February 03, 2008
John McCain Hates Me
Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself.
As I watched McCain and Governor Romney go at it during the debate at the Reagan Library I was struck by the huge gap that separates McCain -- whose contempt for his fellow humans is patently obvious -- and my dad, Ronald Reagan, who had nothing but the deepest affection and respect for the American people.
The feeling is mutual between McCain and me. I don’t like the way he treats people. You get the impression that he thinks everybody is beneath him. He seems to be saying, “I was a war hero, and you had damn well better treat me as your superior.”
He has contempt for conservatives who he thinks can be duped into thinking he’s one of them, despite such blatantly anti-conservative actions as his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants, his opposition to the Bush tax cuts which got the economy rolling again, and his campaign finance bill which skewed the political process and attacked free speech.
I am appalled by his contempt for the intelligence of his listeners when he flat-out lies and expects them to believe what he says even when the truth is staring them in the face.
A prime example cited by columnist Robert Novak was McCain’s denial that he had privately suggested that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was too conservative, insisting that he recalled saying no such thing, adding that Alito was a "magnificent" choice.
“In fact,” wrote Novak, “multiple sources confirm that the senator made negative comments about Alito nine months ago.”
In last night’s debate, McCain stubbornly defended his charge, false on the face of it, that Romney wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
"I have never, ever supported a specific timetable" for withdrawing troops, Romney said, adding that McCain's accusation on the eve of Tuesday's primary "sort of falls into the dirty tricks that I think Ronald Reagan would have found reprehensible.
What Romney said last April, was merely that U.S. and Iraqi leaders "have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about" in private, which in no way suggests he was in any sense talking about troop withdrawals.
Despite the evidence, McCain charged that "of course he said he wanted a timetable" for a withdrawal, even though he had never said any such thing. It was McCain daring to ask us if we wanted to believe our lying eyes or his demonstrably false allegation.
McCain must think conservatives are dumb enough to allow him to get away with claiming he’s one of them. This is from a man who opposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and who twice voted against President Bush’s tax cuts and sponsored the campaign-finance reform legislation that Romney claimed "took a whack at the First Amendment."
In John McCain’s eyes, conservatives are the Viet Cong of this generation and he treats us as such. It’s either his way or no way.
I despise his habit of talking down to us, like a wise father to an idiot son. He’s just at a loss to understand why everybody doesn’t grovel at his feet and accept his every word as wisdom handed down from his lofty perch atop Mt. Olympus.
I can’t help it. I know in my heart he hates me, and every conservative. If he gets the nomination the only way he could win against Hillary or Barack Obama would be to be part of a McCain-Limbaugh ticket.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at February 3, 2008 10:38 PM
Comments
A little much, no? Hate? The guy has his own ideas. You can easily turn those negatives into positives (which he will once he's the nominee). And what did Reagans dad do for immigration?
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at February 3, 2008 10:51 PM
Nelson, McCain is a lot of things, but one thing he is not is a conservative. The ironic thing is the one issue where I'm close to McCain is immigration. But my view is based on the economic principle of supply and demand. The reason people want to come here is to work and there are jobs for them. But do you agree with more gasoline taxes to try to reduce global warming? Do you agree with attacking the first amendment under the guise of cleaning up elections? Do you agree that we need more regulation on business and that seeking a profit is not an honorable thing. If you agree with those things, then you agree with John McCain. I don't agree with them therefore I can not abide by John McCain nomination. We'll see how electable the electable one is in November. We'll see how the media darling becomes the media punching bag. We'll see.
Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez at February 3, 2008 11:09 PM
Henry, if McCain wins the nomination (which it looks like he will) -- who are you voting for?
Posted by: Dave Sandoval at February 4, 2008 12:04 AM
I will not accept that McCain is the nominee until he gets the nomination, but I can tell you this, if he's this way now when he's supposed to be reaching out to his base, imagine what he'll be like when the primaries are in his rear view mirror. I'm urging everyone who is a Republican in a Super Tuesday state to vote for Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez at February 4, 2008 12:11 AM
The most annoying thing about a possible McCain nomination to me is the idea that we must then hold our noses and vote for him. I have already heard this a couple of times and it really makes me angry.
I have a few political beliefs that make me a Republican. McCain doesn't share these beliefs. So explain to me why I should be bullied into voting for him?
Should he, God forbid, get the nomination I will either write in Fred Thompson or vote for the Libertarian candidate. But I will not allow the Republican Party to move farther to the left and expect me to go along with it.
I see the possibility of a McCain nomination as proof of the bankruptcy of my party. He is simply the final straw in a series of acts of liberalism and a lack of fighting spirit that is turning me against the GOP.
But where does one go when the GOP isn't conservative?
Posted by: Alisa at February 4, 2008 10:46 AM
well you can always have this as an alternative:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080203/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp_31
Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at February 4, 2008 11:16 AM
Cigar Mike, reading the link you posted brings the word "boondogle" to mind. Can you imagine how expensive its going to be for the government to deduct?
Posted by: rsnlk at February 4, 2008 11:32 AM
This is obviously a minor point, even petty, but have you all noticed Mrs. McCain? The words plastic trophy wife come to mind. I'm actually surprised he hasn't told her to tone herself down a bit. She is NOT an asset, certainly not in her current packaging.
Posted by: asombra at February 4, 2008 11:44 AM
It's not over till its over folks. Just because the pundits are telling us McCain is going to win, doesn't make it so. I don't think the American public likes being lied to. I think Romney has an excellent chance of pulling this out, so like Henry says, get out there and vote.
Posted by: Ziva at February 4, 2008 03:27 PM
It says a lot about McCain that the most inspirational thing you can say about him is that he's not as liberal as Hillary. Is that what we're supposed to get excited about?
Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez at February 4, 2008 04:44 PM
Right ... McCain isn't as liberal as Hilary so we should vote for him. And how much less liberal is he? A little bit. He's pro-war. But let's be honest, Hillary isn't going to lose the war on her watch. She's far too vain for that. So as far as I am concerned on that issue she ties him.
As for the other issues it is far too obvious that he is overly willing to "work" with the left. Have we learned nothing from Bush's presidency? Remember how he said he would reach accross party lines to work with the left? What was his reward? He was bit. Over and over again.
The left isn't interested in working with us or getting along with us or doing what is best for the country. They stab us every chance they get and we stammer and gulp and feel swell because we took the hight road. Whatever.
So we are supposed to vote for this guy who doesn't hold our same values just to defeat a person that is going to be slightly worse than he is? And then what? Who will we be forced to hold our noses and vote for next?
The GOP is moving more and more to the left and it is dragging us along with it like it or not. Why? Because we hold our noses and vote for the guy that we don't really like, who doesn't share our political beliefs but, by golly, we have to do it!
Maybe we all need a little tough love. Maybe we need to remind everyone of what the Carter years were like by living through the Hillary or Obama years. Maybe that is what it will take for us to be able to take our party back to what it was. But to kowtow to BS pressure from the party that has pretty much abandoned us is behavior that is unconservative. Where is our strength?
So I have to suffer under Hillary. So be it. But unlike the GOP leadership I will not abandon my principles and what I feel are the stands on issues that make me a conservative. If the GOP is going to act like democrats then it will receive the same number of votes from me that the democrats will ... none.
It is we who are allowing the leftward shift in the GOP. We stood up to them with McCain-Kennedy. That should have been a wake up call. Now we should stand up to them again against McCain and any other BS they try to pass on to us.
Posted by: Alisa at February 5, 2008 12:38 AM
Spot on, Alisa. Spot on.
Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez at February 5, 2008 12:45 AM