Posted on 01/21/2010 8:12:54 PM PST by 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.
Forgot to address the above post to you too.
So you have made posts calling male politicians prostitutes also? Link?
Of course I'm going to "demonize" liberals, regardless of what letter follows their name.
He always critisizes Republicans but rarely Democrats.
Are you suggesting that McCain is a Republican?
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.
Little newbie, why don't you take a hike on over to GOP.com where you can apologize for RINOs to your heart's content instead of cluttering up FR, a conservative Web forum.
SNIFF x2
Any chance we can talk Hanoi into taking McCain back for the next four years?
People come and go.Principles, however, Stand Firm....
The conservative movement stands upon conservative American principles. It is not a collective hive that operates under the whim of royal mandate.Where does Juan McWeevil stand?John McCain's Wife and Daughter Pose for Photos to Support Same-Sex Marriage21-January-2010He is where he is.
“NO WOOSIFIED PEDIGREED POODLES ALLOWED ON THE BUS!”
You are slandering a great hunting breed, poodles (standard), which today are, once again, being bred for their original purpose as gun dogs.
Retrieving ducks is what poodles were originally bred for in Germany, and today there are U.S. breeders intent on bringing that breed back to its original purpose. (Those weird looking poofy clips given to the dogs is supposedly beneficial - though I don’t believe that for a moment.)
How about for the rest of time?
The newbie sarabarracuda apparently has no principles except blindly follow Palin.
They don’t call it a cult of personality for nothin’!
The RINOs need to go first; then the commies.
Sarah has to do what she thinks is correct for her. Whether by brilliant strategy or some amazing intuition, all her moves in the past year have played out remarkably well.
John McCain's Wife and Daughter Pose for Photos to Support Same-Sex Marriage21-January-2010
McCain is not a liberal. Sarah is supporting him and so should conservatives. McCain is a Republican no matter what you say. You purists are not representative of the conservative movement. You are a tiny, alienated and increasingly bitter fringe who lash out at whoever does not support your idea of purity. You have no power and you never will because you drive away any and all who don’t agree with you 100%. Have fun in the wilderness. Meanwhile, rational conservatives will take back the GOP and send the Rats packing in November.
Three strikes, you're out, newbie.
Now, the question is...do you like kitties?
IBTZ
See 131. “McCain is not a liberal” WTF?
If you only call women candidates prostitutes, it is very relevant. It shows a degree of mysogny that I thought was driven out of the GOP long ago. As to the McCain ladies’ support of gay marriage, so what? John is the one up for reelection not his wife or daughter. Did you not support Reagan because of the beliefs of his immediate family?
Trying to equate McCain with Reagan is bad form, newbie.
Three strikes, you’re out, newbie.
Now, the question is...do you like kitties?
IBTZ
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What’s the matter with you?
Why are you stalking this member from thread to thread and pinging your posse?
And who are you to threaten the member with “Three strikes, you’re out, newbie.” ?
McCain is a moderate. Sarah would not have endorsed him or been his VP if he was a liberal. You’re responses here prove exactly what I was saying about you and the purist mindset. Let me guess, you didn’t support Scott Brown either?
I think that this comment is correct. McCain is NOT a liberal. He's much worse, in fact: he's a PROGRESSIVE.
Am I not allowed to view other FReepers' posting histories if the need arises?
Or maybe you would prefer that I generate a new FReepmail message every time I have to communicate with other FReepers who are part of my "posse," eh?
What’s the matter with you?
Why are you stalking this member from thread to thread and pinging your posse?
And who are you to threaten the member with “Three strikes, you’re out, newbie.” ?
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