Eisenhower, Nixon, and Bush were not altogether conservative. BUT.
In the first place, the conservative base has been growing for years. It was gaining in momentum as recently as 2004. We have more conservative voters than ever before.
In the second place, McCain is far worse than any of those earlier candidates. Far worse.
So, we have a liberal candidate being shoved down the throats of a base that is much more conservative than it used to be. Why is this?
Well, people seem to say it’s not the RNC’s fault, it’s the Republican voters’ fault.
Not true. The deck was stacked. The primary season started with a bunch of leftist states and states where Democrats and “independents” were allowed to vote in Republican primaries.
McCain didn’t get a majority of Republican votes ANYWHERE. By the time we got to places where a conservative candidate might have won, however, the conservatives had been forced from the race by the MSM and the so-called conservative gurus. Huckabee guarded McCain’s flank in the states where southern evangelicals hang out, while the unelectable Mitt Romney took the rest of the oxygen from the real conservatives.
I voted for Eisenhower, the first time I voted, because Taft was an isolationist, and I thought Ike would do a better job of confronting the Soviet Union. He did.
But I’m not voting for McCain. He will sell out our country. This whole business is being rammed down our throats, and I refuse to swallow it.
I think we may have had more conservatives than ever before in 2004; however, the number of conservative voters has been decreasing ever since.
I think that the anti-Bush anti-War feelings in this country has hurt the conservative movement beyond anything since Watergate.
I fear that 2004 may prove to have been a high-water mark for the number of total conservatives in this country.