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You Have to Make a Choice

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rhinoMcCain’s in the media again.  Hot Air has a couple of videos of him being himself, and as a proper maverick supporter, there’s no way I’ll ever post them here.  Normally I would start the jokes about the whole “supporting his fellow Democrat” thing, but it’s time to put the funny aside for a moment.

2010 is coming.  We get the chance to stop simply protesting and actually do something about our government again.  There’s just one catch.  People like McCain, and specifically McCain, will insure that the Republicans are not any sort of an opposition party if they remain.

I have no problem with the fact he lost in 2008, even given all of what we’ve been through with Obama.  We’re fighting something we were going to fight anyway, and after four years of McCain, we would have been in a worse position to do so.  There would be no Tea Party movement, which we’ll also need to protest idiocy in a future Republican controlled government, if he had won.  And no, he would not have offered any significant resistance to the Democrat agenda.  He would be “reaching across the aisle” nonstop, and conservatives would be taking the fall for his behavior, just as we did under Bush.

Now, he’s up for re-election in the Senate in 2010, and Arizona has not one chance but two to be rid of him.  They could very well blow them both.  He has a lot in his background to make him sympathetic, foremost among them being his POW ordeal.  Some might look at him and say he’s just a bit misguided but otherwise honorable, the “deeply flawed servant of the people” he occasionally pretends to be.  Some believe he deserves our support and a hell of a lot better than he gets on a blog like mine.

As for me, I’m going to call it like I see it:  McCain has got to go.  There is no real opposition to the Democrats in the Republican party so long as he continues to interfere.

Think of him what you will, but you have to make a choice.  McCain has undermined the Republicans in the past to the point they can’t oppose anything.  He’s given the Democrats the cover of bipartisanship in exchange for having his name first on one of their bills.  He’s made the Senate “Gangs of Undermining” fashionable.  He gleefully poked you in the eye for his puff press and his Presidential ambitions, and if re-elected, he will do so again.

This means a Republican victory in 2010 is worthless so long as he’s in the Senate.  However conflicted you may be about him (if you are), one fact remains.  He can either retain his Senate seat or lose it.  It’s all strictly binary.  You already know what he’ll do with it once he wins it, his current pretense to conservatism notwithstanding.

Six more years of “My friends…” is waiting.  Time for you to decide which side of his re-election aspirations you’re on, and get to work.  Right now.

Time to Feed the Base

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crystalballNo jokes now, folks.  It’s zero flak time.

This isn’t what we really needed right now, but it’s what we’re going to get.

Holder has decided to release the results of another internal investigation into CIA interrogations.  Now, they’re advising Obama to expect larger than normal turnover, and Panetta is upset.  If you actually want to fight the war against jihadis and keep us from getting hit again, this is not good news.

If you’re Obama, this means you get to feed the base.  They haven’t been getting what they want here lately, after all.  Disastercare and cap-and-trade are stalled and losing ground, poll numbers are plunging, and the great Socialist Utopia isn’t dawning on the horizon.  I’m guessing Obama’s decided that something better go the right  here soon, politically speaking.

The fact that this, and a planned criminal investigation, could well leave us virtually blind and deaf doesn’t much seem to concern the President.  The liberal base is hungry, and so they get their red meat.  The fact they were created by irresponsible Democrat rhetoric in the first place is of no relevance to them at all.

Oh yeah.  McCain is one of those who voted with his fellow Democrats to confirm Holder, along with the Official Maverick Lapdog Lindsey Graham (Pomeranian – SC).  So it’s time for another round of the Chris Simcox Drinking Game.  If you don’t already know, Chris Simcox is McCain’s primary opponent in the Arizona Senate race.  If you don’t happen to like what McCain, Graham, or any other RINO twit happens to be doing right now, find out what this game is all about.

Recess Rally Updates

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teacupHi folks.

If you want to see some Recess Rally updates, Memeorandum has some for you.  My thanks to the Riehl World View for pointing me at them.

Sadly, it looks like there wasn’t one for my Congressman Rob Wittman (VA).  At least I didn’t see any when I drove by his offices and checked.  Fortunately, I still get the chance to hear him talk at a town hall meeting on the 31st.  I’ll let you know how it goes.

We Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Maverick

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rhinoThe MSNBC posted a decent analysis piece about McCain’s new voting trends titled McCain:  Maverick No More? It’s about how he’s backing his party and proposing alternative amendments to Democrat disasters here lately.  Not only that, but as a solid, impassive, information-reporting piece, it suggests that MSNBC must have put sedatives in the water to keep their reporters from writing what they feel.

Seriously, you know that somewhere, there’s an MSNBC reporter (or dozens) blubbering something along the lines of “MaverickGoByeBye!  AUGH!” and running the counselors attempting to keep them sane ragged.  So being the decent fellow I am, I’m going to give them some comfort.  Ladies and gentlemen of the mainstream media and specifically MSNBC…

MCCAIN’S CONVERSION IS TEMPORARY

This is the second time in two cycles that McCain has become more conservative outside of an election.  It’s McCain trying to get re-elected to his Senate seat.  But unlike the Presidential race, this time McCain is actually trying.

Why would he go through so much trouble now?

  1. I don’t know any conservatives that voted for him in 2008.  I know a lot of conservatives that voted against Obama or for Palin, but none that voted for McCain.  Guess which two people aren’t going to be issues in the 2010 Arizona Senate race, where he has to stand on his own merits?
  2. But first, he has to get to the Arizona general election.  McCain has a primary challenger, one Chris Simcox.  As McCain’s real record and behavior are giant albatrosses around his neck, he has to try hard to create some amnesia.  Otherwise, he’s going to be the only party leader I know ever to be primaried in the middle of his term.
  3. About the only point of agreement I have with the Democrats is that we should get rid of McCain.  If I was alone in this, McCain would be mavericky business as usual.  But I’m not, or 20% of all conservatives wouldn’t have protest voted for Obama.  Apparently this, the fact he’s not entitled to conservative support, or that he can no longer take his base for granted hasn’t been lost on him after his presidential mavericking.

So, don’t be afraid, MSNBC.  It’s just a question of patience on your part.  Happy maverick days are coming soon after November 2010.  But for now, McCain has to get through 2010 with his job.