Posted on 02/09/2008 8:17:28 PM PST by GVnana
It was High Noon on television, and the camera kept cutting away to those narrow shots of wall clocks and grandfather clocks and cuckoo clocks and pocket watches: that annoying clonk, clonk, clonk as the seconds ticked by and the train barreled closer. You remember the film. Everybody in town knew that Gary Cooper was the right man to stand up to the bad guys coming in on the noon train. But the unctuous Henry Morgan and all the rest of the town's bankers and shopkeepers wouldn't stand with him, and Grace Kelly, the sweet religious girl who loved him and mistrusted him, was packing her bags to leave.
Well, that's pretty much the Republican party, isn't it? Nobody doubts John McCain on foreign policy and national security. Oh, there are plenty of people who dislike his positions, beginning with the core of the Democratic party, but even they know where the man stands. It's on the other issues of the old Reagan platform that Republicans remain uneasy with McCain. The fiscal and domestic-policy conservatives--that's Henry Morgan--never liked him, and the social conservatives--that's Grace Kelly--kept hoping there was some other way to live.
Now John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee, and he needs to find a way to win over the skittish conservatives. For that matter, the conservatives need to find a way to win over the nominee. What kind of president would we have with a John McCain bitterly convinced that he has won despite, or even against, the conservative movement?
Complete article here: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/725cyzwb.asp?pg=1
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LOL, good grief, WE have been fighting the Democrats alone for years, while McCain was undermining us and threatening to join them!
Hilarious article.
Excuse me. I do. We have a Republican candidate who wants to shut down GITMO, end coercive interrogation techniques of known terrorists & give them access to the intelligence data that we have used in order to identify them as terrorists. I have many doubts.
Fred Barnes and the Weakly Standard spent literally months denigrating anyone who dared to say “Gee..Open Borders, Amnesty, and millions of Mexican’s families heading North would be a bad thing” as “Xenophobic”.
Now, they stand alone.
go figure.
If I am going to take it up the rear, I prefer it is not from the person I voted for.
Gee. What took you guys so long?
No way. Uh-uh. Not possible. I've had any number of huffily indignant Juan McCain shills splutter at me, over the past several days, their Absolute Received Wisdom that we lowly, wretched social cons are all far, far too (their own words) "fringe," "marginal" and "insignificant" to merit even the most minimal attention and/or regard of the Republican party. Therefore -- logically -- we must ALSO be too "fringe," "marginal" and "insignificant" to effect any significant difference in the results of this election, whether we glumly cast ballots for Vicente Fox, Jr. or otherwise.
I'm calling shenanigans on the author's analysis. ;)
Conservatives are "skittish" for not trusting Juan McAmnesty?
What has he done to win the trust and support of conservatives?
I know a lot of people liked High Noon, but I always found it kind of boring. I was more of a "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" kind of guy.
Maybe we can draft him at a brokered convention. "I like to watch."
When has John Mc Cain ever fought Democrats?
The way I got it figured, Obama will be the next POTUS. Overall, I'd prefer him to McCain or Huckabee. Conservatives need to regroup, go for Congress seats, local grassroots work and produce real conservative leaders, and not re-annoint RINOS.
Structural weakness in both the dhimmicrat nominees 2nd division.
Barak or Hillary are very beatable, now the rest is true, the big money is heading for the Dhimmis, the activists among the Republicans are not thrilled by Mad John, so even the “free” help his campaign could have received is moving off the table.
Hmm...now “what if” Huck is the nominee for VP to gin up the acitivsts, Barack does another “Let’s invade Pakistan” and McCain’s Senate buddies put him on to some of that lobbyist cash?
And McCain does put CA Republican moderates and their cash on board as well.
I always liked “Unforgiven”.
They said they don’t need me. They said I am irrelevant. Let them win without me.
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