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.
I see it as a sort of split responsibility, where my role is TINY. I'm not responsible to "get elected." It's up the candidate to present positions and promises that will attract sufficient votes.
McCain is unacceptable to me. Obviously, he has supporters - but I'm not one of them.
Did you write-in Sarah’s name or did you vote for the McCain and Palin ticket?
Actually, yes.
Arizona will determine this race. Is J.D. Hayworth a candidate?
Yet you slam Sarah for endorsing McCain.
Reposted for you AGAIN, since you couldn’t read it the first OR SECOND time:
I voted for Governor Palin. Why do you support a traitor who backstabbed her and her family and helped elect Zero ?
GO HAYWORTH !
I agree, screw Arizona, they don't deserve a better Senator than the RNC favorite, unlike Florida.
Let's give all McCain a hug. If Sarah Palin supports him he must be great, it's not like she'll fallible or anything right Sararhbarruda?
He's a great man, that unconstitutional legislation the court struck down yesterday, that was his baby.
And remember how valiantly he fought against Obama? Taking no quarter, standing with the people against the bailouts. Oh wait...nm he acted like he wanted to lose. But of course he was just being "honorable".
I have plenty of other nice things to say about John but I have to cut this short. My screen is flashing "warning sarcasm overload", what a weird error, I better reset the system.
No, you didn’t answer the key part of the first paragraph. You totally ignored it. I’ll repost it for you so you can answer it:
“Don’t you think it’s appalling she is expected to endorse the man who has badmouthed her and insinuated she is an extremist and “lost him the election” and the double-standard it sets ? Still McCain’s minions go out on tv (like Steve Schmidt) and gang-rape Gov. Palin on 60 Minutes in front of the whole world, and she is continued to expect to show eternal fealty to this traitorous scum who went out of his way to lose to his good friend, the Marxist Zero.”
So you believe McCain has no bearing on the nation as a whole and only exclusively has impact on Arizona ?
I asked you if you will be supporting the Conservative opponent of McCain or will you be supporting the traitor to the cause of Conservatism ? I didn’t ASK you if you’ll vote for him, as you are a resident of California, I ask if you SUPPORT him. Please answer the question.
And Mr. Hayworth has not officially declared as of yet, but will be expected to announce his decision shortly. We are doing all we can here at FR to facilitate his entry into the race to remove McCain from office after three decades of despicable service to this country in Congress.
Well, here are my personal beliefs. I am pro (heterosexual) marriage, pro life, pro limited government, pro law enforcement, pro military, and pro gun just for starters. Any of those deal breakers?
Yeah and Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska. Your point?
So you finally acknowledge John McCain is a traitor. It surely took you long enough. I hope you will be supporting J.D. Hayworth when he enters the race officially and we can remove that cancer at long last from the Senate and elect a REAL Conservative for a change.
Can only hope so but he needs to clarify if he still feels as supportive of Mitt Romney as he did when he formally endorsed Romney for his Presidential run in 2008. If DeMint doesn’t run he may break for Mitt against Palin.
I reject that. Sometimes neither choice is "better," both choices suck. Hitler or Mao, pick one. What would you have to drink, Hemlock or Sulfuric Acid? Not saying McCain is remotely close to a killer despot, just that I don't have to endorse or support (with a vote) a candidate that I personally find unacceptable. It's called "freedom." McCain is an addled, corrupt, lying skunk.
....and appointed a pro-choice judge for the supreme court in Alaska.
Are you suggesting that she had control over which judges where presented to her?
My point is no one is perfect. We can’t get everything we want in a candidate. We have to compromise at times.
Hey, here’s a thought, how about supporting someone who didn’t sell out his party and his country to a Marxist buffoon of undocumented origin ? I mean, gee whiz, is THAT too much to ask of a REPUBLICAN candidate ?
No argument there. I like Sarah too., but I think there are more desireable candidates out there now. I also question her motives or strategy in the past year. leaving office, cable new network pundit. She is acting more like a retired politican than a candidate, and it shows in polling even among conservatives.
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