Posted on 02/09/2008 3:37:00 AM PST by goldstategop
A decisive chunk of the Republican primary electorate didn't find this goofily endearing. When Mitt stood up and warbled, they didn't like his tune. They wanted something meaner and rawer and tougher, and there was John McCain. At the risk of overextending my musical analogy way beyond its natural 32 bars, it should be noted that the defining McCain moment came back in the fall when he responded to Hillary Clinton's support for public funding for a Woodstock museum. If you're under 70 and have no idea what "Woodstock" is or why it would require its own museum, ask your grandpa.
And that's the music a lot of Republican voters want to hear. For a certain percentage of voters, McCain is tonally a conservative, and that trumps the fact that a lot of his policies are profoundly unconservative. He won New Hampshire because if you stuck him in plaid he'd be a passable Beltway impersonation of the crusty, cranky, ornery Granite Stater. The facts are secondary that, on campaign finance, illegal immigration, Big Pharma and global warming, the notorious "maverick's" mavericity (maverickiness? maverectomy?) always boils down to something indistinguishable from the Democrat position.
As it happens, on the Woodstock museum, McCain's absolutely right: If clapped-out boomer rock is no longer self-supporting and requires public subsidy, then capitalism is dead, and we might as well Sovietize the state. In a sense, it's the perfect reductio of geriatric hippie idealism: We've got to get back to the garden, but at taxpayer expense. A McCain presidency would offer many such moments. But, in between, he'd be "reaching across the aisle" to enact essentially Democrat legislation on climate change, illegal-immigration amnesty and almost everything else.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Worse, he's the quintessential CINO, dis loyalist, egotist, gigolo, and collaborator.
Quintessentially corrrect!
If our ship of state is to be righted, it will be righted from the body of conservatism within this nation.
Who will champion conservatism if McCain is president over the next four years? John himself states he is eager to reach across the isle. John, see gun, see foot, see smoke rising from foot, see big hole in foot, see blood gushing from it? John can’t help himself. He is such a die-hard liberal, he can’t keep his mouth shut long enough to fool anyone.
Conservatives don’t reach across the isle to Ted Kennedy unless it’s to trip his fat ass. As for reaching across to Feingold, what conservatives do that sort of thing?
John McCain will destroy conservatism if he gets four years to do it.
He won’t get that four years with my help.
Under 70 LOL!!! Go Mark!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Fired up! Ready to go!
I like this part on Obama:
“He wants to waft us upward on a great uniting bipartisan marshmallow of “hope” and “change” so he can implement down-the-line by-the-book highly partisan hopeless unchanged liberal policies.”
Regards
I’m worried that our “Ship of State” is the “Titanic.”
McCain is not a true conservative. He’s the true heir to the Rockefeller wing of the GOP.
Yep, and I am oh so sure that the liberal media, MSM, DBM really WANT a Republican to win.
Watch all the stuff they "discover" and and are oh so obligated to publish about McCain just AFTER he gets the Pubbie nomination. McCain will ask the North Vietnamese to take him back, he'll get better treatment there.
[Obama] wants to waft us upward on a great uniting bipartisan marshmallow of “hope” and “change” so he can implement down-the-line by-the-book highly partisan hopeless unchanged liberal policies.
That word is gonna leave a mark.
I love Dick Cheney, but I’m afraid that he would have the same effect on liberals as Hilary has on conservatives.
It would ensure that 30% of those going to the polls would crawl naked ofer broken glass (I believe that is a Steynism, as well) just to throw the switch against him.
I also think the GOP establishment would have something to say about such a strategy though.
I’d pay money to see the debates though. Cheney would destroy Hilary and Barack.
BUMPED for The Truth!!!
The usual excellent analysis by Mark Steyn! I live in Florida, and I think he’s right on the “image thing” as being McCain’s drawing card, particularly for the geezer vote. The geezer generation is not particularly interested in social issues, since they feel these things don’t affect them any more; they like the idea of somebody as old as they are (or at least close, since many of them are older) and they actually like the bluster and scary vein-popping roaring of McCain because it makes them feel powerful again. The actual substance of his ideas and his track record in bowing down - er, sorry, I mean “reaching out” - to Dems doesn’t bother them in the least because they never look at it.
Of course, I can’t say I liked Romney much, either, and while I think Huckabee has some good ideas, he’s hated by the geezers, who regard themselves as pragmatic voters with no interest in things like abortion or the gay take-over, and I don’t think he has any chance.
The whole problem from the start is that somehow, no one ever emerged under Bush who would be a good candidate for the next generation. The GOP as a party did not perform the function of “incubating” possible candidates; it’s almost as if this election was a total surprise to them, and there was simply a mad scramble to get somebody, anybody, out there to run. And this is the result.
Why is this so? Is it because, especially at the grass-roots level, conservatives found themselves fighting Dems, the media, but also other Republicans?
And to top it all off, it's the hard-working conservative who has the least amount of time or energy to spend in order to take that fight to the people. They're in the real world working to support themselves, their families and all those the socialists have made them responsible for.
What do we do?
btt
If only...
What we need is a national write-in campaign for Newt Gingrich. I don’t think he would win but that would shake up the status quo, and possibly redirect our present reps on a different course.
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