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.
Everyone here is outraged that Sarah has endorsed and will campaign for McCain. After giving it some thought, I really think this is her first move towards the presidency in 2012. McCain wields considerable power in the GOP and if she wants the nomination she can’t dis him.
If Sarah were to come out opposing him, I think we would wind up with another Romney or some other weak, not a snowballs chance in hell of winning candidate and another four years of Obama.
I agree with you. McCain’s going to run in 2012.
Maybe he’ll announce his candidacy on Letterman again... Dave can squeeze it in between Palin jokes.
“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. “
Thank you, Michelle Malkin!
I can’t agree. Sarah Palin was seen as an outsider and anti-establishment. Endorsing McCain smacks directly against her “Going Rogue” image. I am not saying I won’t support Palin during the primaries, but I can’t overlook this.
“Palin and Brown are caught between a rock and a hard place. If they return the favor and help him, they get labeled sellouts here. If they snub him, the MSM label them traitors. The uninformed(who are most of the people)still listen to what the media say. Which scenario is worse?”
When caught between that ‘rock and hard place’, the only right thing to do is what is right for the country. And THAT is NOT John McCain.
Look AuntB, it’s my ol’ ugly mutt on TV, and THIS time he’s callin’ himself ‘McCain’ !!! Imagine that?!? ;)
Personally I am loyal to conservative values not people who say they are conservative yet perform like a liberal or moderate socialist. Be they someone we chose yesterday by accident or someone we choose tomorrow on purpose if they stray from conservative values we are not obligated to keep supporting them or staying quiet about their performance.
..... Thus the reason I vote on ones record versus ones promises. Anything less is IMHO a risky bet at best. Such as the lesser of two evils concepts we are usually presented during an election. No polidiot is perfect, no polidiot deserves blind silent devotion. Politics has a human element as we all know and is fallible to the nth degree. Constant attention to it’s every act is the effort that must be maintained to preserve our beloved republic and liberty.
Just my opinion of course.
Stay safe !
Doesn't "Rogue" sound an awful lot like "Maverick" (McCain's brand) to you? Because it does to me. I suspect that both brands came from the same PR firm.
Debra medina seems like a great candidate to support. Perry has been governor for too long, he has forgotten what the constituents really want a governor that will listen.Why not elect someone new tot he position of governor?
Why, yes. Yes, I believe you do. Except for when you signed up on FR and made a deliberate choice to spell her name wrong. I'm sure you'll understand that looks....odd. As does your intentionally awful spelling in the beginning of this thread, followed by nearly perfect spelling later in the thread. Sock puppets bug the heck out of me, and I think I've figured out who's pulling your string. It's a cheap ploy and unworthy of such a long-standing member of FR. Still obsessed with arson and Sarah's feet, are you?
“If the Tea Party rejects Sarah, I and millions of others will reject the Tea Party. 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.”
For months I have bene saying that the messiah worship of Palin would lead to a “Puma” like revolt if she was ever rejected. Because of that opinion I have been subjected to the most vile, profane and nasty attacks from the Palinistas.
Most of my predictins have come true and here is just one more. This is the danger of elevating ANY politician to a level above criticism. The worship of Palin isn’t about conservtive principles, it’s about Sarah, or more concisely, the IMAGE of what Sarah represents to these people.
I go into that “image” but I don’t want to get banned.
“I admire Sarah, who again unapologetically demonstrates her convictions, which do not include revenge.”
Palin is one of the most revengeful politicians I’ve seen.
That’s why I call her the rights hillary CLinton.
Why, yes. Your prediction has manifest itself in the form of a one-dimensional cartoonish troll. Imagine that!
Yep, point made.
Would you like to debate Palin’s “revengeful” nature?
We could start with her firing every Wasilla City administrator that didn’t vote for her, then move on to her firing her longtime Wasilla friend and campaign manager because he had the audacity to date the ex-wife of one of Todd’s personal friends (they later married) then move on to the trailer park scandal of them trying to get the ex-husband of Todd’s sister (admittedly trailer park trash) fired from his Trooper position in the middle of their divorce/custody hearings while at the same time successfully getting his workmans comp benefits slashed.
Remember the jokes we made about Billy Carter and the pecodillos of Bill Clinton in Arkansas? Double them and you have the Palin clan. A Palin presidency will be an endless revisit of “Judge Judy”.
And I haven’t even started on Levi Johnston...heheh. I love the image of an American President slopping it out in court with some early twenties, Playgirl posing trailer park trash who knocked up their teenage daughter.
Why Palin didn’t “go rogue” on Levi’s ass from the start is what bewilders me. If Palin can’t even control her own household how do we expect her to stand up to the worst dims and Osama Bin Laden?
Palin was good at going after members of her own team when it meant election success but didn’t do so well with the third string back bencher dims in Alaska. All they had to do was file a few worthless ethics complaints and Palin went packing quicker than you can say “she’s not quitting, she’s reloading”.
Ronald Reagan-like my ass.
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