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.
The Tea Party won’t stand at all if it alienates Palin’s supporters. I’m beginning to think the whole movement is just another ruse bankrolled by Soros to try to split the conservative movement! (I'd give that a 20% probability) I agree with this message
“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 “
Shut up you right wing tea party extremist, you!
\sniff..... ;-)
the McStain...and a blight on Gov. Palin's record that needs to be (but eventually WILL be) erased.
You are a RINO. You call us right wing extremists, just because we won;’t support McCain? McCain is a one man wrecking crew on everything conservatives hold dear.
“How is she being used if she’s going along with it? “
Because she has no option, if asked to support him. If she declines, she looks like the most ungracious person on Earth and STILL loses. So, he’s using her because he knows she can’t say “no.”
“You Palin haters always compare Sarah to a prostitute when she stands on her own. You are a bunch of woman bashers.”
Woman bashers?
This alone tells me you are a troll.
I LOVE Michelle Malkin. If she ever ran for public office I would walk over hot coals to help her win.
Is Michelle a woman hater too?
Now now, don’t go confusing the troll with logic when she has none of her own.
“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? “
We ALL know about that lawyer DNC plant in Florida, and it has nothing to do with the discussion here.
You made 2 big mistakes.
1) You suggested that tea party people were being taken over by “RIGHT WING WACKOS”
2) You called FReepers “WOMAN HATERS” if they were angry at Palin for bucking up scumbag traitor McCain
You are NOT a conservative, but you ARE a disruptor.
That part would be good enough. No real need for homo part of it.
Palin has, apparently, decided to start playing the game. I have a feeling she feels the need, or has been convinced that there is a need for her, to ingratiate herself with the GOP establishment. Frankly, after this I don't want to support her for any office. We'll see.
“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.”
Winner!
I did not say that. I like the RNC picks in NH and CO. The worst GOP candidate in the race is not worth our support, in the case of Florida and AZ they want to nominate Crist and McCain. If you support Rubio over Crist why in the world would want McCain over Hayworth? Crist and McCain are very similar.
Did you support Scott Brown?
Yes. And what does that have to do win this?
McCain is far from perfect, but that is no reason not to support him now like we did in 2008,
If JD Hayworth runs there sure is, THERE WOULD BE SOMEONE BETTER IN THE RACE. Duh. McLame is not entitled to support. Remember we are talking about the primary here. It's not McCain versus a rat it's McCain versus a conservative Republican.
Did it ever occur to you that Sarah has more knowledge of the situation than you or I?
Still presuming she just must! be right. No I don't consider that an option. From a conservative perspective she should be urging Hayworth to run not endorsing McCain, that's a no-brainier. I also maintain that I have a better take on bailouts than ex-President Bush did because despite his superior education and experience compared to me to his stance was obviously wrong. (ain't I arrogant for a peon)
She either A)Does not have superior knowledge of the situation B)Is backing McCain purely out of loyalty even though she knows Hayworth would be better. Or there's a possible C)She's not as conservative as we think. I don't think it's C.
Whatever the reason, enabling McCain is a mistake. If you don't think it is I don't know what to say.
We don't need to and shouldn't support every move Palin might make even it's the wrong one. Don't feel you must. You can think she's not perfect and doesn't always make the right decision and still support her.
Of course she does. She gets it from above just like GWB did.
And it was Sarah's facebook message that got all those MA liberals to vote for Brown. She killed Health Reform twice, once with 'death panels' and a second time with Brown. No human could do this alone unless they were being guided (wink, wink)
Those that deny that it was Sarah's message that won the MA Coakley/Brown senate race are ‘Palin deniers’ and are either liberal trolls or Romneybots! Only one force could have got the liberals in MA to elect Brown, Sarah!
The plan is president Palin will get illegals to vote for Republicans after she legalizes them(McCain will be her chief of staff). She did it in MA Senate race and will do it with illegals.
Even a RINO like Perry is preferable to a 'rat. As I have said before, I could handle Sarah's support of Juan McLame if he were running against a 'rat (but not against a better republican). Unfortunately in the Texas Governor race, we don't have a better candidate who is viable.
LOL! I share your disdain for both them.
Palin allowing it is even more disgusting......I’m losing the respect and admiration I have for her.....What happened to “Rogue” and bucking the rino system?......
If Palin campaigns against Hayworth for this RINO fossil I'm done with her. That would be a tragedy but if she hasn't got more integrity than to support this old fool I have no use for her.
Not only is she going through with her support for Queeg, she's doubling down and reaffirming that support emphatically.
Sarah just crossed her very own bridge to nowhere. And she did it willingly.
I truly believe that Palin is actually telling McCain that she will support him as long as he continues to stand up against Obama and not try to compromise with him.
I think this is a smart move personally.
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