to be my friend, thats why I like her.........
He EXPECTS to be promoted because he is 'John McCain'.
John McCain is an American hero who lost his mind under Communist torture in Vietnam. Pitty him.
Because he's an idiot?
I think we are misunderstanding John McCain. John McCain does not hate the GOP. Similarly, the Democrats do not hate America. They are wholly indifferent to any such principles or substantive values. Those things are for minions and small people.
They have been wilfully subjugating the entire nation's inrerests to their own personal greedy ambitions for POWER. This is the key to understanding all these traitorous scum, who must must be exorcised from America if it is to survive.
In their mitigated defense, some of them believe that they will lead us all to a land of make-believe nirvana, where carefree lambs will prance before hungry lions. As for most of them, though, they are selfish and greedy would-be tyrants itching for the exercise of raw power.
Wake up, America.
Keep that in mind when you're deciding whether he should be the guy, as President, to lead the Republican Party at a national level.
Um, I don't know a single republican who supports McCain. There certainly hasn't been anybody on this website that I am aware of. He's the media's candidate. Just in case the Republicans win because of high turnout against Rodham-Clinon, the Republican candidate must be as liberal as possible. Same thing with Romney, who was #8 on Human Events' list of the top 10 RINOs. It would also be the case with Giuliani, but most of the MSM is from NY, and they are familiar enough with him that they can't get over their hatred for long enough to pretend they support him. I'm hoping that when we finally get to the primaries a year from now a conservative will have emerged. He doesn't need to be a frontrunner right now, just next fall.
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