For the like of me, I cannot figure the republican fascination with John McCain in those states that have had their primary.  Now, that McCain  has narrowly won Florida, it further puzzles the daylights out of me.  Why are conservatives supporting this guy?   Here is a Senator who has sided with a democrat, the most liberal of them all, Ted Kennedy, in sponsoring that amnesty bill granting illegal immigrants all sorts of special rights for breaking our laws of entry.  Another snazoo of McCain was that sponsorship with Feinstein, one of California’s finest progressive liberals, of the campaign finance reform package that went too far in limiting free speech before elections.  He is and he isn’t a supporter of the 2nd amendment.  But most of all, John lost his way big time on the issue of immigration reform and environmental radicalism.

What are conservatives thinking?  Is it only that they consider him to have the best chance of beating Hillary the anointed?   Is it because these republican think that democrats would cross the line for McCain to get away from Hillary?  Democrats are more loyal to the party because of the unwritten rule of liberals: “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

Now McCain does have many admirable bed rock conservative qualities, however, it’s always those areas of weakness that comes back and grabs the you know what, off your you know what.  And then it really hurts, as we have seen of George W. Bush hurting conservative principles by expanding the size of government beyond what we would have expected to be done by democrats.

Here are my qualms about McCain.  The stuff that can bite.

McCain is part of the establishment Senator old timers who have been around far too long enough, they know the ropes, all of the twisted yarns, all of the knots, and all of the lobbyists could have the keys to his office.   John is soft on environmental issues, voting against drilling in Anwar, he is for the expansion of alternative fuels like ethanol research, which he was against in ‘99, but now it’s doable when gobs of money are thrown into the research, and Americans would be asked to sacrifice their love of safety first larger more comfortable vehicles, and pay lots more for corn and sugar based food products. 

He is for putting pressure on oil companies to reinvest profits in nuclear power (which is like pressuring McDonalds to invest profits in Kentucky Fried Chicken), and McCain also wants to elevate the EPA into a cabinet level bureaucracy sitting alongside the Dept. of Defense.

He’s a global warming cheerleader wanting to regulate, by the strong arm hand of government, industrial emissions to combat the catastrophic human caused climate changes, and he supports that cap and trade carbon scam that the Gores can envision extending it into every family home.  Nascar races could be shut down for not meeting pollution standards, and for protecting the health of the children in the stands, as the favored establishment jet sets it’s way to Bali for more closed door scheming.

If John cannot see through that simple farce, how can I trust him to have open eyes when it comes to complicated issues like foreign trade and progressive give aways to corrupt governments that won’t help their own people, and where to draw the line between defensive vs. offensive maneuvers with terrorist nations.

Can John be trusted to hold America first against all enemies, those abroad and those within, in spite of what his friends on the left whisper to him, to support the predominant politically correct, peace at any cost, non-offensiveness voices, teaching such stuff by re-writing American history for our public school children?  

Can you trust McCain to hold the runaway growth of the federal government to a zero?   If the NY Times thinks John is the man to take the party away from the old small angry fringe of conservatives, then John is just too chummy with the packaged Hillary and Bill. 

McCain is a live dud, close to senior moments galore, but he could be the republican nominee, the way the results of these first round of primaries are heading.  Principles do matter.  Super Tuesday is next week and that should tell us if the elected Rino conservatives in Washington have infiltrated the party base. 

The time is not yet lost to vote against McCain.

As I See It.

John is passed the age of retirement and should find more happiness with Reid, Murtha and Kennedy rocking away in Martha’s vineyard.

 Read the Michelle Malkin blog about McCain: “No easy peace.“ 

Read Joseph Farah: “Why listen to me.“

Read the Patriot Post profile of John McCain.

And Dick Morris looks at McCain from the aspect of beating Hillary.

“McCain is following Richard Nixon’s path.“  by Ernest Istook.

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