Posted by
flagwaver on Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:01:22 AM
So it begins, the GOP hacks jumping onto the "Straight Talk Express" to endorse the candidacy of John McCain for President. There have always been those that were McCain supporters, or at least jumped on the bandwagon when their boy Rudy was seen to be failing miserably; people like Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes, and Bill Kristol have all been supporters of either McCain or Giuliani all along.
But with the Bush family jumping on the McCain train, we have confirmation of what we all knew or suspected: there is not one conservative voice to be found in the Bush family. Big George, Little George, and Jeb have all thrown their support behind the McCain candidacy, with GWB having the audacity to claim that McCain is a "real conservative"! I guess GWB and McCain were able to mend fences while they huddled together and invented new ways to call Americans racists or nativists when opposing the McCain introduced and Bush backed illegal alien amnesty bill. The support of GHWB is no surprise, as he is the original "compassionate conservative" who sold out the Reagan legacy to raise our taxes, and try to get in good with the Democrats in Congress instead of standing up to them. And I suppose that I shouldn't have been too surprised about Jeb, since he was leading the charge to have the state government of Florida stick it's nose into the Terri Schiavo case...very liberal, you know.
What has surprised me is that so many others are willing to support a man who has done nothing to advance conservatism in his tenure in the Senate, and has in fact opposed many conservative actions, all for the sake of "Party Unity". Hearing John Bolton singing that tune was a bit of a shock, because I always viewed him as a conservative in the GOP, not as a Party hack. Evidently I was wrong, because there was Ambassador Bolton giving his support to a McCain presidential run. Maybe Bolton, like many other members of the Party is basing his decision to support McCain on his strong stance on the war on Islamic facism; but even that in my opinion is not a good enough reason to support him. Honestly, McCain is an advocate of closing Gitmo, extending Geneva Conventions protections to terrorists, and has declared that waterboarding is torture. Besides, with his war on the Constitution at home what is the point of beating the terrorists if we end up losing our rights to another assault on free speech or the 2nd Amendment?
What's really funny though is how the media acts as though having the Presidents Bush on McCain's side is going to sway conservatives to his side! This is a man (GWB) that the media has painted as inept, corrupt, criminal, and damned near evil...now we are supposed to swoon because he gives his endorsement to McCain? An edorsement from Bush in the last election cylce was an albatross, but now for their boy McCain the media acts as though it is an earthshattering announcement! Puh-leeze! Let all the RINOs and hacks back McCain, all it does is show movement conservatives how much work is going to be needed to save the GOP from itself!