Why McCain Provokes Paranoia on the Right

Salon ^ | Feb. 7, 2008 | By Joe Conason

[Terrence DoGood]

As Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, James Dobson and their lesser imitators furiously explain, they have strong reasons to distrust "straight talker" McCain, who straddles and shifts incessantly to advance his contrarian political strategy. He has so casually disrespected them and their opinions over the years, showing up routinely on the wrong side of so many of their issues, from climate change to gun control to campaign finance reform to the marriage amendment to the Bush tax cuts to judicial nominations, that endorsing him now would look like a wholesale abandonment of principle.

[sauropod]

that’s a great graphic.

[Prokopton]

Paranoia: "Suspicion of others that is not based on fact."

Nope. My "suspicion" of McCain is based on fact.

[Red Badger]

Me? a McCainbot? Bite your tongue!.............

[MrB]

Paranoia: a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others

There's nothing irrational or excessive about our suspicion of McCain, given his record and his stated views.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

John McCain Gets Soros Cash - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360852/posts

[CT]

McCain has broken his promises also. And the lies! Just look at how he is trying to flip his every big position.

[presently no screen name]

The spinning NEVER ends. THE TRUTH IS... McCain is paranoid of the conservatives.

[presently no screen name]

The spinning NEVER ends with the media. THE TRUTH IS... McCain is paranoid of the conservatives.

[SierraWasp]

Hey! Everybody!! That link of Dashwood’s is well worth a look!!!

[Biblebelter]

John McCain the gift that just keeps giving. Joe Conasson gets to write a column lecturing conservatives on paranoia. McCain can reach across the aisle and give moonbats like Connason the illusion of high ground against his opponents.

[dforest]

Believe me I could do that now. At least Paul believes in the Constitution.

It looks like most of the GOP doesn’t anymore because they can vote for McCain.

I am tired of the WOT being used to justify why we have to vote RINO. I am done with it.

[SUSSA]

endorsing him now would look like a wholesale abandonment of principle.

endorsing him now would BE a wholesale abandonment of principle.

There fixed it.

[Sybeck1]

I scraped my BUSH/CHENEY sticker off my bumper back during amnesty. I wonder how many McCain will you see?

[AuntB]

You are far from the only one saying that today.

[NonValueAdded]

“I’ll take ‘because he’s a squirrel’ for $500, Alex.”

[M203M4]

"McCain has so casually disrespected them and their opinions over the years, showing up routinely on the wrong side of so many of their issues, from climate change to gun control to campaign finance reform to the marriage amendment to the Bush tax cuts to judicial nominations..."

Everyone WAKE UP! Global whoring, gun control, CFR, tax cuts, conservative judges...McCain is on record as being against Alito's nomination to the SC, apparently because he didn't pass McCain's litmus test (Alito is a nominal conservative, bad news for McCain's agenda). McCain is an idiot on judges, an idiot on the economy, an idiot on gun control, an idiot on the first amendment, an idiot on domestic energy exploration, an idiot on illegal immigration, and yet takes only MINIMALLY acceptable positions on moral issues like gay marriage and abortion. Apparently his "true conservative bonafides" are limited to wanting to spend hundreds of years, thousands more American lives, and trillions more dollars defending the sovereignty of Iraq (while ignoring America's!) and waging a fresh, hot war with Iran, while ignoring rewarding and continuing to enrich the founts of evil in the WOT that are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. IOW, his merits over a rat populate a dismally barren landscape.

To endorse McCain is to endorse his direction for the GOP. If that is your cup of tea, go ahead and support him, and good work by the way - you beat us. If it is not your cup of tea, stop pathetically rationalizing the whoring out of your vote, like some drunk taking home the last beastly woman left at the bar (instead of looking elsewhere).

[riverdawg]

It’s not paranoia if the fears are justified. Having said that, if McCain is the Republican nominee and faces either Obama or Hillary in the general election I will vote for McCain. 2008 is beginning to remind me of 1972. I voted for Nixon in ‘72, even though he was a RINO on social and fiscal issues. The alternative (McGovern) was simply unpalatable. I feel the same way about Obama and Hillary. Even knowing what we now know about Nixon, I don’t regret my vote in ‘72 one bit.

[Yosemitest]

I STILL WON'T SUPPORT McCAIN!!! I'll probably turn him off, when he comes on, or MUTE him.

Grab your checkbooks, and keep them closed.

NOT ONE PENNY!!!, will be our battle call.

Conservatives care about the United States so much ...
that they're willing to DEFEAT McCain to save the nation!!!

McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!!

"Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them"

THIS IS WAR!!!

The only LEADERSHIP we have is RUSH!!!

[dforest]

You know what AuntB, I am tired of the GOP manipulation. I am no spring chicken anymore and I just can no longer do their bidding. I knew this CPAC thing was going to be another sham.

My son is in the military, he is for Ron Paul. Now I know why. I have never “not voted”, but this time, unless Paul runs, I will not vote. Our country is lost anyway.

I don’t know if I will be around when, or if, folks decide they have had enough of these people. But, I hope it happens.

[hoe_cake]

it’s not paranoia, it’s distrust. Simply put, distrust.