A Populist Capitalist Replaces Our Compassionate Conservative
Republicans have traded the “compassionate conservative” for the “populist capitalist”:
“John McCain is a populist. He believes in free markets; he believes in limited government and having the free enterprise system produce the jobs and the prosperity that he seeks, but he does think, as did Teddy Roosevelt, that you do need government there with some oversight and some regulation to avoid excess.”
It’s an odd message for a man whose base doesn’t trust him. If McCain thinks he can win by trying to attract disaffected Clinton voters while driving conservatives away, he’s got another thing coming. Those people are going to vote for the liberal, not the quasi-liberal.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Conservatism, Conservatives, John McCain, populism, President Bush, Presidential Politics, RepublicansJune 19, 2008 at 9:13 pm | Trackback
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Teddy was a Progressive; he admired Woodrow Wilson, our greatest Progressive fascist/racist/elitist/meddler.
McCain won’t be President. Obama will tweak McCain in a debate and he’ll will spin around the room like a balloon.
We’re heading for a zoo in Nov and the 4-5 weeks leading up to election day.
The first item for the GOP is to get Obama off the teleprompter and on to an ad lib situation. He’s meat there.
McCain better lose that environmental posture; the Dems are sausage on gas, heating oil, and food prices. They cannot hold their position and hope to win.
The RINO’s, if they control direction, will lose the Congress and the Presidency. McCain is just another power hungry senator; he wants to be President. Anything said or done to get him there, he’ll do.
The one item that does matter is the Supreme Court, probably three retirees this time around.