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.

[mkjessup]

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

You don't speak for millions of others, troll. You speak for yourself and your little stuffed animals that sit on top of your monitor.

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.

Do you worship the Constitution of the United States with the same fervent sentiments you display for Sarah Palin?

I doubt it.

[Sarabaracuda]

I know how to spell Sarah. Other than a possibly a few typos, I have always spelled her name correctly. How petty.

[rabscuttle385]

one has to make compromises

Like cuddling al-Qaeda terrorists and drug/human smugglers, giving in to Dems repeatedly, worshiping Teddy Kennedy, taking Soros money, and hanging out with ACORN/SEIU?

[mkjessup]

The Tea Party won’t stand at all if it alienates Palin’s supporters.

Don't kid yourself, Sarah is doing a fine job of that herself with her support of John McRINO.

I’m beginning to think

That would be a refreshing development.

the whole movement is just a ruse bankrolled by liberals to try to split the conservative movement.

Your ignorance knows no bounds.

[Sarabaracuda]

I do not worship anyone. I am getting tired of you lame attempts at comparing me to Obamatons. I highly respect both Sarah and the Constitution, but I, like all sane conservatives realize that we can’t get everything we want, and compromise in politics is inevitable. How would we make any progress if we refuse to work with those who do not share all our beliefs.

[mkjessup]

McCain is not a liberal.

And you are deranged.

Thanks for revealing your true colors, TROLL!!!

[mkjessup]

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.” ?

When the n00b reveals themselves to be a liberal troll by stating that "McCain is not a liberal", it is a foregone conclusion that they won't be around too much longer.

You don't think McCain is a liberal do you?

No, I didn't think so.

[Sarabaracuda]

There have been posters on here frothing at the mouth even before Sarah officially endorsed McCain who are now trying to drive a wedge between conservatives with this. If they are successful, they will succeed only in destroying the GOP's chances in November. Do you want two more years of Democrat rule?

Oh does it? I saw here on FR just the other day about a Democrat starting up a Tea Party party in Florida no doubt to split the conservative vote in November. So who is ignorant?

[DoughtyOne]

McCain is not a liberal.

Are you saying these are the people Conservatives hang with and these are the things Conservatives do?

http://www.hotr.us/mccain/mccainagain.html

I don't see any actual Conservatives co-authoring legislation with Russel Feingold, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy. Perhaps you do.

Sarah is supporting him and so should conservatives.

Sarah is doing this at the risk of her own reputation. It may surprise you that when Sarah was on the Beck show last week, she agreed McCain was a progressive. None the less it looks like she's going to support him. Here's a question you may want to contemplate. If Sarah becomes president, does she adopt his agenda or does he adopt hers? If she sticks to her's, John will more than likely oppose her on a numbers of issues.

So not only is it destructive to the nation for her to back him, it very easily could turn out to be self-destructive to her potential first term in office. Good idea? Absolutely not!

McCain is a Republican no matter what you say.

John has an "R" after his name. That does not make him a Republican. He is a RINO.

You purists are not representative of the conservative movement.

Just remember this. If John McCain is a Conservative, then there is no Conservative movement in the conventional sense.

You are a tiny, alienated and increasingly bitter fringe who lash out at whoever does not support your idea of purity.

So what you are saying is that we shouldn't strive to return to our founding principles. Joining with the most leftist of Democrats is no way to do that. What you are saying in effect is that we should join with people like Feingold, Kerry, and Kennedy. Sorry. No sale.

You have no power and you never will because you drive away any and all who don’t agree with you 100%.

Good. I should hope so. This is a forum that promotes true Conservatives.

Have fun in the wilderness.

Is this forum your idea of political wilderness? Good to know.

Meanwhile, rational conservatives will take back the GOP and send the Rats packing in November.

The problem is, John McCain is the party right now. He was it's presidential candidate. So I'm baffled as to why you think the party needs to be taken back. If you like McCain, there's no need for any change whatsoever.

[mkjessup]

I do not worship anyone.

Yes you do, and your pathetic praise-posts of Sarah Palin demonstrate that all throughout this thread.

but I, like all sane conservatives

No sane conservative would state that John McCain is NOT a liberal, and you're on the record for doing so. You are no conservative, you are a liberal troll.

[Sarabaracuda]

Supporting a moderate worked in Mass didn’t it? Are you saying conservatives shouldn’t supported Brown?

[Sarabaracuda]

The vast majority of Freepers and conservatives supported McCain and Sarah just a little over a year ago. He obviously wasn’t too liberal for them. So why are you singling me out?

[mkjessup]

There have been posters on here frothing at the mouth even before Sarah officially endorsed McCain

That would suggest that such posters were highly perceptive about what was coming down the pike so far as Sarah endorsing a RINO like McCain. She has done herself no favor with conservatives who have supported her.

Do you want two more years of Democrat rule?

No, that is why I do NOT support the liberal RINO McCain. McCain being re-elected is no different than sending a 'Rat to the Senate.

Oh does it? I saw here on FR just the other day about a Democrat starting up a Tea Party party in Florida no doubt to split the conservative vote in November. So who is ignorant?

You are. You're an ignorant, liberal troll. Provide the link to the story you cite, that's one of your troll-tricks, so roll over and go fetch.

[Sarabaracuda]

You do realize that McCain has an ACU rating of 80, right? That’s pretty conservative.

[mkjessup]

The vast majority of Freepers and conservatives supported McCain and Sarah just a little over a year ago. He obviously wasn’t too liberal for them. So why are you singling me out?

a.) They were voting AGAINST 0bama (and FOR Sarah Palin).

b.) He was too liberal then, and he's still too liberal now, but in November 2008 he was all the GOP was able to cough up (like a cat hacking up a hairball) and he threw the election anyway.

As for singling you out?

You're a liberal disrupter, you've stated that McCain is NOT a liberal, and that alone demonstrates that you are a troll.

[mkjessup]

You do realize that McCain has an ACU rating of 80, right? That’s pretty conservative.

That has all the worth of an old AAA symbol on the sign of a motel along the highway emblazoned with 'sanitized for your protection'.

Nice try.

[rabscuttle385]

You do realize that McCain has an ACU rating of 80, right? That’s pretty conservative.

It's also horsepuckey compared to the verifiable, evidenced record of McCain's that I presented at posts 143 and 148.

[mkjessup]

I salute you Sir, you have thoroughly exploded that troll with the skill of a professional munitions expert.

[LomanBill]

>>John is the one up for reelection not his wife or daughter.

 

His wife and offspring's antics are a reflection of the man's ability to effectively head his household; and of the moral values that were/are taught there.

 

If THAT's the state of affairs in the McCain House, I surely don't want to experience what he'd manage to do with the White House.

 

 

 

Now, given the policital super-genius of your two heroes - why, between the two of them, couldn't they fire enough dendrites to figure out that Penny Pritzker was the soft spot in Obama's strategic economic underbelly, HMMMMM?

 

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

Next!

[fieldmarshaldj]

First of all, its your embarrassing and insulting comments about McCain that have led many here to conclude you’re trolling. Is Arizona Massachusetts ? Arizona is a heavily Republican and CONSERVATIVE state.

Why should Arizona continue to elect a backstabbing weasel who HATES Conservatives, derides and blockades their agenda, and somebody who decided not to bother to run a real race against Zero, but to play the gracious loser and not get in his way of his MARXIST agenda ? Does that sound like someone we should be supporting who has embarrassed himself over the past TWENTY-EIGHT years in Washington ?

The only people McCain ever fights are Conservatives. Frankly, Gov. Palin is being played here. She’s expected to be gracious and kind and show eternal fealty to McCain, though that loyalty is a one-way street. McCain has no loyalty to her, madam, he has absolutely none.

She ought to remain neutral, because McCain’s people certainly had no hesistation to call her “too extreme”/”too divisive”, lie about her and her family, badmouth her all over the place, etc., and had the unmitigated nerve in blaming HER for the ticket’s loss in 2008 instead of the execrable LIBERAL embarrassment heading the ticket.

Doesn’t that trouble you that you’re endorsing somebody who stuck knives in her back ? I won’t support the pigs who treated Gov. Palin like garbage, and that includes McCain. I can’t wait to see his ass defeated. And if you had one iota of respect for Gov. Palin and the position she’s been forced into, you’d want that pig defeated, too.