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.
Sorry, but if Palin still plans to go through with her little trip to AZ to help McCain’s re-election plan, even after hearing his recent comments about wanting to work with the Dems on HCR, and amnesty for illegals...I’M DONE SUPPORTING HER!
And please, don’t anybody feed me this hot steaming pile of SH** that she’s “just being a loyal to McCain!” Sorry, but her loyalty should go first to her country...not some back-stabbing RINO who constantly screws his own party!
Do this Sarah, and I’m through supporting you!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE!
>>BTTT, it’s time to declare WAR on Mr. Bi-party phony McShame
When Obama was forced to focus upon the economy and drop Iraq because of the success of the surge, the blocking move was Penny Pritzker.
My guess is McWeevil couldn’t go after Pritzker because he still has strings from the Keating mess tied around his ankles.
Whatever the reason, FAIL. If the guy ever had an edge he’s lost it. He should quit now before he becomes the G.O.P.’s relic version of Teddy Kennedy - and further destroys this American Republic in the process.
Next!
Yep, we are!
Unfortunately McCain has a strong brand in the Northeast as a national Republican leader who is “moderate” because he’s not a hard-core, social conservative wacko. That’s the same model of any Republicans who have made it to the statewide or congressional-district level in New England over the past several decades. The specifics of where and how McCain goes mavericky almost don’t matter to them as long as he’s not lockstep with the Evil Republican stereotype.
McCain is part of the cabal that hijacked the GOP decades ago. That’s one of the reasons why the Tea Parties rose to prominence in the 1st place!
Yep, and it was largely blue states that gave him the presidential primary victory last year. And it might not hurt to remember that Juan is really not from Arizona, but from all over as he was from a Navy family of longstanding.
Good points.
What about Chris Simcox, who is already a candidate?
Mccains wife also supports abortion doesn’t she?
> Why would Palin and Brown agree to work to re/elect McCain?
Glenn Beck asked her that this morning on his show.
Her answer was that on certain important issues, chiefly
defeating ObamaCare, he’s an important ally.
Now that ObamaCare is temporarily beaten, it’s still to be
seen if such a verdict still applies.
Then again, perhaps in Sarah’s opinion, she feels that
McCain has finally seen the stupidity of dealing with
back-stabbing Liberals, even his friends in the Senate.
I voted for John McCain. The alternative was 1000% unacceptable to me. The course of events has protected us for a brief time. I do not regret my vote as I don’t like to gamble. I will not support his run against JD Hayworth. It is very difficult to keep up with the climate of politics. I am glad that the fillibuster is back and sits in its rightful place. The democrats should be punished for their closed door meetings and exclusion of the people. They shall pay dearly.
“And I heard a short clip that Brown actually said that he models his politics the same as McCain.”
I came across this on Brown. It looks like he hasn’t developed full positions on some issues, probably not uncommon for someone who’s been in a state legislature:
A mixed bag, but still fantastic coming from Massachusetts.
You’re welcome. It was an honor to vote in proxy for you, your state, and the 48 other states against an out of control tyranny in DC. Now we all must defeat McDemocrat in the primary. Go AZ voters!
If Hayworth does not run then I vote for Simcox. Hayworth is the best bet to rid us of McCain, that’s why McCain is running ads against Hayworth , before he’s even announced, on Hayworth’s radio show no less ! Not only that but because of McCain’s stinking unconstitutional law Hayworth can’t fight back. I’d be in Hayworth’s corner for that alone.
Yes, there have been dramatic events in politics this week, and still two days more to go. It'll take some time to see where we stand after Massachusetts, then the apparent collapse of Obamacare, and now Juan McCain's maneuvers, and Sarah's ill advised move.
I wish Hayworth would declare soon, but I bet he needs to keep his radio job for a time longer. I don't think he's independently wealthy.
JD needs to request a money bomb ala Brown. Maybe Juan will get the hint and retire.
McCain's wife was also a big Hillary supporter around the turn of the millennium.
I wish I could vote against McCain again.
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