Posted on 02/10/2008 2:42:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I posted a squib on the National Review Web site about a robo call I received from John McCain. (Virginia's primary is Tuesday.) The call stressed that he would, if elected, be a down-the-line limited government conservative who would never raise taxes, would defend life, would enforce immigration laws and would win the war on terror. The candidate is trying, I said, to meet conservatives "more than halfway." The response of readers was, shall we say, emphatic.
One lady wrote that she would never vote for him as "He is the most disloyal, ill-tempered man and he brings out the worse in all of us. ..." Several readers made the point that after decades of suffering abuse at McCain's hands, conservatives are not going to fall into line for him now, no matter what blandishments he offers.
I know how they feel. The problem with McCain is not just that he strays. George Bush has strayed from conservatism, too. So has Fred Thompson. Certainly Mitt Romney has as well. But Sen. McCain has a knack for saying things in just the tones and accents that liberals prefer. In 2000, he condemned the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "agents of intolerance." In 2004, when Sen. John Kerry was getting his comeuppance from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, vets who had known him during the war and couldn't remain silent as the Democratic nominee distorted his war record, McCain weighed in by calling the Swift Boaters "dishonorable and dishonest." When the Bush Administration was being vilified as a nest of Torquemadas for using waterboarding on three occasions, McCain came forward to condemn waterboarding as torture.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldnet.com ...
Could NOT have been better stated.
Churchill did indeed have his time in the wilderness. Reagan did too.
What I find so disconcerting about this is that there IS such a thing as conservative media. In Nixon’s day, what did he have? William Buckley was still getting going if I recall - even recruited Lieberman to run against the RINO Lowell Weicker in Connecticut. Lowell was a RINO before it was even a acronym.
You should read this from redstate.com.
His thinking is like yours, but he hasn’t yet said he absolutely would not vote for McCain. He goes through a lot of reasons not to vote for him. And what would it cost us all.
http://www.redstate.com/stories/archived/the_wages_of_being_john_mccain
BTTT
If you can’t piece that together from my name and comment, you need a guide dog.
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