In the Republican primary, I support John McCain. Why? Because in 24 years in DC, McCain has never – not once – asked for, inserted, or received an earmark for Arizona. He is strictly anti-corruption.
Conservatives seem to want the details of the budget to remain in the closet – like their patrons, Larry Craig and David Vitter and Mark Foley and Tom DeLay and so many others. The conservative brand has been broken by these people – and their defenders like Hastert, Coulter, Ingraham, Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Bruce. Defending the indefensible has drawn a very bright line between COnservatives and Republicans.
One third does not constitute the “Base.” It constitutes the FRINGE. Conservative is NOT on the ballot – Republican IS.
If you are a Republican, then vote REPUBLICAN. Support John McCain.
Ask yourself a question. Are the politics of outrage what you want? Or the politics of change? Of hope? Of making a difference?
The best thing about being an American is that we get to choose our leaders. And since I’m all about Gen X making a generational declaration of independence, I am linking to all manner of cool things from my two favorite presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.
Earlier today, someone in the Obama camp sent me this link to the Yes We Can video. It’s happy, and features John Legend, Nicole Scherzinger of the PussyCat Dolls, Common among quite a few others. Unlike Hillary and her girls Ann & Tammy.
As bright and successful as these pundits are, something divides them from Bill Bennett – and it is not only ideology. It is experience. Bill Bennett has been in the trenches for many years. He knows what it’s like to develop or implement policy – but also to walk a precinct and meet the real people whose lives are affected by policy. Which is different than a feelgoodbaskinmyglowcuzi’mfamousforbeingconservative thing. Being a political and policy practitioner is not necessarily better than being Ann Coulter – but it is different.
The anti-McCain movement among Conservatives all remind me of Patrick Buchanan. He will forever be the Conservative who was so far right, that he was darn-near Left. And then he was courting Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa.
Finally, as a member of the fair sex… I can’t help but wonder what deep desire drives her to choose a woman like Hillary over Senator McCain. As you’ll see in this clip below, which I found thanks to Captain Ed, Ms. Coulter has pulled a Buchanan and is officially Left. She certainly is hostile to McCain’s record as a POW / Veteran. Perhaps a man in uniform broke her heart somewhere along the way. Perhaps that man spoiled her for all others. I haven’t a clue. But seething rage usually is about more than issues. It is usually personal. Whatever the narrative, Ms. Coulter is leading her band of “conservatives” across a bridge too far.
Perhaps if she leads the conservatives back underneath the Clintons desk, they will get all the answers they yearn for regarding Bill’s sexual dominance and proclivities. With any luck, they’ll stay there long enough for the rest of the country to vet John McCain and Barack Obama – then let the best man win.
