Posted on 02/07/2008 7:01:12 AM PST by pwatson
Most leading conservative writers, radio hosts, and activists would probably concur that their liberal counterparts have never really connected with average Americans. Personalities on the right sell more books and get higher radio and television ratings. And until recently, conservatives seemed to be on an electoral politics roll begun in 1994 when the GOP retook the House. Within Republican ranks, for all the talk about crack-ups and implosions, the Reagan legacy still bridges divides between libertarians, social and religious conservatives, and national security conservatives.
By comparison, the left often draws flies. Win, lose, or draw, Democrats are prone to eat their own. Post-FDR, the last time that staunch liberals saw their favorite candidate elected president was never. In fact, the only time Democrats actually nominated a candidate who toed the liberal intelli-gentsia's line was 1972. George McGovern, who recently called for President Bush's impeachment (cue applause in Cambridge, Mass.), got 38 percent of the national vote.
But what is true for the liberal goose is true for the conservative gander. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to quip, people are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. John McCain is more conservative on more issues than average Americans are. By every standard measure (voting record and ratings, positions on major issues), McCain is conservative. Unlike his critics on the right, however, he is no ideological purist; he is conservative, but he is not what the pollsters call "very conservative." That is one obvious reason why he has such wide appeal. For even in our decidedly right-leaning mass electorate, few Americans, including few Republicans, answer to "very conservative."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
This is an attempt to marginalize the Conservative Movement. It is part of the plan!
Don’t fall for it. Everyone needs to take a look back at the McCain fantasy.
The Mainstream Media pushes a candidate that will divide the party, citing his ability to “beat Hillary.”
The RINOs fall for it. They get in line. They think the Republican Party must move Left to win.
In the meantime, Conservatives are divided and ignored.
Fear, ignorance and apathy allow McCain to be nominated by a divided party.
The MSM starts calling conservatives “impotent,” even while driving a wedge between conservatives and McCain. The MSM never wanted McCain to be President, they just want him to be the Republican nominee...and lose.
In the end, the Democrat is elected and conservatives are marginalized. Evil conservative talk radio is damaged.
It’s been 10 years in the making. But we’re falling for it.
No, he is merely reporting facts.
The fact is that we have been, and are losing the war for the hearts and minds of the average citizen. We can list all of the reasons that we want, but that won’t change what is. John McCain, as illogical as it seems, is far more conservative than what the average American would admit to because we haven’t sold our ideas to the public since the ‘94 congressional elections.
The Republicans were once the vehicle of the “conservative” movement. Are they any longer?
We are going to hear this crap over and over from the RINOs:
MOVE TO THE LEFT! WE MUST MOVE TO THE LEFT TO WIN!
Meanwhile, the MSM starts hammering McCain and a divided Republican party. The Mindless Middle votes for Hillobama.
Hillobamo wins. Conservatives are marginalized. The RINOs fail. Talk Radio is damaged.
The Liberals Win.
This is what needs to happen: McCain works for CONSERVATIVE votes. Hard.
Conservatism WORKS!
Since 2000: 74.
To quote Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are.”
Speaking of straight talk...
McCain gives us "straight talk" on YouTube: [direct quote]
"Let's have some straight talk...There's a lot of Anti-Americanism
My friends,
one of the things I would do the first day I am President of the United States is close Guantanamo Bay
I would close it and I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth."
Thanks, PurpleMan.
Think about this...
"Wake Up!" It's time to get involved. It's time to vote.
Even bad things happen for a "reason." We must do our best. Read the excerpt from "Wake UP!"
Notice that the emphasis here is on a deliberate rejection,
or as some translations put it, a "willing ignorance."
Thus, it is a deliberate action on a person's part not to believe.
People refuse to believe these things
even when presented with evidence
McChurian is a . . .
constipated, convoluted, conceited, concocted, concretized, concupiscent, condemnable, condensed, condescending, condor-headed, confabulated, confisticatory, conflicted, conflictive, confounded, confrontive, confused, congenitally-deranged, incongruous, conjurer, connected-globalist, consciencousless, consort-of-demons, conspirator, constricted, contaminator, contemptible, contemptuous, contorted, contrary, contradiction, contrived, CONTROLLING,
consummate closet communist contortionist confederate contraceptive conduit coolie . . .
Besides all that, his mother dresses him funny.
If we are so so very close to having our first female president . . . if we are so close to having our first “president of color” (as I herd some “person of color” say recently), then why can’t we be much closer to having a THIRD PARTY president ??
Now I have.
Excellent. Thanks.
Scripture also exhorts us to have nothing to do with an angry man.
In power? All the worse.
I'm very ANGRY!!!,/i>
I'm very ANGRY!!!,
McCain has a better chance of winning if he alienates the right than if he alienates the mushy middle, although he needs both. We can blame as many people as we want, but a candidate running to the right of McCain will appeal to a narrow audience.
Correct, Conservatism is NOT populism.
You are right.
If I read the chart correctly, he got a 72 in 2004
There. Fixed it.
Just because Hill and Obama are liberals, it doesn't mean that Congress will go along with radical liberalism for policy. Hillary's damage will be limited and with a better chance to regain Congress we might actually see progress. remember, we got Welfare reform under Bill Clinton's Congress.
I WILL VOTE AGAINST McCain!!!
Supports amnesty for illegal aliens
Voted twice against Bush’s tax cuts
Has a “C” grade from the NRA
Tried to foist an agenda of liberal judges to the Supreme Court
Supports elimination of Guantanamo for terrorist captives and their removal to the U.S. and the jurisdiction of the liberal American Courts
Oppose harsh interrogation methods for international criminals who are not covered by the Geneva Convention
Opposes the establishment of English as the official language of the U.S.
I could go on and on about this man and his despicable record in Washington. If he represents mainstream America we are in trouble and he’s not getting my vote. A Democrat WOULD be less offensive, but a real Republican would be far better.
I suppose a Warren Burger or a Sandra O'Connor are better than a Ruth Ginsburg or a Stephen Breyer, but not by much.
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