Thread: ONCE JOHN WINS, HE'LL MAKE A LEFT

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February 6, 2008 -- RUNNING as a conserva tive, John McCain rolled up huge victories last night in New York, New Jersey and beyond.

But if history is any guide, the McCain we've seen of late on the campaign trail is the most conservative McCain we'll ever see.

He has taken a commanding lead in the GOP primary by packaging himself as the "true conservative" committed to limited government, to slashed federal spending and to an avowedly conservative Supreme Court.

He claims the mantle of Ronald Reagan. He even claims the mantle of Barry Goldwater, conservatism's crack version of Reagan. But as McCain clinches the GOP nomination, he will begin his usual leftward lurch.

He will return to his lifelong positions as soft on illegal immigration, skeptical of tax cuts and favoring strong federal control over things like campaign financing.

McCain's appeal to independents and even the left is what makes him such a powerhouse in the general election.

It is also precisely what has so many in the Republican base so wildly fearful of handing him the keys to the kingdom.

If the Republican Party expands "because we have a candidate who's going out trying to attract liberals by being like them, then the party's going to be around but you won't recognize it," thundered radio king Rush Limbaugh.

The Republican Party will "be over as it exists now," he warns.

To understand just how McCain has managed to limp to the front of the GOP field, look no further than the outcome of yesterday's West Virginia Republican Convention.

At the outset, victory was in the air for Mitt Romney, the flip-flopping former Massachusetts governor.

He is universally loathed by all the other GOP candidates, who banded together to give all their votes to Mike Huckabee - simply to deny Romney a win.

The depressing GOP field that has paved a path to victory for McCain also gave surprising wins last night to Huckabee in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, as well as in his home state of Arkansas.

Still, McCain has so radicalized key conservatives that some have vowed to turn themselves into suicide voters next November by pulling the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton over him.

This last-minute blitz against McCain by Limbaugh and others, however, comes far too late.

But if those conservatives sit out the general election, they will help Democrats make history by electing either the first black president or the first female president next November.

To understand just how McCain has managed to limp to the front of the GOP field, look no further than the outcome of yesterday's West Virginia Republican Convention.

At the outset, victory was in the air for Mitt Romney, the flip-flopping former Massachusetts governor.

He is universally loathed by all the other GOP candidates, who banded together to give all their votes to Mike Huckabee - simply to deny Romney a win.

I'm surprised that RP took part in this. I thought he was different. Guess not.

If McBuzzard wins the nomination, we need to persuade Romney or Senator Jeff Sessions to run as a 3rd party candidate. We need an alternative to Ron Paul, a person who does not place defeating illegal immigration at the very top of his list.

Third party would do it for me, or a write-in.

I think the only way to fix America is a third party. What we have in now is to corrupt. I think Mitt would be a great third party candidate. Things are going to get real ugly before Novemember. I think a third party would look rather inticing after the they get through with each other. I can't think of a more better person then Hillary to make Mccain blow his top.

I WILL NOT vote for McCain! A vote for McCain is a vote for the downfall of America.

McCain is SO SCREWED up, it's IMPOSSIBLE to tell WHICH direction he is facing!

I will not vote for McClain, he really is a BIG SCREW up.

I wish now I had gone on and voted for Alan Keyes....just to make a statement! "Teddy" McCain will never get any of my familys votes...NONE!