Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
The question isn’t why Sarah Palin is helping John McCain. The question is: What are you doing to stop him from cementing his Big Government Republican legacy?
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Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
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 over the past year to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.
Red Flag Number 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 Number 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, Sen. 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. Grass-roots conservatives support former GOP statehouse 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 lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat 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 candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-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 another GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet – despite the huge cash and crony advantage of front-runner and blank-slate Jane.
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 grass-roots-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 past 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 Sarah 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.
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Great column, Michelle.
Glad to see you haven’t drunk from Fiorina’s kool-aid cup.
Thomas, what kind of drugs are you on?
What about the independents and moderates that don’t have any principles to vote on? Do they suck? How about the people who vote for anybody with a D next to their name? Do they suck? True Socialists and Communists? How about them?
You know who sucks? People who try to stifle debate and criticism amongst similarly minded individuals. If we wanted blind allegiance to a party, we’d be Dems. If you fear rugged individualism and endorse groupthink, why not go check out the DNC web site and leave us alone.
To think or even imply that McCain would have populated his administration with movement Marxists like Van Jones or Eric Holder is foolish at best. As bad is McCain is, and I am a whole-hearted supporter of JD Hayworth, his administration and his policies would have looked very little like what we’re fighting now – and I’m not referring to legislation. That doesn’t mean that I was ever a willing McCain supporter – but there comes a time when you have to make a choice, and those of you who refused that choice were effectively Obama supporters, whether you think so or not.
The idea that the tea party movement wouldn’t have existed under a McCain Administration is to not understand that it didn’t originate after Obama’s election – it was in full throat during the immigration debate. Would it have been as strong as it is now? Probably not, but that would depend on what the Democrat Congress did, not on McCain.
Your dislike of Palin is noted. I predicted in an earlier thread that she would suffer loss of support for backing McCain and it obviously is true.
I think you’re very wrong about not losing anything with Obama in the White House. McCain, whatever you and RWR think, isn’t a Marxist ideologue – he’s a big-government politician, and there’s a world of difference, most notable in who has been appointed to positions of power in the Obama Administration.
One of the longest-lasting effects of a President is their Supreme Court nominations.
Bush’s executive power is over, but Roberts and Alito will impact decisions for (hopefully) decades to come.
That said, McCain would never have nominated Sotomayor.
He may not have nominated (or been able to get confirmed) another Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, or Alito, but I think we would have gotten at least a Kennedy.
Certainly not a Sotomayor.
Actually, with McCain there is a distinct possibility that we might have gotten another Souter.
You don’t get it either, John Deaux.
There is the blog world, where you get to say anything you like, and then there is the real world, where actions have consequences. There is a lot of that on this page. And then there are comments above – where you have to make a choice that is best for us in the real world. The people here (McCain and now Palin derangement syndrome sufferers) who are part of the problem were Obama supporters – as much as the people who voted for Obama. For obvious reasons. In the 08 election, they made a bad situation worse. McCain won the republican primary. And it got worse, because Obama won the presidency.
Other examples, the New York race – a bad situation that got worse because so many people supported a carpetbagger and now we have a real democrat in office as the result. The claim that conservatism won because the democrat won, yes, the real “D” democrat.
Not to mention that you claim I want to stifle debate and criticism and then you tell me to go to the DNC web site.
Amazing. You really are something else.
Such short memories in Arizona!
Hopefully, Barry O will continue his losing streak and have a push for amnesty before the election with McVain as his Republican point man.
Then I take it putting up a link to contribute to Johnny Mac would be fruitless?
I think it’s a little much for those who call themselves conservatives to bash Sarah Palin merely for her support of McCain. If she had had no connection to him at all, and his selecting her had not catapulted her to the national stage, then yes, she should stay far away.
But any observant person can see that she does feel a sense of obligation to him, and rightly so. Her sense of honor is being revealed, not her political ideology. I do believe it’s wise to wait until after the Repub primary is over before she stumps, though. Expressing good wishes from afar would suffice at this time. I think she should wait to see if Hayworth gets it, and be sure to stump for him if he does, IMHO.
I doubt Souter would have stepped down if McCain had been President. If he had, I doubt the Democrat Senate would have confirmed anyone McCain would have nominated. The vacancy on the Court would have continued at least until after the elections in 2010, and possibly until 2013.
Also, if McCain had acted the way those who refused to vote for him to stop Obama think he would have acted, the Tea Party movement would have been every bit as ferocious as it is now, perhaps more.
It would have a lot of leftists in it, too, and impeachment proceedings would have already begun, since the left would want to impeach him for continuing the war and the right would want him impeached, too, for the open borders.
Forgive me if this has already been posted.
I do hope Sarah holds off on the stumping until the GOP candidate is selected.
Resenting being ignored-told we could not pick lettuce for $50 an hours ( I’ve picked lots of lettuce for far less), gang of fourteen, McCain Feingold? More resentment than derangement there lad.
I am in the real world opposing the man. I did vote Johnny Mac-but I really wonder if we would be better off if he won. The man has no center, his grasp of the Constitution is wanting and little snit fits are infuriating. As a Party worker and Precinct committeeman I have met him more than once.
It is time for him to go. “No Gang Banger Left Behind” is a lousy campaign slogan don’t you think?
You know what really bothers me about libs? Their intolerance.
My reasoning for having voted for McCain in 2008 was based on a couple of axioms, in order of importance:
1. Never, ever vote for a donk. No one, and nothing, is worse than a donk in a position of power.
2. Never by inaction or futile action contribute to the prospect of a donk winning an election.
Nowhere will it be seen in the above to “mindlessly vote Republican,” but it’s axiom #2 that almost always makes me vote Republican. Third party fantasies are just that — fantasies. But they’re worse than that, because they’re dangerous fantasies that have the effect of helping the enemy to win.
Militarily speaking, it is almost always a fatal mistake to divide your forces in the face of the enemy. Only a handful of geniuses, such as Robert E. Lee or Napoleon in his heyday, have pulled it off. Politically, it’s much the same — only I can’t think of any example where a split opposition managed to avoid defeat:
- Teddy Roosevelt helped Wilson cruise to victory in 1912.
- Anderson helped to defeat Carter in 1980.
- Perot helped Clinton to win 2 terms, without getting 50% of the popular vote in either 1992 or 1996.
- Nader helped to defeat Gore in 2000.
P.J. O’Rourke once said that “You have only one right: to do whatever you damn well please. And only one duty: to accept the consequences.”
It’s fine and dandy to stick to principles over pragmatism in politics. Vote for the Libertarian. Vote for the Constitution Party guy. Write in Michelle or Chuck Norris. It’s your right, do what you damn well please. But when the donk wins the election, step up and accept your share of the responsibility for that outcome. You had a choice to keep the donk away from the controls or to throw a tantrum, and you made it. Now own it.
When the drunken teenager drives the family car up on the sidewalk, runs over 50 people, and then careens off a cliff, step up and take responsibility for letting him walk off with the car keys when you could’ve stopped him. Own it.
Don’t complain about how lousy the Republican was; he lost, there’s nothing to be done about that now. Just raise your arm over your head like a basketball player who has committed a foul, and say, “I helped the donkey win.”
Because that’s the truth. Own it.
I’ll beg to respectfully disagree, txvet2. I did not intitially agree with some on this idea that (in a side way) having Obama in the Whitehouse would at least ‘wake up’ the electorate…to me that would have been too dangerous. However, on second thought, a year later, I believe such a sentiment was in fact correct.
I too voted for McCain/Palin, but on the basis that she was tough enough to counterbalance John McCain. I was wrong.
Question: Would the Tea Party movement really have acquired the ire and popularity it has now, it had to have dealt with a Progressive Republican administration with admonishments to ‘back the President’ aimed at us?
My answer: No. The reason is unfortunately how news is covered in this country, and from there how it is presented. Having Obama and his democrats completely-monolithicly- in charge to reveal Democrat corruption and the true meaning of the policies (not just their policies only, by the way, these were policies even McCain either proposed or quietly endorsed in some slightly different wording)exposed to the electorate in the starkest terms possible. This is what has driven the Tea Party movement to this point.
Having a McCain Administration, combined with an at least semi-compliant FOX NEWS, and a ga-ga Sarah Palin would have allowed more than enough confusion and unexposed back deals to get the same program through perhaps faster than Obama would have gotten it done, the masses having been put to sleep by inadequate information revealed to them in much the same way that Housing Bubble never got the attention it should have (when both parties favored making taxpayers back bad real estate loans in de facto terms). This is my take thus far.
Are nothing compared to the drooling that I see here.
And not knowing if we will be worse off with Obama as president … wow. That’s just unbelievable crazy right there. Devoid of reality type of crazy.
How many of those would it take to add up to a million [U.S.] dollars?
Am very interested in watching what Hayworth will do – your point about his having a bully pulpit with his radio show is interesting, but at some point he has to let his supporters [current and potential] know what his intentions are.
I’m hoping she is doing this as payback so she doesn’t feel any further obligation to him.
So you’re saying we should just blindly follow whomever our betters in the RNC choose to run? This could possibly be the stupidest thing written by somebody proclaiming themsleves to be conservative.
Sorry, we’ll get back in lockstep. Lead on, Tom!
That “something else” would be a free thinker. There’s more than a few of them here on this site. Being a drone is your choice, just don’t try to tell me I’m wrong for not following the other lemmings.
Does McCain even have a challenger? No.
So I suppose that Palin should stump for the Democrat? Would that make you feel better?
Grow up, people. You are sounding more and more like that idiot Debbie Schlussel. If she finds one thing out of place on a someone they are immediately evil and unworthy of any support from her.
Stupid. Cut your nose off to spite your face.
It’s McCain staffers who screwed her over. Granted, she was a bit short of issues, and ideas. No excuse for their hatred of her.
Your LOTE strategery at all costs is quite tiresome! I vote via the Founding Fathers guiding principles and my own beliefs on what is best for my Country and my family. Principles! Now there’s a word. You can bash all the third party voters all you want, but you all bear the same responsibility as the rest of us, if a Donk wins, by your incessant LOTE vote propping up one lame GOP candidate after another!
Own this! (grabs nethers)
I’m not saying LOTE vote is not without merit (read Scott Brown), but stop bashing third party voters as being solely responsible for Obowmao!
If she can’t figure out that these ‘staffers’ would not be around her without the approval of John McCain, then what does that say about her political intelligence and survival instincts?
What is it with you people and the “blindly follow” BS. You obviously don’t live in the same world (the real world) that the rest of us do.
Regulus already summed it up correctly. It’s not blind this or lockstep anything to want the outcome to become better, not worse for us. The fact that you don’t understand this basic fact, or that you willingly replace your version with what I and others are saying is really sad. For you.
Watching Republicans try to figure this out is like watching somebody try to get to a destination by taking the wrong road and thinking they can fix the problem by switching cars over and over. It’d be amusing if the expansion of government wasn’t strangling the country in the process.
Hurry up and figure it out. The chicken is getting pretty sore (metaphorically speaking).
Mortgaged up the yingyang! Taxed up the yingyang! Two college age kids I can’t afford to put into school! And I don’t live in the real world?! You arrogant D-bag! Blame everybody else but keep on contributing to the same systemic problems! I’m done with you.
@Regulus –
That’s funny. You’re like one of those parents who never disciplines their child and then can’t understand why he ends up an angry, drug-abusing loser. How exactly do you expect the Republican establishment to change if you keep blindly voting for them? Faith? If the concentration of power in the Republican Party on one hand and the Democratic Party on the other has created appalling depths of corruption, what law of human nature is going to change to stop this? Wishful thinking? If one wants to reasonably discuss bringing about change in the two-party system, why do you start with the most difficult possible area – the Presidency?
Like PJ O’Rourke said, you have the duty to accept the consequences of your spoiled, bloated, dishonest, and wholly unaccountable “Democrat-lite” party. Own it.
Thomas,
I will vote for the most conservative candidate that has a reasonable chance of winning. I fully understand the annoyance with the “purists” who can only see Goldwater clones in public office, but I can’t see promoting RINOs.
McCain is seeing the demise of the Crisp campaign in Florida and he is rightfully concerned that he is next. Frankly, we need to put moderate and liberal Republicans out to pasture and support the conservatives who run and govern as principled Republicans. There are no politicians of either party who are owed anything – and when they get the sense that they are entitled, it is time to get rid of them. Frankly, the cesspool in DC and in far too many state capitols needs a good clean out.
Well, I am glad that we have finally resolved the LOTE issue. That takes a HUGE concern off my mind…
Oh, it looks like Thomas got lost on his was to the Daily Kos.
Hey, Thomas, have you ever looked at the history of socialism or seen its results. In the 20th century, Stalin’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics killed the entire intellectual core of that republic – and this was well before Hitler and the National Socialists. Then along came the likes of Mao and his People’s Republic. Mao is the greatest mass murderer in history with at least 75 million deaths on his hands. And how about Pol Pot and his genocidal purification of Cambodia. He only killed about 2 million people or over 25% of the Cambodian people. How about the “heroic” terrorist Che or the wonders of Fidel or even Hugo Chavez.
It is people like you who believe that any ends justify the use of any means, and you are responsible for the horrific and genocidal consequences associated with socialism.
I don’t care what direction others take I will not support anyone that supports Progressive big government or RINO’s.
I love Sarah but I love my country more.
Bye Bye Sarah. I have unsubscribed from SarahPAC and will not send a dime to anyone that gets in bed with those that take away liberty or property to enrich the idle. Thomas your Obama is showing.
Does McCain have a challenger? Chris Simcox is currently in the running there and has been for some time. Granted, the fact so few know this doesn’t speak highly of his campaigning ability, but he is there. The locals from Arizona can tell me what they think of him, but I have a hard time believing he’s worse than McCain.
J.D. Hayworth is annoying me greatly. Now that Sarah is a factor, he either needs to declare or begone. This “I want to be like Fred Thompson in the 2008 Presidential primaries” bunk is getting old.
Fred Thompson was McCain’s stalking horse.
We have had enough/too much McCain. I regret that Palin is endorsing him
A question for Regulus. Did the people that voted for Arlen Spector waste their vote?
I believe they did. And I believe a vote for a RINO is a wasted vote.
Since I don’t live in Arizona I hadn’t followed the race there. I was hoping McCain might retire but he is just not willing to go gently into that good night.
Now, quite a few people seem to wish Sarah were campaigning for another, more conservative GOP candidate in the primary.
Chris Simcox has a campaign web site and it looks like he is a declared GOP primary candidate. JD Hayworth has evidently not entered the race. That is, he is not officially a candidate.
Simcox is polling a stunning 4% in recent Rasmussen polls. I don’t know enough about him to know if he is worth supporting or not. But 10 months before the election, I think Simcox is a dark-horse and long-shot candidate in the most favorable circumstances.
Therefore, even though I did not vote for McCain in 2008, I can’t get too bent out of shape at Palin announcing support for McCain.
I might feel very differently about this if I lived in Arizona. But it appears to me that Sarah is supporting the only non-Democrat candidate in the race.
I hate the fact that McCain may win another 6 years in the Senate. He is a disaster on way too many issues. I’d like to be done with him. But, I would certainly hate to see this Arizona Senate seat revert to Democrat control. It would be ironic if Scott Brown ousted the Dems in Massachusetts only to have the Dems oust McCain in Arizona. And maybe get their 60th Senate seat back…
I sent money to a viable Conservative candidate NY-23. I sent money to a conservative Republican running in my district. I am more than willing to support a viable CONSERVATIVE candidate against a RINO like McCain but pretty frankly, there does not appear to be a viable candidate in this race. If you see one, please let me know.
Just the facts, as it were…
I can’t stand mcamnesty and would never vote for the guy with ONE exception. If he was running in Brown’s place for MA Senator, then he would get my vote. Reason? Simple, MA is the one the most liberal states. A staunch conservative would not win there. I see using RINO’s to our benefit where we would otherwise not have a chance. However, Arizona is a conservative state (one of the most conservative), so we should not back a RINO in Arizona. Of course the GOP will. Mcamnesty is the poster child with what is wrong with the GOP. His ouster in the primary would send a strong message to the RNC. SO the strategy to truly teach the RNC a lesson would be to call for the GOP to support a truly conservative candidate over mcamanesty. You “R” over anything supporters may win the battle but lose the war for the battle of the soul of the GOP. The RNC will back mcamensty, not only because he is the incumbent, but because the RNC does not wholly oppose amnesty. They just want to give it a different name. As long as you noseholders vote for the “R” no matter what, they will continue to move left on issues to pick up a few more votes.
The people of AZ have had enough of Juan McLame and he WILL be gone this year. His crew tried to take over the AZ GOP and were politely told “NO we aren’t doing things your way this time” by the GOP County Chairs.
McLames petitions to get on the primary ballot go unsigned. He may not even BE on the primary ballot in Aug. He is pushing hard with commercials on every radio station in the state that slam JD Hayworth and praises himself as “fighting for AZ”. John McCain fights for John McCain–AZ is an after thought.
After listening to him on two different tele-town halls I can confirm that he is anything BUT interested in Conservative values. When questioned about the constitutionality of the Health Care bill he stated that whether it was constitutional or not was not for him to “decide on the floor of the Senate but should be decided by the Courts.” Does that sound like someone who upholds his oath of office???
When questioned at a town hall about his support of the Health Care bill when it gets “amended” he denied that he ever said that and called the questioner, a Precinct Committeeman, a liar and then got nasty.
Well, the AZ State GOP meets tomorrow and we’ll see whether the RINO’s prevail or the Conservatives. Considering that the Conservatives have literally taken over the county Repub parties it looks like the RINO’s in AZ will be history–just like NV.
We Tea Party-ers will have nothing to do with him and Sarah coming here will do nothing FOR McCain and everything against Palin–I intend to be there in March with my T-shirt that has McCain inside a circle with a line through it so there is no question that he will voted OUT in the primary.
Besides JD Hayworth who has NOT committed to running, there is Chris Simcox who carries a lot of baggage by his mismanagement of the Minutemen and Jim Deakin who is the only one who has enough signatures to appear on the primary ballot. Personally I’m not sure I want a re-run with JD especially while he plays with the voters—other than it makes McStupid keep spending money with ads against him—but Jim Deakin is coming on strong just like Doug Hoffman did in NY-23. We, fortunately, have months to put a strong showing behind Deakin to get him elected. He is a Conservative. For AZ people check out his web site and then invite him to speak in your town and see for yourself.
Thanks for identifying Jim Deakin. I’ll check out his web site and think about a donation. It looks like the TEA Party people in Arizona need to get organized if they want to oust McCain.
I do think Sara Palin is very likely to lose stature with conservatives due to her support of Mccain. It is an odd choice especially considering the terrible things the McCain staff leaked about her after the campaign.
Loyalty is one thing but it is a two way street…
It certainly looked that way, didn’t it? Either that, or McCain was too arrogant to believe he was the one causing his numbers to drop and just kept opening his mouth.
I could believe it either way.
McCain is a anchor and needs to be cut off and let sink to the bottom. He is a loser and his time has come on gone. Get lost McCain and take your stupid offspring with you.
John McCain is a globalist bought and paid for by the Rockefeller CFR/TriLateral Commission.
It is highly disappointing that Palin has joined the One World Government crowd vowing to campaign for him.
Thank God we still have good people like Michele Bachmann in the Party and we need more like her that believe in what or founding fathers put to paper back in 1776.
We need to clean house in the RNC if we ever hope to take our country back and John McCain needs to go ASAP.
McCain manage to run a campaign worse than that of George H W Bush in 1992. Bush had a theme of “it isn’t so bad and it might not get worse.”
Frankly, McCain’s theme appears to have been “I’ll sell out the constitution more slowly than the communists.”
Inspiring! It just doesn’t get any better than that…
While Fred Thompson is McClown’s friend, he didn’t offer support until the country allowed the MSM to snivel lies and spin his run under as the country didn’t have a clue whether the aspersions were true or not…that’s more than sad, it’s pathetic.
John “Juan” McCain
http://juanmccain.blogspot.com/
When a man is beaten to a pulp for refusing to denounce America, that has to count for something. In McCain’s case, it happened to him again and again. With McCain, you have to balance the good with the bad. I have talked to three different former POWs who knew McCain from those long ago days of communist captivity. To a man, they revere McCain.
Yes, McCain tends to be selfabsorbed and he does not know what he is talking about when it comes to issues like campaign finance and immigration and taxes (2001 vote was a disgrace). But you have to cut some slack to account for the man’s courage under the worst forms of imprisonment.
McCain is no John Kerry, who did 3 easy months in Saigon and then created a false narrative of phony courage.
Sarah Palin is a very loyal person. McCain put her on the national stage and she is loyal to him for it. She is not like an Al Gore or a Bill Clinton who abandon people when they are no longer useful.
Hayworth has my donation and my best wishes.
McVain’s perverted and disgusting Amnesty jam-down and nasty arrogant insults to people like me who won’t stand for that insanity in any respect, made it clear to this voter/citizen that McVain and anyone associated with him or supporting him is my enemy and the enemy of our society. I don’t care what their name is or what they’ve done in the past. you either oppose treason or you go along with it. I oppose it with all my being.
that is if we give two cents for what America used to be and ever want to see that again. what America has become at the hands of invasion-promoting leftists and their inexplicable helpers like McVain saddens me more than I am able to express.
Politics!
Poli – many
Ticks – blood sucking insects!
Politics, many blood sucking insects!
They can’t be trusted.
They lie.
They deceive.
They don’t listen to their constituents.
They don’t pay attention to, and follow the Constriction of the United States of America (Pushing Nationalized Health care with mandated, paid enrollment is a violation of the constitution of the United States and exceeds the enumeration of Federal government powers, which the Constitution states clearly – any power NOT enumerated in the Constitution of the US is NOT a Federal power, but is left to the states. Banning the interstate commerce in which people can buy medical insurance from other states outside their own, a situation which actually DOES open competition and options between insurers and consumers, is a violation of rights as well.)
The Congress, the President, and where complicit, the Judiciary, are also in violation of the Constitution in that they are NOT protecting our borders and ensuring security on the mainland, Alaska, and Hawaii by keeping illegal trespassers out of the USA, deporting them, and/or incarcerating them upon discovery of their violation of our laws and soveriegnty. How can we be lied to that there is a “War against Terrorists” including al Qaeda and other Muslim Jihadi groups, and lied to about the government’s concern for our economy, when they openly allow, and advocate, for illegal trespassers, and when they are lenient on them when discovered, and even give them a pass on being here illegally?
Let’s see if Scott Brown will follow suite and pull a bait and switch maneuver himself once he has been in office, or will he actually stay true and behave in a manner that is true to conservative values!
I have more respect for her giving superficial support to him, than if she abandoned him.
If she gives superficial support, but keeps her distance, then she will have fulfilled her obligation without risking her reputation. We’ll just have to monitor her narrative and behavior during the next several months to see if she’s worthy of continued support after this McCain thing. At this time, I think that she will be, and I’m hoping I’m right.
What’s the big deal about McCain spending 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton?
OK, maybe I’m missing something.
Her reputation is already shot for me. If she has no better sense than this, then I can’t trust her at all.
We finally have a chance to truly make a dent in the corruption in Washington and she pulls this. UN-REAL.
I guess you really told me! First you take me to task for pointing out that you don’t always automatically vote for the Republican candidate and in a very long explanation, you include this comment:
Thank you for clearing that up! Let me summarize your explanation. YOU ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN NO MATTER WHAT!
Do you RINOs even read what you say? Try parsing your statements before you commit them for eternity.
The reason amnesty, Cap and Trade, and nationalized health care are not already law are no thanks to mindless partisans like you. You couldn’t care less that we would live under a Marxist regime so long as Republicans are in power. It’s only bad if Democrats are in power. That is called MINDLESS.
Its 6:30pm arizona time listening to JD Hayworth show on KFYI 550am. He just announced that this is his final radio show but he will be a major player in the public arena. JD Hayworth for US Senate folks you heard it here first.
WOOT WOOT WOOT
Listening to the same show. Kick McCains butt JD.
Ready to give as soon as JD gets his a** out of the gate.
Tucson, AZ conservative sick of being represented by this big government fool, more, ignoramous.
So there are two candidates that I will be contributing to for sure: Chuck DeVore in CA and JD Hayworth in AZ. If Palin was to be helpful in the Tea Party movement, she is off to a bad start. Maybe McCain will take her with him when he rides off into the sunset.
McCain never defended his minion’s attacks on Sarah Palin. When recently asked about the vetting process for Palin McLame took a pass. He could have told his dipstick staff to knock it off–but he didn’t. He let them blame Palin for his loss which is unadulterated BS. He would have been wiped out if not for her. He needs to be gone. His butt boy Lindsey Graham told the tea party people to sit down and shut up. To hell with them both. Adios Amigos!!!!!
Hey Michelle,
How about an open thread?
Exactly. McCain never hesitated to throw anyone under the bus for attacking Obama but Palin…. crickets. The candidate is responsible for everything that goes on in his campaign. McCain is worse than a Democrat because, as an earlier commenter pointed out, Democrats are not shy about telling you that they are liberals. McCain hides behind a conservative mask. It is NEVER defensible to vote for a McCain Republican as Obama has proved. We never could have stopped McCain once he was president but we stopped Obama.
McCain demonstrated once again that when presented with a choice between a Democrat or a democrat, America always chooses the Democrat because of truth in labeling.
Considering McCain was picked for us by northeast liberals because they knew Obama had a better chance against him I say it is time to push this guy to retire. For some reason, be it senility or he was picked specifically to lose, he campaigned for Obama. It is time for him to go.
Brown may not be the most conservative politician around, but he ran on conservative issues and won proving that conservative values lead in the country. Palin choosing to help McCain out does make me nervous though.
I was reading through some of the posts, the Thomas guy is a plant, like the liberals who picked McCain for us, he is still pushing the lies that to be effective we must reach. Reaching only gives Dems majorities which means a no job welfare state.
Taking a break from Haiti, God delivers message to Virginia doctors. Evidence sent to Pat Robertson for deciphering.
John McCain: Democrat-lite. I will never support this dope.
Many, if not most, of us here supported Brown knowing he is a liberal on the logic that it was the rare exception where it made sense for Tea Party support because it was worth the risk in order to immediately kill DemCare and that there would be a liberal elected either way. Brown was lucky to be at the right place at the right time. Period. It does not argue for voting for “big tent” Republicans. Had the race been just another race, he never would have gotten the support of us Tea Party activists.
Now that we can see that Brown is at best an establishment Republican who is beholden to McCain, we now have to keep him on a short leash. The RINOs that keep posting here with their tired old arguments are closet liberals who believe that the only way to restore the GOP to power is to present Democratic candidates. Brain dead.
I agree. That being said, I do not wish to see Palin running for any kind of office. She will be good on FNC and that’s where she belongs. Or maybe she can have her own talk radio show.
It STINKS that she had to be pulled onto the national stage by this guy. I am disgusted by his lack of character in standing up for her, and later when asked if he would support her if she ran for Pres, he waffled and never did say he would. So, there’s PLENTY of reason to be mad at him (besides his track record). But I’m thinking she’s doing a variation on Reagan’s theme. As I said, time will tell. If she gets all starry-eyed over him and overdoes it, I will be turned off, too. But I’d like to hang back and see how she conducts herself.
I’m not sure where I’d like to see her land. At this point, I kind of like her calling her own shots w/the book tour, and even the Fox stuff. But she must remain strong and independent. This McCain thing probably won’t help her, but I’m really hoping she plays it so that it doesn’t hurt her, either.
I also appreciate Palin’s contributions to the national debate via her Facebook page.
Club McCain = Looser. Zero conservative values. Same goes for his wife.
MoveOn.John
Gov. Palin is making a huge mistake endorsing McCain.
Michelle is truly the mother of the Tea Party movement and I trust her judgment. Period. Plus, I’m still upset about casting a vote for McCain.
This is a jump the shark moment for Palin. By supporting McCain she just pissed off the tea party folks and most independent conservatives which are a majority of the voters.
IMHO her aspirations for higher office are over if she comes out for him.There is no way you can call yourself a conservative if you come out and campaign for liberal socialist Republican that used to vote for anything that Ted Kennedy supported.
Have you RNC die hards forgotten who the amnesty bill was named after or how about McCain/Feingold ect ect ect.
Marc #260 I live in AZ and I have heard McLame’s continual whinning about being a POW–it has lost its luster with me. IF he’d have been a better pilot he wouldn’t have gotten shot down–by the way that was the 5th plane he lost! I’ve been hearing it for over 20 years and now I’m unimpressed and unsympathetic. Look at his voting record for the last 6 years that is all the reason anyone needs to dump his ass this year. NO to McAmnesty–go retire in Sedona!!!!
*As I pointed out on the McCain-Feingold thread, Sarah Palin is making a colossal mistake in campaigning for McCain; Her motto lately is promoting “common sense conservatism”; You cannot promote that and McCain without appearing hyper hypocritical; Issue after issue after issue this RINO rat bastard has revealed his liberal tendencies; Her credibility will be toast and my money will go to J.D. Hayworth or Chris Simcox in the primary!
O/T My pet peeve:
Looser: Opposite of tighter
Loser: Opposite of winner
Lose: Opposite of win
Sorry, it drives me batty.
Even if you are right in saying McCain isn’t a Marxist, it is undeniable that he is as anti-Constitution as the most flagrant Marxist ideologue we’ve seen to date (Obama).
It is true that the Tea Party movement was around before Obama. I was involved in it – my profile was published in April of 2008, long before the election. However, a McCain presidency would have largely silenced it due to the fact that many of those who espouse Tea Party ideas are LOTE voters who voted for McCain. It would have been the bed that they had made, and they would be largely forced to sleep in it.
The blame truly falls upon Republicans who failed to see the need for a constitutionally sound candidate, and upon those who just went along. It’s ok though. The truth always wins out in the end. Regardless of whether ultimately the Tea Party movement runs with a re-vamped Republican or Democratic party (which is also possible now given the disarray in that party) or a new party (which I have made my advocacy of no secret), the Tea Party, being based in solid truth and the Constitution, will ultimately win.
Of that I have no doubt.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
We refused that choice because we didn’t want an anti-Constitutionalist in the White House. Therefore neither candidate was supportable.
Instead, I voted for a Constitutionalist. That means that I was willing to accept an Obama presidency on the basis that it wouldn’t be any worse than a McCain one.
So far, I’ve been pretty much dead-on, so if you and your party are interested in getting back the votes of independent thinkers and constitutional voters, I’d strongly suggest you start supporting candidates who are appropriate to the cause.
Point your finger at me all you want, but in the words of a great motivational speaker, “You can get everything you want in life by giving other people what they want.”
Want me to vote for your guy? Nominate someone worthy of it. I voted in the Republican primary, and made it very clear (along with a plethora of other constitutionalists) that McCain was the only candidate that could not get my vote under any circumstances. So Republicans run to the polls and nominate McCain anyway. There were numerous others available, yet Republicans allowed McCain to have the nomination KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THEY WOULD BE LOSING A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF VOTES.
You knew you’d be losing our votes. You and your party decided you didn’t want our votes or our input and CHOSE to go ahead without us. That’s not our problem.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I can’t say I agree with this. Sotomayor was touted as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice (even though she was not). McCain would have fallen to that same temptation of being able to say he had nominated a Hispanic woman to the court, and his established penchant for caving to liberal pressure (which is so consistent as to call into question whether he was actually “caving”).
Sotomayor would be as good a choice as any for the likes of McCain.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
As if it weren’t already.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I have to say that if Palin is endorsing McCain, she’s not who I thought she was.
Very sad!
Commentors here are well aware of this already.
I took a lot of flack for telling them about it, but hey, I also took flack for being skeptical about Palin.
… and I’m not all about saying “I told you so”, because I correctly had faith in everyone’s capacity to learn. I knew these lessons would be learned, and I know the future lessons that must be learned will also be.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
These are actually excellent venues for Sarah Palin.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’ve been biting my tongue about this for a long time. Thanks for bringing it up.
I’m also annoyed by misuse of the apostrophe (its vs. it’s, for example), and of there/their/they’re.
There’s more, but I’ll continue to bite my tongue about it. As annoying as it is, it’s still trivial.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Especially given my grammatical errors in #296.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Before making rash comments and promises look into who is the opposition.
All over the place I noted people saying McCain is no better than Obama. (I made the same mistake for awhile. Then my brain reengaged.)
McCain is not ideal or optimum. He is, however, the man with his feet on the ground who gets about half the program. That is better than a Democrat who is against the entire Tea Party set of objectives.
If you can replace him IN THE PRIMARIES with somebody who is significantly better and resonates with his constituency, then do so in spades. Otherwise buck up and do the right thing. Support the damn fool rather than the total piece of excrement opposing him.
{^_^}
The thing that really pisses me off is that Sarah is still pulling and campaigning (as is Scott Brown) for this loser. His immigration ideas are wrong as was most of his agenda. They only reason I voted for the old bastard was Sarah and I now realize that was a big fat mistake for which I apologize and will work hard to rectify.
bolivar
Yep, Palin needs to get out of that loop
I don’t believe McCain is “as bad as Obama” because I don’t believe that is possible. Obama, with the assistance of his evil minions, pupper-masters and Obamabots, is as bad as it gets.
McCain has way too much baggage he’ll never explain. Try this story about his wife:
http://onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=864614
Just which ‘tea party’ objective has McCain proven to support?
The only way out of this mess is for Arizona to retire him this fall. The next problem will be the GOP establishment that remains deaf to conservatism. I heard someone yesterday talking about Gingrich behind a lot of the pseudo-conservative principles that they are adopting, which wouldn’t surprise me at all. It’s a machine that cares more about campaign donations than it does principles. They didn’t learn much from the upsets on the east coast.
This is not good because McCain is not center right of the America, he’s a stone cold disturbed Progressive and he’s trying ride the tide through November. I can’t understand why Sarah Palin is backing McCain. This is like being hit with cold water because I had so hope for her, but to align yourself with someone like McCain is a deal killer for me.
I have always thought that John McCain was brain washed, I just don’t know how many enemas it took. One or two. Every time these guys come up for re-election they move to the right, and as soon as they are re-elected they move back to the left. I think it’s time for the American people to wake the hell up and throw all of these clowns out of office.
Conservatives do not support anyone who will not defend the rule of law and national sovereignty.
Sarah Palin supports McCain who, while trying to fudge during the campaign, still supports amnesty for illegal aliens.
Amnesty for illegal aliens is abandoning the rule of law and surrender of our sovereignty, very close to treason.
Palin has shot herself in the foot, one would think she’d know about gun safety.
If the GOP is moving right, it must consider McCain toxic.
If the GOP wants the Tea Party movement to identify with and support it, it must consider McCain toxic.
To this conservative, McCain is the enemy.
I know someone mentioned hearing Hayworth say this on his radio show; here’s the story linked by Drudge:
Former Ariz. congressman plans run against McCain
Short of his filing papers as a candidate, this is about as official as it gets.
I missed the JD Hayworth announcement yesterday! Thanks AZ members for posting it! I did however have JD’s show on when the slam JD McCain campaign commercial came on in the 2nd hour…grrrrr
Go JD!!! I am thrilled!
Cathy in AZ
Local Dem Rep Glenn Nye has signed on to support a NO amnesty bill. This is in direct opposition to McCain’s philosophy. Are the new blue dogs going to steal the tea party thunder? McCain better come to his senses.
You’re kidding, right? There is as much chance of McCain “coming to his senses” as there is Obama moving to the center. It is not in their DNA. Impossible. McCain won’t change. He needs to go. And such a shame that Sarah Palin has blown it big time, by backing this loser. Personally, I never was that impressed with her as a politician. She is a conservative woman who lives her values. I admire that very much! But local politics was where she belonged, not on the national stage. She needs to go back to Alaska and serve there.