Real Conservatives Don't Like John McCain

by Justin Higgins @ 6:57 am on January 23, 2008.
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:

John McCain has two primary wins, and some people think it's because the Republican Party is past that "conservatism thing" and is aiming at concensus. Michael Medved basically called one of his mediums, talk radio, impotent in a blog entry he wrote:

The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight…

McCain and Huckabee are both decent and principled conservatives –and so, for that matter, are Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Duncan Hunter… Isn’t it about time for the nation’s other high profile talkers to join me in acknowledging that we’ve got a group of outstanding candidates each of whom, in his own way, represents different aspects of the Reagan legacy?
No, I won't join you in saying they each represent different aspects of the Reagan legacy, because that's not enough. We need a full spectrum Conservative, and that man left the race. Now we need to rally behind the next best candidate. John McCain, the media-anointed frontrunner, has way too many faults to be our nominee. On Medved's point, didn't Rush's constant attacks on Huckabee render him ineffective in Michigan and South Carolina, to a point? Now Rush is just getting started on McCain. Here's Rush's take on his apparent irrelevence.

Now, I want to point out that real Conservatives are assaulting McCain on all fronts, as he deserves to be assailed. Michelle Malkin said the following about John McCain:

The hothead has succeeded in intimidating voters and eluding tough questions from the press by playing his rhetorical violin. There is a reason so many liberals in the media and the Democratic party want John McCain to be the GOP presidential nominee. He gives them cover to continue smearing grassroots conservatives.

In Michigan, the illegal-alien parent-of-a-soldier story was met with boos. McCain’s cheerleaders at the New York Times and other press outlets attempted to depict the detractors as insensitive and racist boors — just as they did during last year’s ill-fated shamnesty campaign.

McCain has learned nothing. What about us?
When leading Conservative voices on immigration come out against a leading Republican candidate, we know we have a problem. Immigration is one issue where the Republican party has a huge advantage over the liberal wing of the Democrat party. Ingraham is also slamming McCain on a free speech / pro-life issue. The assault on McCain has just begun, and we'll see the fruits of the Conservative uprising in Florida.
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