Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:12:59 AM
I'm sick of hearing about John McCains conservatism.
One thing I'm really sick of is that I constantly see his "82%" lifetime rating as a conservative by some group who's name escapes me right now.
I have a problem with McCains stance on illegal aliens. "Immigration" as it's euphamistically called. A man who's first response is based in political demogoguery, and not enforcing American law is a man who is not a conservative at heart. How is it that a group of foreign law breakers can be so important to McCain and America, yet me, a citizen and real conservative, is the subject of such derision?
I have a problem with McCains "Gang of 14" stance on appointing judges. I know he has voted for conservative judges. I understand that. But I have a problem with a guy who basically abandons his party (and ostensibly his parties principles) to take an option off the table which could have been a great tool against political opponents. Yes if even just to make a point.
I have a problem with McCain-Feingold. It should be much more distressing than it apparently is for a "conservative" politician to sponsor and draw up legislation which renders the 1st Amendment irrelevant in American political discourse.
I have a problem with McCain constantly "reaching across the aisle" to liberals, while hamstringing fellow conservatives. Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, et al are not friends of conservatives and through their rhetoric, inaction, legislation and votes have proved time and again they are proufoundly anti-American, elitist, socialist defeatists bent on usurping true democratic process and furthering their own political power and rendering the citizenry of this nation serfs and servile to the state.
I am tired of McCain pandering to the "global warming" crowd. The only solution offered is to increase taxes through a "cap and trade" scheme and curtailing Americans liberties and freedom by mandating certain behaviors. There is nothing conservative in this stance. If anything, it more more progressive than conservative.
I am tired of hearing from conservative and Republican pundits and others that we must unite around McCain. We are told this because the alternative would be so much worse. I am tired of being told to have to vote against someone as opposed to voting for someone. that is not a conservative stance.
I am tired of hearing McCain say he would now vote to make certain tax cuts permanent when he twice voted against those same tax cuts. That to me is a man who is pandering, not a man of principle. A principled man would defend his original stance, not change it on a whim based on the political winds. It wouldn't be conservative, but at least it would be consistant.
How astute is a man who accepts and praises the endorsement of one of the most liberal rags, the New York Times? Then in just a matter of weeks, that same rag attacks you and conitnues to do so based on the most nebulous crap. You couldn't see that one coming? You couldn't see from the start that said rag was trying to influence the primary process? How conservative really is someone who has constantly received support from the main stream media which is itself so virulently anti-conservative?
All of this and more has been said by others much more astute than I. But I am the one who is casting my vote next week and then in November. I am the one who must reconcile my own principles, what I am willing to accept and what and how my choices may or may not affect my nation. Am I willing to become that which I dislike? Am I willing to foist an obvious bad choice on my nation for the sake of my own well being? Am I willing to do nothing and leave "Hope" to chance? None of these are easy questions and a lot of us out here in the Heartland will be wrestling with these and other issues for many months and perhaps many years.
Am I 100% American? Or am I willing to be an 82% American?
How about you?