Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome (McCain wants to hijack GOP, Tea Party)

KTKZ AM 1380 Sacramento, Calif. ^ | 2010-01-21 | Michelle Malkin

[rabscuttle385]

Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for the right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives have worked hard to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.

Red Flag No. One: A reader from Arizona informed me the day after the Bay State Bombshell that he had received a robo-call from Massachusetts GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown. “He basically wanted me to vote for John McCain in November,” the reader said in his description of the automated campaign call supporting the four-term Sen. McCain’s re-election bid. “No wonder [Brown] said he hadn't had any sleep. … He was busy recording phone messages!”

Red Flag No. Two: Also in the wake of the Massachusetts special election, the nation’s most popular conservative political figure Sarah Palin announced she would be campaigning for her former running mate in Arizona in March. Palin told Facebook followers that she’s going to “ride the tide with commonsense candidates” and help “heroes and statesmen” like McCain.

Facing mounting conservative opposition in his home state and polls showing him virtually tied with possible GOP challenger and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, McCain welcomed the boost: "Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party."

Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, McCain is now clinging to its coattails to save his incumbent hide.

And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy.

In Florida, McCain’s Country First Political Action Committee is supporting the Senate bid of fellow illegal alien amnesty supporter and global warming alarmist GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, whose crucial 2008 primary endorsement rescued McCain from disaster. Grassroots conservatives support former GOP state House leader Marco Rubio -- who is hitting Crist hard for lying to voters about his embrace of President Obama’s pork-laden, fraud-ridden stimulus package.

In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs -- and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. An estimated 40 percent of her coffers are filled with out-of-state money (and much of that is flowing from the Beltway).

The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest -- stifling the candidacies of strong conservative rivals led by grassroots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal-immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far left and big-business right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet -- despite the huge cash and crony advantage of frontrunner and blank-slate Norton.

In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout and the first $85 billion AIG bailout. As GOP rival and grassroots-supported Chuck DeVore’s camp notes, Fiorina has also vacillated publicly over the Obama stimulus. With taxpayer “friends” like this, who needs Democrats?

With all due respect to McCain’s noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations. He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America. He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout. He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.

Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place. The conservative base has no such obligations -- and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late. The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.

[Revel]

I agree. If you lie down with dogs then you will called a dog.

[LomanBill]

>>If she wants to “payback” McCain so be it

Let her hop aboard the U.S.S. McTanic. It’s a long swim back from Rinoland.

[militanttoby]

Everyone and their dog on the Republican side is trying to take over the party, not just McCain. Romney, Bushes, Barbour etc and including Palin. I doubt Mccain has so much influence now.

[Sarabaracuda]

You Palin haters always compare Sarah to a prostitute when she stands on her own. You are a bunch of woman bashers.

[eyedigress]

I don’t think she’s a Rino. I think she is grateful for getting a chance to bring her spirit to the American political stage. She has morals and will stick to them. She is not a victim regardless of who introduced her.

[matthew fuller]

"Not only that but because of McCain’s stinking unconstitutional law Hayworth can’t fight back."

If you're talking about McCain-Feingold, that was killed by SCOTUS 01/21/10.

[SkipW]

Thank you for this response. It is the kind of information that people need to have. It certainly explains what all of the conflicting messages coming from sources we have come to trust is about. Several of us have discussed this possiblity before.

[matthew fuller]

"In my opinion Palin is even stupider for campaigning for Rino's like Mccain and Perry."

I have great difficulty going along with the pro-choice friendly Hutchinson.

[LomanBill]

[Everyone and their dog on the Republican side is trying to take over the party, not just McCain. Romney, Bushes, Barbour etc and including Palin]

 

Maybe if they'd all concentrated upon being Americans FIRST and "Party Members" second, the ship of state wouldn't be upside down and they wouldn't be rowing all alone in those little dingy's?

 

 

"Proud Pirates of the American Dream"

 

Anybody remember them?

 

No?  Well, allow me to refresh The Party's memory:

 

 

 

 

A Republic, is a system of governance - characterized by the RULE OF LAW.

 

No functional system of LEOs = No Republic; simple.    Has the SEC managed, or been allowed, to find its own arse yet?  Not by my observation.

 

 

Thus, what we have presently instead of a Republic is a Charlie Foxtrot that's whimpering its way into "moderate" oblivion... while Rats and Rinos fight over floating scraps of NyLon deck furniture. 

 

It is what it is.

 

PRINCIPLES FIRST!  Restore the Republic!

[Sarabaracuda]

If the Tea Party rejects Sarah, I and millions of others will reject the Tea Party. They are already in danger of being taken over by Paulbots and right wing wackos anyway. If we leave, the Tea Party will fail. I won’t no part of a movement that will turn on a woman of Sarah’s caliber over one little issue.

[blackd77]

We are being played like fools. Our collective opponent is (collectively) smart enough to avoid being caught in an obvious snare. Some of these snares were anticipated by the prey.

It was no different in 1775-1789, except information travels faster now...but that is a double-edged sword. Act accordingly.

It isn’t over. This is not a game, so don’t get complacent. Hold to your principles.

[conservativegranny]

Well I’ve got a very unique idea for that “between a rock and a hard place” dilemna. How about we just stand up for what we really believe in for a change and let the chips fall where they may? I know it is a novel idea but it seems to appeal to the people.

It’s a but difficult to throw your support and trust behind a candidate when they change positions like underwear.

Sarah is either a conservative or she is not. And the MSM is never going to say anything nice about a republican or a conservative. And the more conservative the nastier they will be. So should conservative candidates pretend that they are not? How are the rest of us supposed to know what they really believe in? This is the kind of stuff that makes people just throw in the towel and stay home.

The stakes are too serious in these future elections to be playing politics in this manner. That was the way of the past and look where it has brought us. Personally, I am not interested in what the left thinks or says about us any longer.

[LomanBill]

McWeevil has jumped the shark. He has done so by consistenly demonstrating that he lacks motivation to fight for conservative American principles.

 

>>If the Tea Party rejects Sarah,
>>I and millions of others will reject the Tea Party.

 

Says

Sarabaracuda
Since Apr 5, 2009

The Tea Party stands upon American Principle - not upon any one person;  so don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way to Rinoville.

 

[LomanBill]

>>How about we just stand up for what we really
>>believe in for a change and let the chips fall
>>where they may?

Bump that, granny - 100%

“ALMIGHTY GOD HATH CREATED THE MIND FREE”
—Thomas Jefferson

No “Party Approval” required, see?

[Nateman]

JD Hayworth was on the KFYI Morning show in anticipation of just such a ruling, however he still had reservations about coming out and making the announcement for some sort of legal reason.

[CowboyJay]

Big fan of Sarah for the most part, but this is not some trifling matter. Even taken at face value. It’s a move that could gain her the nomination at the cost of being unelectable in the general contest. If personal indebtedness was the only issue here, she could just have politely declined to endorse either side, and had her ticket stamped ‘paid-in-full’, IMO.

[Sarabaracuda]

The Tea Party won’t stand at all if it alienates Palin’s supporters. I’m beginning to think the whole movement is just a ruse bankrolled by liberals to try to split the conservative movement.

[americanophile]

Three McCain postings today...is that you J.D.?

[Sarabaracuda]

McCain is not the only Republican he constantly demonizes. He has been tearing in to Sarah even before she endorsed McCain. He always critisizes Republicans but rarely Democrats. He is an angry purist who is trying to turn the board against all those who do not fit his narrow-minded definition of conservative.

[LomanBill]

>>You are a bunch of woman bashers.

A prostitute is defined by their behavior, not by their gender.

The behavior in question being a demonstrated willingness to contort one’s principles for renumerative expediency.