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.
JD has nationwide support. I know, his uphill is about as level as it will ever get. He is a smart conservative that can throw all of his support behind Arpaio and explain why. He has a chance to move up. It’s up to him.
According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization"....--KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov
John McCain's Wife and Daughter Pose for Photos to Support Same-Sex Marriage21-January-2010
sorry bad grammar :(
this is what happens when you attend a public school
100% true, but I don't know the timing of such things, whether he can raise some funds before he declares his candidacy, etc. But I bet he'd raise a lot, maybe millions in a few days if he got enough publicity nationwide. And his radio job complicates things as I think he'd have to resign as soon as he declared.
There are "exploratory organizations" that prospective presidential candidates can set up and raise some money, but I don't know if prospective senatorial candidates can, also.
The look in the elephant's eyesis priceless.
I've chosen to stop supporting GOP and RNC “organizations”, and instead work/support individuals who represent conservative values. . . . where ever in the country they are running.
I'll give her a pass this time on McCain, but only because I believe he may have come to his senses after Monday. But l'lll have to see the evidence.
The “Money Bomb” was 7 days late. Believe me it started long before “anyone” was aware. My only point is the “people” were well ahead of the curve
John McCain's Wife and Daughter Pose for Photos to Support Same-Sex Marriage21-January-2010
If McCain looses the primary, Palin’s ‘debt’ has been paid and she can campaign hard for JD.
Hayworth was very gracious on the radio [according to a fellow freeper] and stated he understood her loyalty and if he wins the primary, he hoped she’d campaign for him.
Palin’s words are interesting; describing McCain as a ‘hero and statesman.’ Both true, but no mention of ‘Common sense conservative’ and McCain in the same sentence.
IMO, Sarah keeps it truthful, if subtle.
If she wants to “payback” McCain so be it. The voters decide now.
What Money Bomb? Brown's, or are you saying that some money has already been raised for J. D.?
Yes. I think you’re absolutely right. If and when JD can win the primary, she’ll back him.
That’s right, I forgot..though I haven’t at all forgotten about Hillary.
She sure is waiting behind the scenes,though I doubt simply waiting, and does not want to associate with Bo anymore than she has to. I do believe she’ll run again.
This IS happening!
In the AZ-8 Congressional race Senator McCain has recruited AZ State Senator Jonathan Paton, a RINO with a "Friend of Big Government" rating from Project Vote Smart and a C rating from the Goldwater Institute, to enter the Republican primary. As many of you know, my son-in-law, Jesse Kelly (a TRUE Tea Party supporter and TRUE Conservative candidate) has been in the race since last April.
I still believe that Jesse will win but it will now require expending resources in the primary that could have been used to defeat the incumbent dem. Giffords.
Candidates like Jesse need our support!
I have been neither a big fan nor a big detractor for Sarah Palin, but I thought she was at least a breath of fresh air who might hold out some hope for the conservative movement.
Even before this latest move on her part, however, she has recently done a few things that have me wondering about her motives and real agenda.
This endorsement of McCain is either incredibly stupid, incredibly tone deaf, or an incredible revelation of her true stripes. Either way, she has no clue that this movement transcends even the most charismatic individuals, and will jetison them at a moment’s notice if they betray the core principles.
She’s lost my respect. Can any of you Palin fans tell me WTF she’s doing, and why?
JD will not get the support until he gets his butt out there. It’s all or nothing. If Arizona will support him he will go. I think they will as many are hurting there under this BS administration. He MUST dive in head first! JD are you listening?
>>‘hero and statesman.’
So were Vladimir Lenin and Ho Chi Minh.
I really thought this sort of political prostitution was beneath the establishment-bucking Palin - BUT, we see what we see.
Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on me...
Next!
Good comments. If Hayworth enters and gets traction, the people should drive the election, regardless of Palin's endorsement. McCain gets retired; Palin gets off the hook. "The people have spoken."
Supporting Michele Bachmann is a win-win. Perry in TX, that's a wash unless there were a real chance of a real conservative. Kay needs to go away.
If Sarah continues to support RINOs after McCain, SarahPAC is going to take the same kind of devastating hit that the RNC has experienced (down to less than a third of previous receipts).
I think I really hope that you are right. If she is supporting Perry that is indeed a good sign. I’l pray for Sarah Palin and I pray for our country.
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