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.

[Sarabaracuda]

McCain is a moderate not a liberal.

Sarah knows more about what's going on behind the scenes than we do. She has shown herself to be wise so far, so I will trust her on this now.

McCain is a member of the Republican party so therefore he is a Republican. Arguing otherwise, regardless of his ideological stances, is ludicrous.

So where exactly do you draw the line at who you will lend support to? What policies must a politician advocate for him to be good enough for you?

We are not going to return to founding principles overnight. It took decades to arrive where we are and it will take a long time to get back. Unfortunately, that means compromising on certain principles in the short term. How else do you plan to get anywhere?

Most conservatives here and elsewhere are not 1%-percenters like you and the few others here trying to stir up trouble.

There are plenty of other seats that can be won by conservatives, Mark Rubio in Florida for instance.

[mkjessup]

Don’t try to face down a 44 magnum with a target pistol firing blanks.

You’re way out of your league troll.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. We’ve got the makings of another Bush-Bot syndrome around here.

[mkjessup]

God help us all.

[fieldmarshaldj]

McCain has endorsed Crist in Florida. So by your reckoning, we must support Crist. You support Rubio, you’re going against McCain, and we can’t have that, now can we ? That’s intolerant of “moderates” (sic).

[LomanBill]

You’re welcome FRiend.

[Sarabaracuda]

Uh no. I’m supporting McCain because Sarah is supporting him not because he is supporting himself.

[Sarabaracuda]

If I was then you wouldn’t have to resort to ad hominem attacks and an attempted virtual lynching. You have no manners and no class. You make everything personal instead of debating the issues.

[Sarabaracuda]

So are a sufferer of BDS and now SDS (Sarah Derangement Syndrome)?

[mkjessup]

Uh no. I’m supporting McCain because Sarah is supporting him not because he is supporting himself.

Will you continue to support McCain if a REAL conservative opposes him, i.e., J.D. Hayworth?

If Sarah Palin endorses the Whopper at Burger King, will you eschew Big Macs because of her endorsement?

You're the perfect consumer, if Sarah Palin recommends something you just abandon all your faculties and do what she tells you to do.

Hint: that is liberal behavior, not conservative.

[Sarabaracuda]

So you think the same ill thoughts of Ronald Reagan then?

[DoughtyOne]

l'm not here to dump on you, but your comments are self-destructive.

McCain is a member of the Republican party so therefore he is a Republican. Arguing otherwise, regardless of his ideological stances, is ludicrous.

This comment was asinine to the point of being disturbing. It typifies to a tee what has been wrong with the party for 21 years now. If you've got an (R) you just can't do any wrong.

That's tantamount to saying a preacher who commits murder is not wicked, because he's on Gods team.

You are as wrong as you can be on this.

I'm going to move on because I'm not going to tag team you here. Later.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Madam, you twist yourself more than a pretzel with your rationalizations, and your hypocrisy grows with each post. McCain wants to line Congress with more RINOs/DIABLOs like himself. You cannot support Rubio and McCain at the same time, because they are at cross purposes. McCain wants Crist. Crist is more of the same business as usual liberalism and capitulation to Zero. If you support Rubio, you MUST oppose McCain. McCain is going all out to make sure Rubio is defeated.

You also failed to answer my previous post. Doesn’t that trouble you that you’re endorsing somebody who stuck knives in Governor Palin’s back ? I won’t support the pigs who treated Gov. Palin like garbage, and that includes McCain. If you claim to support Conservatism, you MUST endorse his defeat. Arizona is a Conservative Republican state and demands Conservative Republican representation, not backstabbing liberal weaselry embodied by McCain.

[mkjessup]

If I was then you wouldn’t have to resort to ad hominem attacks and an attempted virtual lynching. You have no manners and no class. You make everything personal instead of debating the issues.

You have no grasp of the issues, anyone who states that McCain is not a liberal when his entire history demonstrates that he praises, condones and ultimately embraces the liberal positions of 'Rats (how else can you explain McCain-Feingold?), is clearly out of touch with reality.

As for ad hominems, I reiterate: you are a troll and trolls should not expect any sort of courtesy to be extended to them. You are a liberal pinata' and lack the skill to even articulate whatever it is you perceive your 'positions' to be. You have yet to define 'conservatism' when challenged to do so, that is because you have no idea what conservatism really is. You signed up in April of last year, and your posts in this thread alone demonstrate that you are nothing but a liberal agitator.

And btw, it's nothing personal. I just think you're an idiot.

[Sarabaracuda]

Arizona is a state which has reelected John McCain for decades.

If McCain is good enough for Sarah, he is good enough for all conservatives.

I'm sorry to hear that you think so little of Sarah's intellect. I trust her judgment.

Obviously Sarah knows something that we don't about the election. I will defer to her judgment.

She obviously does not share your view that McCain "stuck knives in her back". She is in a better position than you or I to know what really happened. I will defer to her judgment.

[mkjessup]

Spoken like a true, mindless cult follower.

Consider contacting any of the many donor organ programs, there is bound to be someone in need of a brain transplant as you are clearly not using the one you have, nor do you show any signs of needing it in the future.

[Sarabaracuda]

Of course I can. The race in Florida is not the same as the one in Arizona.

[RatsDawg]

I wonder if we will see videos of people going to McCain rally’s this year just to see Palin lol.

[LomanBill]

>>Sarah knows more about what's going on behind the scenes than we do

 

Of course Comrade SaraParrotfish.  Pesky proles, always believing only what they see with their own eyes and trying to think for themselves.  They simply don't understand that this farm could not run without the elite wisdom and leadership provided by The Inner Party.

 

Those who resist the benefit of The Inner Party's wisdom must be reeducated for the good of the collective.  Everybody knows what's in Room 101.

 

[Sarabaracuda]

I will not report your beligerent postings to me so as to allow the decent Freepers viewing this a chance to see how you purists treat those who disagree with you.