They got their way. They nominated their liberal maniac. Now they can choke on him.
"Practicality" -- the soulless goal of technocracy.
The socialist technocrats are trying to maneuver America into having in reality only one party with the Rats and Pubbies reduced to being but two principal subdivisions.
A little like the merger of the AFL and the NFL into one league but there is still a great deal of hoopla over the final game each season between the two conferences.
BOHICA!
“McCain does have a reputation of being a maverick and for being willing to work with Democrats”
Why does his ‘Maverickin’ only work in the leftward direction?
Why don’t we hear about ‘Maverick’ Hillary or Obamer moving rightward, say on taxes?
Some gall, Times telling Us that we are nuts, apparently for not being leftward Mavericks ourselves.
If McCain is so truly conservative, why would all these lib editorials be so anxious for conservatives to nominate him?
That’s how it is with liberals, when you have no values, you have no foundation or sense of direction.
To liberals power and winning is everything, while principle is negotiable. “Practical” is a synonym for “the ends justifies the means”.
Sorry, this one doesn’t wash. Conservatives have compromised away their core values since Reagan, more and more with each passing election.
That 83% conservative rating is a raw number; it has nothing to do with the quality of the conservatism being measured.
It’s clear that McLame has been more than willing to get in bed with the DhimmiRats...campaign finance reform that runs roughshod over free speech rights, shamnesty for illegal aliens, and on and on.
His record is sufficient to draw conclusions on future direction. And McLame comes up short.
Time to stop castigating conservatives. A significant number aren’t likely to get back on the bus just because some talking heads think we should...in the interest of the party. This is one of those “what have you done for me lately” situations, and we’re not feelin’ it.
And speaking of ideologues, the NY Times is rather daring in making that charge against idealogical adversaries.
Hypocrites.
Are they going to make me wear a dunce’s hat and sit in the corner?
Have no doubt. McCain is a conservative. As McClatchy Newspapers has reported ...
These opinion pieces are getting funnier every day!
Not quite the N.Y. Times but who cares what they think anyways.
Psychobabble.
This grown up doesn't need anybody to tell me how to vote or what to think. CALM DOWN, McCain. And, tell your wife to let her hair back down... it's a little premature for the "regal" up-do.
LOL, too funny.
Since McCain was never called “hysterical” while mavericking his way to the NYT and the Dims, I’ll take this scolding with a grain of salt.
Yikes, paybacks are a bitch.
“They prefer purity to practicality.”
How ‘bout we know what we want?
Dang.
I have lurked around here for years, and it has taken John McCain to drag me out of the electronic closet. I am tired of hearing the GOP shills and the liberal Republicans tell me I have to vote for the lesser evil because the greater evil is more evil. Heck, what we have had since Reagan is nothing but a choice between socialist light and socialist heavy. Either way my principles and values have remained on the losing side, and it is time we admit that the GOP will not be the vehicle to return the nation to the ideals and values of the Founding Fathers. It is time to build a new party, and while we do that we must hope and pray that there is still a place in America for those who truly believe in the founding principles of this nation.
The author is “staff”? Is that like staph infection?
I’m getting really tired of this purity bullshit. All I want is someone to the right of Karl Marx.
This author cites the wrong reasons for our rejection of McCain and then chides us for not getting it right when we reject him.