ONE of the 7 seats we will get back come November!
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.
How much can he gain when as we speak his wife and daughter are out stumping and posing for queer marriage?
NO RINOS IN THE TEA PARTY!!!!
Great post/thread. Thanks to all lining up against McRINO!
(I gave you my vote, now do me a favor and just go away, John.)
Lefty horseshit!
The Tea party has nothing to do with the Rino Geriatric Party! See my Profile.
Brown stated some positions in the campaign that are the opposite of Juan: against cap and trade, and for enhanced interrogation. I think he opposed amnesty, but am not positive. He's a RINO, but not one of the worst.
But Brown is still a miracle being from Massachusetts, and more than we could have hoped for only a few weeks ago.
Disappointing to hear him praise Juan, but he's still a vast, vast improvement over Teddy and what Coakley would have been.
Great post and I knew there was going to be a full-court press by the repubs to co-opt the Tea Party. We’re on to them though and recognize the co-option may very well come in the form of a skirt. We’re not buy it though...we won’t be played by a pretty face.
Up until this moment I did not know McCain was opening supporting Crist.
If Sarah Palin doesn’t support Marco Rubin in Florida, she is no Tea Party leader, period. End of Story — and I am a long-time grassroot Republican, and very strong Sarah Palin supporter.
ex animo
davidfarrar
I loathe McCain and I’m extremely annoyed at Palin for agreeing to support that POS.
It'd be fun to show up at rallies with Hayworth signs.
Just when conservatives get a little victory, McCain goes into aisle crossing, feel the love mode. I wish he would go hug fairies with his wife and daughter. Support Hayworth.
You’re going to have to trust the people of AZ. We know who he is. But JD Hayworth better step up soon.
“When is the deadline for Hayworth to sign up?”
June 2nd, wish it were sooner. The primary election day is August 31st.
http://www.electionprojection.com/2010elections/statepages/az10.php
If this idiot won't go silently into the night, he needs to be encouraged and led. His time is past. We Conservatives do not need or want a demmicrat approved spokesman.
And we also have today’s SCOTUS decision that essentially emasculates McCain-Feingold.
Seriously, these articles are not really "breaking news" worthy. They're just ordinary "news" IMO.
ONE of the 7 seats we will get back come November!
Palin's a big girl. She should be savvy enough to know that promoting McCain is not a smart move. If she doesn't know this, then its just as well she's no longer Governor. If she does know this, but promotes McCain anyway, then its just as well she's no longer Governor.
Relax folks!
Give Sarah a little more credit, she has a conservative pedigree, that’s why she got into trouble withe is the McCain camp. She is in the uncomfortable position of having to accommodate Juan McAnus since he brought her to the national level. This is a pragmatic move which is requisite, unfortunately. As long as she does not overdo it she is fine. It is up to the Tea Party folks in Arizona to make this right.
I left that state 3 years ago and returned to Texas.
She is coming here next month to campaign in the governor’s race for Perry, not Hutchison. Had she gone for her or if she goes for Crist, that is another matter.
Same deal for Brown. McCain gave him support, he simply made a courtesy call.
I want McCain out. And Hayworth is the man to do it. And there is no better time than the present. I even contributed to his campain in 2006. The campaign against McCain, and all Rinos for that matter needs to be a concerted effort on a national level as it was with Scott Brown. Let’s face it, he nationalized a campaign. Brilliant move which needs to be duplicated.
If all of the middle east can shape the general election with their dinars in Obama’s coffers, we can do the same for conservative candidates nationwide.
Put a litmus test on them and make them sign it with agreement to a list of demands. If they agree to vote conservative, they get our money. Worked with Scott, and it can work for the rest.
What do you think?
I agree completely- If she's that completely stupid, she loses me. I don't do facebook, but everyone here on FR that does needs to clue her in....
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