John McCain Dares Conservatives to Vote Against Him
McCain gave us a glimpse of his plan to rally dispirited conservative Republicans today:
“Most Republicans respect the process, most Republicans say ‘He’s the nominee of our party … I’m going to get behind our candidate to make sure a Democrat doesn’t come in.’ It’s a fairly natural evolution.”
Wow! McCain is amazingly arrogant. He’s daring conservatives to vote against him. I think he’s really misreading the dynamic here. President Bush burned through all the “At least I’m not a Democrat” chits. And I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that way.
As a conservative, I just don’t feel like the Republican Party is my natural home anymore. It’s far more interested in independents and illegal immigrants now. McCain better hope those people turn out in droves for him because when faced with a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, I’m picking the write-in option.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Conservatism, Conservatives, John McCain, Presidential PoliticsJanuary 31, 2008 at 12:05 am | Trackback
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I shall not, never vote for McCain. If necessary I’ll vote for Obama.
Either of the two will destroy the country. That being so, let the Donkocrats get blamed.
I no longer care what this loon says or thinks. He’s sounding more and more like a dissembling Kennedy or Clinton, or a madman, where language itself is without purpose.
In this lunatic quote, he’s claiming that party name is all that matters. In McCain’s Orwellian world, no one is allowed independent thinking but himself.
I think they hit him too many times.
If i ever vote democrat i would never forgive myself. Obama in my eyes is just as bad as McCain and Hillary. I’ll be voting for whoever fills the Independent spot. The only difference i feel who can truly make a real difference in everyone’s lives for the better is Ron Paul, as lunatic as he sometimes has been.
McCain appeared confident of his ability to win over support from conservatives as he takes his campaign across the nation in coming days.
“Oh, they’ll rally behind me,” McCain said on his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express.
http://www.reuters.com/article.....4920080131
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Mainers, here’s your chance to take away the key to the state before it’s surrendered!…
http://www.mainegop.com/FlexPa.....08schedule
Mainiacs think Snowe and Dukakis are right wing.
Helen, consider your options if McCain is the RINO party candidate. Obama or Hillary vs. McCain. What is your vote?
I’d rally behind the little nutcase so I could kick him in the ass.
I’m just going to ignore you guys….I can believe anything I want to believe…..including the fact that good people everywhere are sick of trash, lies and betrayal and tax after tax after tax after tax. I refuse to give up hope in them and that they’ll see how important it is to stand up to all that garbage.
You can’t ignore us Helen. When we’re behind you in class we keep pulling your pigtails.
OK, now you did it….you brought me back to memories of my fourth grade experience…
Miss R. was one year away from retirement. Yup, ours was the last class to have the distinct honor and privilege. She had silver grey hair which must have been waist length because she wound her braids around the top of her head in multiple halos. She was short, very round and wore silk dresses which always hung longer in front than in back. We would be assigned quiet desk work and as we worked she would do a slow stealth walk in the aisles up and down repetitively with her hands clasped behind her back which waved a ruler up and down….up and down. We would hold our breaths as she approached from behind us, terrified. Later I found out, us girls didn’t have a thing to worry about.
Nope, it was the boys who had the laser eyes on them. There was a set of male twins in our class and three or four other boys who were regularly discovered. That ruler came out from behind her back often and was liberally used across the knuckles. She stuffed them in the well under her desk until she realized that wasn’t a good place. She put them in the paper closet and probably locked the door.
Recesses were torture. Descents down the fire escape were awful. We would threaten to tell Miss R., and came the reply…”Go aheaaaad…See if I care!”
We square danced a lot, because Miss R said we had to and depending on whether we had just come through a growth spurt we’d end up with a different partner….(PLEASE don’t let it be the twins!!!)
I will say though, that Miss R. was known mostly for the town’s rite of fourth grade passage. At the beginning of the year we were instructed to look in the corner of the room. The shelves there contained multiple copies of Webster’s Student Dictionaries. Miss R. told us that there was one for each of us but we had to earn them… as soon as we were able to recite the alphabet backwards we were brought up to the front of the class, awarded a huge blue star and permitted to take our very own dictionary. I can still recite that alphabet to this day, as quickly as that day in Miss R.’s fourth grade classroom…
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
Needless to say, not all of us wanted a dictionary but I’m very sure Ms R. took care of that too. Go ahead, tug my pigtails…..Ms. R loves me still!
After than fine vignette, Helen, I hesitate to get back to politics, but here goes:
I don’t know if we have enough readers to offend, but this might do it - just random thoughts off the cuff:
In the early 1950’s, Progressivism thinking was extant, everywhere, and it suited the post-war mood of increasing prosperity and endless growth in The West. Everything about conservatism was discredited, in part because it was associated with backwardness, inherited wealth, the stuffy elites and, in the South, racism.
William Buckley was the lone public intellectual to make a case for American enlightened conservativism, and he separated himself and his nascent movement from the Birch Society and the various reactionary coalitions that were assembled to resist people like Henry Wallace and the outright socialist and communist sympathizing wings of the Progressive movements, that were often associated with the Democratic Party.
On the other hand, Buckley tacked Joe McCarthy in the same way - the man who gave anti-communism a bad name - and highlighted the truth that State and Intelligence were infiltrated by communists, even if a bizarro like McCarthy was saying it.
It took thirty years for Buckley and others to separate conservatism from disreputable causes, and develop a sound intellectual base, and less than ten for idiots like Sean Hannity and, to a lesser degree, Limbaugh, to create a public image of conservatives as “small government”, “untamed capitalist”, materialistic, in-search-of-excellence goons. Neither one of these guys can quote a single memorable idea from the vast body of conservative literature that couldn’t be snatched from the Reader’s Digest. Hannity, particularly, is a derivative bonehead, and it amazes me that he has an audience at all. He’s a fund-raiser to good causes, which is admirable, but not a thinker.
Everything has changed because the blare of talk radio has reduced liberalism to the intellectual choice of thumb-sucking pacifists, and conservatism to a type of superman utilitarianism. I loathe the claims of progressivism, and believe that it ministers to the same fantasy world of utilitarian conservatism. Something for nothing, the world if perfectable, and what we get is the tyranny of the credulous.
We don’t have a workable conservative philosophy in this country anymore, because the work of thirty years was wiped away by sound studio hacks. If you want to know why McCain is doing so well, it’s because of them.