IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER
Conservative bloggers The MSM is now so busy writing the post-mortem of the McCain campaign, they aren’t watching the real story. At Race42008, Doug Forrester is burying the GOP. I seem to remember reading the same thing about the DNC four years ago. What a difference two weeks and a much hyped financial crises make. Consequently the MSM is barraging us with a litany of very important Republican and conservative pundits and officials who are wringing their hands and burying John McCain.
We're also being treated to a pre-post-mortan by the usual liberal sources. The Raw Story misquotes Bill Crystal about how McCain is running a stupid campaign, then how McCain was booed on Friday. It suddenly has dawned on me, The Raw Story is right. John McCain is running a stupid campaign. It is stupid to expect honor, decency, and the MSM to tell the truth. It is stupid to even begin to expect a fair shake when it comes to the fawning and slobbering supporters of The One to do anything but slobber and piddle all over themselves when dealing with the one.
Victor Davis Hanson writes:
"...Obama, as I have said ad nauseam, has brilliantly prepped the battlefield to such a degree that a Farrakhan endorsement or surrogates calling Palin a quasi-Nazi or a bimbo, or smearing McCain as near senile is irrelevant; yet one screamer in a crowd of tens of thousands is proof of McCain’s and Palin’s racism and hatred...."
We are being told that the conservatives who opposed John McCain were right and we should have listened to them. David Freddoso of the NRO writes in the NYPost:
Once Heather MacDonald weighted in with her psudo-elite conservativism, I realized we're dealing with a conservative "hit" on John McCain. I've been expecting it. When MacDonald, Malkin, and Viguerie are involved, I suspect John Tanton is not far behind. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he's the one who ordered it.
P. S. A Pink Flamingo reader just called MacDonald "Reptilian". I like so agree.
It is too early to tell if this is a general trend, which I do not think it is, or that the Obama-lovin' MSM is trying to dispirit the GOP. I have a tendency to think it is the latter. The bottom line is to stay strong and not allow the MSM to constantly manipulate us. We have just a few more days. We're gaining in the polls. Don't blow it!
"...Could any Republican have risen to the task this year of winning a presidential election? We will never know the answer to that question. But John McCain has less than a month now to prove that he was not the wrong man to beat Barack Obama. As much as conservatives hope he can prove otherwise, they are watching this election now with dread...."
Soren Dayton wonders if there is still a chance for John McCain. If he really wants it. We are told that in Florida, the blame game has begun. You might want to read between the lines here. Evidently my original opinion of Charlie Crist was just about right."...The GOP jitters have spread quickly in a state where Republicans have enjoyed a decade of political dominance, said Sen. Mike Fasano, a Republican from New Port Richey in Pasco County, the state's premier bellwether county.
''Right now, a lot of people who support the McCain-Palin ticket are concerned,'' he said. ``They see what is broadcast on TV and see the poll numbers and are worried.''
He says he is encouraged that despite ``all that has happened, the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin are still within striking distance tells you something.''
Crist, a self-described optimist, had a rosy view of McCain's campaign in the state: ``I think they're doing a fine job. You can always do more.''
George LeMieux, Crist's former campaign manager and staff chief, said McCain erred in not choosing Crist as running mate.
''If Gov. Crist was the vice presidential nominee, John McCain would be winning Florida,'' he said. ``But I think McCain still has a very good chance of winning Florida. Whichever candidate has a better economic plan is going to be the winner.''..."
McCain is alienating the base?''Right now, a lot of people who support the McCain-Palin ticket are concerned,'' he said. ``They see what is broadcast on TV and see the poll numbers and are worried.''
He says he is encouraged that despite ``all that has happened, the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin are still within striking distance tells you something.''
Crist, a self-described optimist, had a rosy view of McCain's campaign in the state: ``I think they're doing a fine job. You can always do more.''
George LeMieux, Crist's former campaign manager and staff chief, said McCain erred in not choosing Crist as running mate.
''If Gov. Crist was the vice presidential nominee, John McCain would be winning Florida,'' he said. ``But I think McCain still has a very good chance of winning Florida. Whichever candidate has a better economic plan is going to be the winner.''..."
"... Richard Viguerie, a prominent conservative activist, openly blasted McCain’s support for the financial stabilization package and called his proposal for the federal purchase of mortgages “throwing money at the problem.”
“There are free-market solutions he could propose that don’t come to his mind because the advice he’s getting from his people is to spend money,” said Viguerie, who said McCain’s team of advisers is full of former lobbyists and other Washington insiders.
Viguerie said McCain is not a true conservative because a true conservative “would have proposed a free-market solution and McCain never proposed any free-market solution.”
Viguerie said McCain urged House Republicans to pass the rescue package so he could change the focus of the presidential campaigns away from the economy.
“He wanted to get this off the national table and get it behind him,” said Viguerie. “He didn’t care how much money was on the table.”
Viguerie and other conservative activists wanted McCain to propose cutting capital gains taxes and business taxes as an alternative way to jumpstart the economy and restore the flow of credit.
Conservatives would have also liked McCain to push for reform or abolition of the Community Reinvestment Act, which conservatives claim pressured banks to lend to risky borrowers. The act was intended to encourage banks to meet “the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations,” according to the Federal Reserve.
The Club for Growth, a leading advocate for smaller government and lower taxes, came out strongly against the bailout.
The Club has urged McCain push for several of the same proposals endorsed by Viguerie: eliminating capital gains taxes and cutting corporate tax rates.
Conservative commentator George Will has noted that conservatives don’t like the Homeownership Resurgence Plan McCain unveiled at last week’s debate. The proposal calls for the government to buy mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers and replace them with more affordable fixed-rate mortgages.
“He proposes several hundred billions more for his American Homeownership Resurgence — you cannot have too many surges — Plan,” Will wrote in a column Thursday.
“Under it, the government would buy mortgages that homeowners cannot — or perhaps would just rather not — pay, and replace them with cheaper ones. When he proposed this, conservatives participating in MSNBC's "dial group" wrenched their dials in a wrist-spraining spasm of disapproval.”
Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger, slammed McCain’s proposal in recent dispatch.
“I can’t underscore enough what a rotten idea John McCain’s ACORN-like government mortgage buy-up is,” Malkin wrote.
“He spent the entire debate assailing massive government spending — while his featured proposal of the night was to heap on more massive government spending to pursue homeownership/retention at all costs.”..."
Talk about rounding up the usual suspects! Michelle Malkin is only supporting John McCain because of Sarah Palin. Of all the "conservatives" she is the first one I felt would crack under the pressure and denounce McCain. George Will is a closet moderate. He's no more reliable than a two year old and potty training. Richard Viguerie is NOT A REPUBLICAN. He took over the Libertarian Party for Bob Barr and for his boss, Sun Myung Moon. Yep - these are the usual suspects. Add Pursuing Holiness to the list. “There are free-market solutions he could propose that don’t come to his mind because the advice he’s getting from his people is to spend money,” said Viguerie, who said McCain’s team of advisers is full of former lobbyists and other Washington insiders.
Viguerie said McCain is not a true conservative because a true conservative “would have proposed a free-market solution and McCain never proposed any free-market solution.”
Viguerie said McCain urged House Republicans to pass the rescue package so he could change the focus of the presidential campaigns away from the economy.
“He wanted to get this off the national table and get it behind him,” said Viguerie. “He didn’t care how much money was on the table.”
Viguerie and other conservative activists wanted McCain to propose cutting capital gains taxes and business taxes as an alternative way to jumpstart the economy and restore the flow of credit.
Conservatives would have also liked McCain to push for reform or abolition of the Community Reinvestment Act, which conservatives claim pressured banks to lend to risky borrowers. The act was intended to encourage banks to meet “the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations,” according to the Federal Reserve.
The Club for Growth, a leading advocate for smaller government and lower taxes, came out strongly against the bailout.
The Club has urged McCain push for several of the same proposals endorsed by Viguerie: eliminating capital gains taxes and cutting corporate tax rates.
Conservative commentator George Will has noted that conservatives don’t like the Homeownership Resurgence Plan McCain unveiled at last week’s debate. The proposal calls for the government to buy mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers and replace them with more affordable fixed-rate mortgages.
“He proposes several hundred billions more for his American Homeownership Resurgence — you cannot have too many surges — Plan,” Will wrote in a column Thursday.
“Under it, the government would buy mortgages that homeowners cannot — or perhaps would just rather not — pay, and replace them with cheaper ones. When he proposed this, conservatives participating in MSNBC's "dial group" wrenched their dials in a wrist-spraining spasm of disapproval.”
Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger, slammed McCain’s proposal in recent dispatch.
“I can’t underscore enough what a rotten idea John McCain’s ACORN-like government mortgage buy-up is,” Malkin wrote.
“He spent the entire debate assailing massive government spending — while his featured proposal of the night was to heap on more massive government spending to pursue homeownership/retention at all costs.”..."
Once Heather MacDonald weighted in with her psudo-elite conservativism, I realized we're dealing with a conservative "hit" on John McCain. I've been expecting it. When MacDonald, Malkin, and Viguerie are involved, I suspect John Tanton is not far behind. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he's the one who ordered it.
P. S. A Pink Flamingo reader just called MacDonald "Reptilian". I like so agree.
It is too early to tell if this is a general trend, which I do not think it is, or that the Obama-lovin' MSM is trying to dispirit the GOP. I have a tendency to think it is the latter. The bottom line is to stay strong and not allow the MSM to constantly manipulate us. We have just a few more days. We're gaining in the polls. Don't blow it!
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