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.
Hmmmm ..?? That would pretty much do it for me!
So another one that believes polls done by CBS and the MSM.
Truth is Sarah is gaining ground in all categories.
McCain is no conservative. Any Tea Party protester knows it is time for him to go. He has over stayed his welcome and ruined the Republican party. I am Sadden by Palin’s decision to support him. If she feels some pact to help him well I don’t agree because she will not be standing by principals to support him.
Here is why McCain is a rino:
McCain/Feingold: McCain fought for and championed this severe restriction on American’s free speech rights. Instead of preventing soft money from controlling elections, all this bill did was to force issue organizations to get creative with their money. This bill limits the ability of citizens, however organized, to exercise their rights to free speech when it comes to elections, and is known as the Incumbency Protection Act.
McCain/Kennedy: The infamous amnesty legislation which would have allowed millions of illegal aliens to remain, as long as they paid back taxes, a fine, and promised to learn English. This plan was dubbed as shamnesty by Michelle Malkin and for good reason. The Congress tried to pass this bill twice, and both times it went down in defeat.
McCain’s Opposition to the Bush Tax Cuts: McCain aligned himself with liberals like Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd in his opposition to the tax cuts which eventually lead to economic growth the United States experienced before the 07-08 crash after the Democrats took over. McCain used the class warfare language of the Democrats to be against the tax cuts initially. Specifically, he said that they were too expensive and they benefited the rich. His tax cut plan included several increases to business taxes.
McCain’s crusade against Guantanamo: He opposed it being open, favors constitutional rights for terrorists but opposes tough interrogation techniques. He wants to stop water-boarding and does not support most of the tough surveillance and spying techniques used to capture terrorists.
McCain was the Ringleader of the Gang of 14: The Gang of 14 was the term used in describing a bipartisan group of Senators in the 109th United States Congress who successfully negotiated a compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the nuclear option by Republicans over a filibuster by Senate Democrats. Sen. John McCain used it to win more accolades for going against his party.
McCain is not only not a conservative, but he has gone by the title of maverick by stabbing his party in the back.
McCain does not further any conservative principles but instead betrays them. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, a conservative, has said, “I don’t agree with McCain on hardly any issues.”
McCain delights in sticking it to his party while winning those accolades from the mainstream liberal media.
Democrats implored him to switch teams, as a couple of his advisers, frozen out by the right, actually did. But instead of accepting John Kerry’s offer to become his running mate in 2004, McCain embraced Bush’s re-election effort, but then helped Bush go further left and thus Bush went Rino on us too.
In fact, with both Bushes and McCainiacs at the helm of the Republican party the country was sent away from the Reagan conservative principals of the 80s in a way that should have never been allowed.
The Arlen Specter’s of the world in the Republican party are liberal Trojan horses. McCain is more of a progressive in the style of Teddy Roosevelt. A militant, crusading, reformist, and hostile to concentrated power.
Therefore I can argue that McCain is part of the problem in Washington not the solution. Therefore, I do not think this latest move by Palin is a good one. IF she stumps fpr McCain she goes against her principals. I don’t care who owes what to whom. McCain also blew that 2008 election and he even hurt Palin’s chances to help him win. So McCain is the kiss of death. Especially when there will be at least one person against him in the primary in J.D. Hayworth.
We shall see how it goes, but this decision by Palin flies in the face of all she has stood for. I do hope she can change her mind and either stay out of the race or wait till the primary is over. McCain is bound to lose and then what will that do to Palin?
John McCain was a Conservative Saint compared to George W. Bush. Would like to see more people be honest about GWB, and all of his crooked deals with Teddy Kennedy.
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