Back on April 5, 2001, Mark Levin wrote in the National Review Online that:
McCain was the only Republican implicated in the Keating Five scandal, yet today he lectures his party and his president about “the corrupting influence” of money in politics. He rails against the so-called “wealthy special interests” and their ability to buy access to elected officials, yet this is precisely what the Keating Five scandal was all about. And, of course, under McCain’s current standard, a politician who takes a principled position that may benefit a donor is corrupt, even if no law has been violated.
The John McCain of old should be thankful that his political fate wasn’t determined by John McCain the reformer.
Hat tip to Honest Conservative.
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McLame is a RINO of the absolute first magnitude. I keep praying for him, but he still doesn’t retire to the oblivion that he so richly deserves!! AAARRGH!!!
He is a very scary man.
What are those folks in New Hampshire thinking? When it comes to denying his support for amnesty, he is a bold faced liar. When it comes to campaign finance reform, he is an unapologetic hypocrite. I think we need to change our vetting process when it comes to nominating candidates, and New Hampshire should be the poster child for this. Maybe ethanol and other farm subsidies wouldn’t be shoved down all of our throats as hard if it weren’t for Iowa’s undeserved king making status that demands the remuneration of agricultural pandering for payment. Maybe there should be some kind of lottery system adopted by the parties to determine the primary and caucus systems’ structures. Instead of Iowa and New Hampshire every stinking time, early states would be chosen through a randomization process. It’s simply too easy for the powers that be to control the eventual outcomes of the nomination process. This will always benefit the Democrats more due to the fact that they love and survive by knee jerk populism and requisite pandering. I respect McCain’s military service to our country, but he needs to go quietly into that great night of political irrelevance.
I never remember a Republican on the wrong side of so many Conservative issues as McCain has been. He is the most popular unpopular Republican among the base. Unfortunately the voting population is a lot larger than the base.
In a World where decisions are often based upon sound bites people still think McCain is a Hot Shot. Just ask an Independent or a Democrat who figured out that the current crop of Democrat candidates are not Presidential material and you can bet that they will try and prove how fair-minded they are by throwing their support for McCain. When they are pressed they will reveal that they know nothing about the Keating Five, his illegal immigration stance, McCain/Feingold or his position on the interrogation of terrorists. On the other hand if you ask the liberal base about McCain they will quickly reveal that they know a lot about the Keating Five.
McCain gets his support from those who really don’t know him and only see that he is a Republican war hero. He is aided and abetted by the MSM who very well know about the Keating Five and will use that knowledge to defeat him. Without a doubt this issue will not be brought up by the MSM until after McCain is nominated. At that point they would attempt to defeat the second best liberal in the hope of getting the best liberal elected. They will take Hillary over McCain anytime. If they lose and McCain should ever become President then they at least have the most liberal RINO that has ever existed. He is a Catch 22 for Conservatives and an insurance policy for liberals.
Tim, he still doesn’t deny his support for amnesty. He states that he has learned that the American people want a fence first and immigration reform second. That is what he has learned? His reform is amnesty and he has not said that he thinks any differently or would do less if and after a fence is ever built. More than that, as a leader and an elected official, he should have seen, from the first, that America is being seriously wounded and permanently damaged by illegal immigration. We are being aggressively Latinized while our elected representatives, not only stand on the sidelines watching hospitals close, crime rise, educational facilities break budgets and subsidy spending overrun its’ allotted dollars and intended purposes, but some aid and abet this invasion. Chief among those that did this was John McCain. He was, in fact, a substantial part of the architecture of the problem and not a bit of any solution.
Hi Task, I’m pretty sure I saw him on a couple of days ago denying he ever wanted amnesty for illegals, (the bold faced lie). I can’t figure out why Fred isn’t getting more solid conservative support, but he’s not. There’s an old country song that says “all that glitters, is not gold”, and in today’s environment people want flash instead of substance. McCain has always been their media darling, and they still treat him with kid gloves when it comes to his, shall we say truth inconsistentcies. I think his amnesty denial was on Russert, but I may be wrong. Happy New Year
Tim, even when he supported the Amnesty Bill he argued that it wasn’t amnesty. We know that was not a mischaracterization but a lie, but it was not cast as such. Other than being caught outright under oath politicians will say that they meant something else, made a mistake or possibly changed their mind. Only BJ Clinton and Harry Reed are arrogant and bold enough to state that what they were caught on tape saying they never said. Even under oath in BJ’s case. The Bill was amnesty pure and simple. Despite McCain’s stated position he supported it and therefore supported amnesty. From a politician’s perspective supporting amnesty comes down to their definition vs. ours; it depends upon the meaning of the word “isâ€Â. This is a Clinton legacy.
McCain doesn’t feel he ever lied nor does he feel McCain/Feingold abridges the most precious speech of all… political speech. He doesn’t feel that his position on the interrogation of terrorists is outside his job as a legislator. He is not the Chief Executive. Now I may be wrong but this man has such a flawed understanding of what he stands for and what he is doing that in his mind he truly believes that he never supported amnesty. Such a comprehension dysfunction at the top of the chain disqualifies him from the Presidency. There are many massive differences between Conservatives and liberals but chief among them is immigration. What is most significant and fascinating is that the liberals need support from Democrats that are on the Conservative side on this issue yet we have McCain who is on the liberal side.
What glitters is what the MSM wants to sell us. It is the gold of fools. People really do want the real thing just like a fish that takes an artificial lure because he thought it was real wanted something else. He pays a price and so will we. Staying healthy and alive personally or politically is work. Understanding conservatism is especially hard because we are indoctrinated with liberalism. That is why ML and others try and sort this out and do the clean up and clean out. If we had a conservative media on our side we would win all the time. That is also why they so hate talk radio and the net.
Happy New Year!
Task, amen my brother! BJ learned what “is” really meant, from a large blue dress that held his spent! This moral relativism is killing us. I know it’s been going on for at least 20 years, because my lib professors were indoctrinating us with the “perception is reality” nonsense that so prevails everything today back then. I shudder to think where we’d be without Rush et. al. demonstrating the absurdity of liberal nonsense on a daily basis. Have a good one.
Here’s what you need to know about the New Hampshire primary:
It is not a closed primary, in which votes can be cast in a party primary only by people registered with that party. New Hampshire Independents – people not registered with any party – can vote in either party primary. However, it does not meet a common definition of an open primary, because people registered as Republican or Democrat on voting day cannot cast ballots in the primary of the other party.
McCain has always attracted the Independent (Liberal) voters. That is why he will do well in New Hampshire, but will crash and burn in South Carolina. I wouldn’t worry about him.
MLF, I sure hope you’re right. It’s been pretty disturbing watching the rise of Huckabee and McLame lately. Romney is my second choice to Thompson, but it’s amazing how his commercials highlighting FACTS about these rinos are met with the condemnation charge of negative campaigning by them as if the tone is the only thing that matters and not the truth. If they can’t handle the scrutiny of this vetting process, they should never have gotten into the race.
That’s right, tim ! If they “can’t stand the heat” they should “GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN!!” Amen, my brethren!! Right on!!
Their rise, especially McLame, is partly due to the media…either one, in their view (and they might be right) are mostly defeatable by the Dems. Both are much more liberal than they would like us toe realize…