Why John McCain?
 
There is a story unfolding more interesting than Hillary vs. Obama or even Britney Spears and her new Muslim boyfriend. It’s the changing priorities of the Republican base. It might be too early to call the conservative movement dead, but the symptoms were seeing tell us that the movement is terribly sick. Heer’s what I see.
Rasmussen has 600 Republican likely voters at 23% McCain, 20% Romney, 17% Huckabee, 12% Thompson and 8% Giuliani. CNN has registered 29% of Republicans choosing McCain, 20% Huckabee, 19% Romney, 14% Giuliani and Thompson 9%. The AP-Ipsos poll has Republicans picking McCain at 22%, Huckabee 16%, Romney 16%, Giuliani 14% and Thompson 9%. McCain has won in those primaries that are open, bringing in the independent vote, which has him gathering momentum for the Florida primary which is a closed vote. McCain is going to have to face the Republican base in Floride, but is that as much an obstacle as it used to be? Judging from the daily tracking polls, John McCain has seduced the base that up to now recognized him as the obstacle to Republican designs. Why are they turning toward him now?
It might be that the Republican base has softened on many of the issues that they once defied with conservative principle. They dismiss the senator’s vote against tax cuts because all they hear about is the mounting federal debt. His support for using global warming as a hammer to empower government seems to get lost in all of his ‘small government’ rhetoric. They are willing to ignore his support for the soft immigration bill because they see it as a reflection of his willingness to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. They don’t remember his collusion with the gang of 14 that undermined the president’s judicial choices, and begrudgingly respect the middle finger he gave to the religious right. They see his attack on the first amendment though McCain/Feingold as a stab at moneyed interests. He speaks the language of class warfare, demeans the opponents of his immigration plans as racists, won’t attend conservative gatherings such as the ACU as if to strengthen his independent credentials and the best he can say about the war in Iraq is that George Bush was wrong. What would possess Republicans to appoint him leader of our party? Can it be that they believe that only an anti-Republican who can win in November?
I can understand Republicans voting for Governor Huckabee even though he is a big government guy. I can see Republicans choosing Romney as their party leader even though they can’t believe all the crafty things he says. Mayor Giuliani might be a social liberal, but he’s charismatic and seems to know he won’t get far without the base supporting him. I can even understand why so many support Fred Thompson, even as his jovial approach is mistaken for laziness. But John McCain? The senator brags about his willingness to stand against his base and has shown time and again that he is a party of one. Doesn’t anyone remember that John McCain approached John Kerry about being his running mate in 2004? John Kerry seriously considered it! Furthermore, on the single most important issue, the judiciary – who can trust that John McCain will feel any compunction to appoint conservative judges? How can anyone trust a man who read the first amendment and understood it to mean it is OK to ban political speech sixty days before an election? Wouldn’t a conservative judge overturn that campaign finance bill pronto?
But the polls tell us that Republicans think John McCain represents Republican values. A glimpse of the candidates leading tell us that our voters need a government big enough to give us what we want, powerful enough to change the climate and intrusive enough to keep us secure and healthy. The government we’re asking for might be the government we deserve, and the line between the parties grows ever thinner. Something tells me we’re reliving the pre-Carter years en route to another federal debacle. Once we convince ourselves again of the arrogance and incompetence of our government, the adage that government is not the solution, but the problem will once again be in vogue, and it will be morning in America once again. But not until then.
John McCain is a war hero, a senior senator, and the Bernie Sanders of the Republican party. He can’t be trusted because he told us he won’t be trusted. He seems to think it a virtue, his willingness to backhand the people who voted for him. Why would anyone entrust the most powerful office in the world to John McCain?
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