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.
This article is a great call to action, full of valuable information.
It would be a mistake to make McCain’s campaign a referendum on Palin at this point in time. That would be unnecessarily divisive and distracting. and it appears to me that there are already a couple of suspicious posters around trying to engineer exactly that. We don’t even know if Sarah’s going to run in 2012, and there will be time yet to deal with the Palin Problem, if in fact there even is one. In either case, that’s an argument we don’t need to have today.
In the meantime, if we don’t get rid of McCain once and for all, he’s an immediate and very serious threat to the conservative movement. J.D. Hayworth needs to declare his candidacy SOON so that all concerned factions can throw nationwide support behind him the way we did for Brown. For me, that sounds like the first logical order of business. Secondly, it sounds like there are good conservative candidates in Florida, Colorado and California who need some $upport to deal with McCain’s machinations and his desperation to destroy and demoralize the Tea Party.
Thanx for putting that web addy in your tagline. I just joined. :-)
...who supported al-Qaeda terrorists in Kosovo and Albania during the Kosovo intervention under Clinton, allowing them to procure arms, conduct fundraising, and gain U.S. support for their acts of terror against innocent Serbs in Kosovo?
...who authored multiple devastating bills, including amnesty for illegals (McCain-Kennedy), campaign finance "reform" (McCain-Feingold), and cap-and-trade (McCain-Lieberman-Warner), that are decidedly NOT conservative?
...who once called conservatives a bunch of "a**holes"?
...who supported shutting down the terrorist detention facilities at the Gitmo naval station, the same position that was held by those e-e-e-e-vil Dems?
...who took bribes and kickbacks from Charles Keating during the 1980s Savings and Loan crisis in exchange for protecting Keating's financial institution, which was later bailed out by the U.S. taxpayer?
...who joined with John Kerry in the early 1990s to shut down further investigation into the whereabouts of Vietnam POWs and MIAs, effectively throwing them to the wolves in order to "normalize" economic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam?
...who in 2004 not only considered running alongside John Kerry on the Democrat ticket but also endorsed the Democrat Party as "a fine party" and said that he had "no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy"?
...who in 2008 endorsed Obama--calling him "a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States"--and then threw the election to Obama as he voted "YES!" to a grande-sized Socialist bailout of corrupt New York bankers?
If that's the a-hole you want to defend, by all means, go for it. Your time on FR will most likely be very very short, though.
I love Sarah. But I'd rather stick my pecker in a blender than support the RINO menace that gave us Zero. He is an abomination and insult to EVERY person who believes in Conservatism, and I will support the person who seeks to defeat him 100%. 28 years in DC is long enough. GO HAYWORTH !
Bob Dole stuck an iron bar in the wheels of progress after the conservative victory in 94.
Clinton should have been impeached!
McCain gives reach-arounds to socialists.....he needs to be unseated. There should be NOOO comprimises on health care! Keep government the hell out!!
He doesn't just give reach-arounds to Socialists...he IS a Socialist.
What else do you think that bailout he helped to engineer last fall was?
He WAS impeached. He just wasn't removed from office.
Too many cowards/hypocrites in suits.
Oh, I'm sorry, I also forgot to include the parts where he took Soros money and where he stood up in front of a crowd of ACORN and SEIU activists in South Florida in 2006 and told them that they were "what makes America special."
Look on YouTube.
There's ample video and photographic evidence.
McCain is an ACORNista and a Soros stooge just like Obama.
McCain, pack yer bags.
Conservatives have a choice in TX: Vote Debra Medina.
Good God. Do you believe this crap you write? Given your screen name, I’d say you’re throwing everything you have behind McCain b/c Sarah is campaigning for him. That’s NOT a good reason.
Political endorsements are political endorsements, not a substitute for using your head.
You might think someone with that screen name would know how to spell Sarah. I’d sure think so.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Rom 1:25-29
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
*Ping to #134*
Somebody with your misspelled screenname is giving you a bad name on here...
No thankds. Medina is Ron Paul’s candidate. A vote for her is a vote for Hutchinson.
Keep electing cretins like RINO/DIABLO McCain, madam, and I assure you the number of Republicans in Congress under their MIS-leadership could caucus in a phone booth.
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