Is John McCain Losing Conservative Support?
Posted on May 23, 2008
Pundits are making their speculations about McCain’s rejection of the endorsements of Hagee and Parsely and wondering how much of the evangelical block he will lose for this. I’m not too worried about that. I don’t think it will be much. John McCain isn’t a candidate for conservatives to rally around, he is the candidate that stands in the way of an Obama presidency. No, this stuff is a yawn and will pass. What worries me is John McCain’s past patterns of stabbing conservatives in the back to “reach across the aisle”. What worries me is John McCain betraying the trust of conservatives. McCain flip-flops on immigration.
In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders [in San Jose] today that comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next president…
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”
He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”
So much for the promise to secure the border first!
John Hawkins of Right Wing News catches McCain contradicting himself on his earlier statements about immigration and can no longer support the man for President.
Put very simply: John McCain is a liar. He’s a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his “Read my lips, no new taxes pledge,” except that Bush’s father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.
Under these circumstances, I simply cannot continue to support a man like John McCain for the presidency.
Also see Michelle Malkin’s post on this.
Allahpundit is writing in Hillary? Also see Dan Rhiel’s roundup.
Others: Andrew Sullivan, Sister Toldjah, Captain Ed, OTB, Steven Taylor all look at things from a different perspective.
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Hagee, Parsley…who cares. Is McCain a liar? In the way all politicians are liars I guess. Is McCain a conservative? No.
My only decision, as a conservative, is if I believe the country could survive an Obama administration. If McCain would be running against Lieberman I would vote Lieberman.
Is Obama a gun to my head? I ask this because that is what it will take to have me vote for McCain.
I think he’s been quite consistent. At no time have I heard McCain claim he would secure the border. He has always lobbied for “comprehensive reform” — which has always meant, for McCain, complete and total amnesty and open borders for any and all.
I would likely be called an “evangelical” by the majority of people, and I don’t care that McCain rejected Hagee. However, I do care abuot McCain’s position on Illegal Immigration and AGW. His positions on these issues are wrong - dead wrong, and will cause problems for the US. He is losing my support on these and similar issues.
What about the Supreme Court?
What about the war on terror?
What about Iraq?
There’s a heck of a lot more going on that immigration reform. Check out what I wrote last night at The Pink Flamingo and the manipulation of lobbyists on this issue.
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
Juan Mexicain a liar? Well, of course he is! He’s a 100%, dyed-in-the-wool American politician *spit*. I cringed when I read he’d said we needed to secure our borders before prostating ourselves to the invading horde already here (well, I just translated what he actually said into honest speech), because it gave some naive folks an esxcuse to say, “Well, he’s an honorable man, so at least we’ll get that much from him.”
“honorable man”? He’s Juan Mexicain. His chief ambition in life is to become a lapdog to a Mexican president while ceding everything else he can to the anarcho-tyrannist statists on the Left.
And yet he’s a better option than Barry Hussein Obama-Winfrey.
I know it’s a pipe dream, but would that the electorate would support a candidate (ANY candidate) with balls (ok, courage, gumption, whatever), brains and principles. Sad that it’s come to the place where we KNOW that the only safe assumption we can make about “our” politicians is that they have none of those.
But if one such should surface, I doubt the electorate would vote for ‘em.
Remember:
“In a democracy (”rule by mob”), those who refuse to learn from history are usually in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county’s corollary to Santayana’s Axiom