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Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
Posted on Friday, January 22 @ 10:38:48 EST
Topic: John McCain President Campaign
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 ALIPAC NOTE: Thank you Michelle Malkin!
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?
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.
Topics: GOP, Republicans, John McCain, Conservatives, campaigns, elections, Arizona, tea party, candidates, senate, senator,
By Michelle Malkin
January 22, 2010 09:10 AM
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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