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October 5, 2008
The Democrat Case for McCain
There are two things Republicans and Democrats can agree on: 1) John McCain is a flawed candidate; and 2) he is infinitely preferable to Barack Obama. Tom In Paine makes the Democrat case for McCain. Highlights:
The truth is, there are more good reasons to defeat Obama and the Obamacrats than to elect him, even for the staunchest of Democrats.
For those who actually think Barack Obama is qualified to be President, no amount of truth, logic or reason is going to change their minds. To do so means having to admit they were taken in and made fools of, and as any cop will tell you, most con men get away with their con because their marks are so embarrassed to admit they were taken they just keep quiet.
Obama is simply unfit to be President in any way. Whether it was his serial lying about his relationship with Jeremiah Wright and what he knew and when he knew it, and the fact that he was more than willing to tolerate Wright's views of 911, and his views on race and never felt offended enough to walk out, to his lying to the people of Ohio about NAFTA and his other reversals and broken pledges on everything from public financing of campaigns to FISA, he is simply not someone you want to take home to the White House.
Aside from his dishonesty, clinical narcissism and almost pathological lack of conscience, he has no ability to do the job he is seeking and has never in his life ever exhibited even the smallest evidence that he could do it. On the basis of integrity, there is nothing to consider. Obama has no integrity and as far as we can see from his past, never did.
McCain on the other hand, though one can disagree with some of his policies, has in fact demonstrated that he is willing to stand up for what he believes, and more importantly, stand up to Republicans […] Like it or not, the record shows McCain is the real reformer and the real deal, while Obama is what most of the 18 million Democrats who voted against him know him to be — a snake oil salesman who has managed to bamboozle a lot of dumb, and impressionable people […] especially the dumb media blonds like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and almost everyone at Newsweek, the NY times and CNN who he has eating out of hand.
The other thing to keep in mind about McCain is that he is rated last by conservative groups in supporting conservative legislation. His voting record is ranked 49th among Republican Senators by conservative watch dog groups which is why a lot of conservatives cant stand him. In other words, disaffected liberal Democrats who cant possibly in good conscience vote for Obama could do a lot worse than bringing McCain home to mother.
How absurd is the idea of Obama as President? Think about Obama being put in charge of the country's nuclear codes.
If I were certain America could survive four years of Obama, I'd be tempted to lay out the conservative case for voting for him. An Obama Administration would leave the Democrat Party in ruins for at least a generation. Remember David Dinkins? Even ultra-liberal New York City has never elected a Democrat Mayor since. If Dinkins led to Giuliani, and Carter led to Reagan, Obama ought to lead to George Washington's return from the grave. Also, imagine how people will turn on the mainstream media once they realize the bill of goods they've been sold.
However, an unprincipled left-wing radical with a life-long habit of surrounding himself with people who vehemently hate America could do enough damage that the idea of just letting the Democrats crash the bus and take the consequences is out of the question. Conservatives and liberals alike have a duty to put the good of the country first by keeping this tasteless joke away from the White House.
On a tip from Kathleen.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 5, 2008 8:16 PM
Comments
It's good to be vigilant.
But I'm not completely given-up.
Ever hear of the ol' October Surprise?
Obambi is goin' down!
McCain is going to stuff a proverbial hand grenade in Barry's pants and walk away whistling.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 5, 2008 8:41 PM
Well, that author was trying to do something, but he didn't actually make any case at all. The strongest evidence he has for a Dem. to vote for Obama is Jeremiah Wright? Granted, Wright is wicked crazy, and we have no idea where he is right now (I assume somewhere in Rick Davis's basement), but someone's preacher? McCain's got his own preacher problem, as does Palin, and Biden's got the Catholic church on his ass about abortion.
What about policy? This Tom fella attacks Obama on many vague things like his "narcissism." His "lack of conscience." His "integrity," or apparent (?) lack thereof. The problem with these kinds of arguments is that they're hollow if you start thinking about McCain, who has run such an "honorable" campaign that treats Obama as if he hates America, a man who cries "POW" every time someone attacks his integrity or calls him out when he lies. Talk about narcissism.
McCain can win this on the issues, if he wants to. But it's obvious to me that he doesn't want to, and the he's not the John McCain of 2000. Which is why I'm voting for someone who wants to talk about issues. Who doesn't campaign on fear.
When someone gets around to making a "why Democrats should vote for McCain" that talks policy, I'll be happy to read it.
Posted by: Madison at October 5, 2008 9:06 PM
"Also, imagine how people will turn on the mainstream media once they realize the bill of goods they've been sold."
Of course, that would require people to realize they've been sold a bill of goods, and that's not likely to happen with the MSM being in the tank for Obama. They will spin all of his non-accomplishments as true progressive movement forward...
Posted by: Scott at October 5, 2008 10:09 PM
First off let me say Van Helsing, excellent article to post and your response was spot on. Already by the response of Madison shows this.
Posted by: Parker at October 5, 2008 10:10 PM
"a man who cries "POW" every time someone attacks his integrity or calls him out when he lies"
How is that worse than the continued "racism" charges against McCain for speaking the TRUTH?
Posted by: Anonymous at October 5, 2008 10:10 PM
"For those who actually think Barack Obama is qualified to be President, no amount of truth, logic or reason is going to change their minds."
I don't think truer words have ever been spoken in the history of mankind. Okay, major hyperbole - right up there with "This is the moment the world has been waiting for."
"How is that worse than the continued "racism" charges against McCain for speaking the TRUTH?"
Well, there is a difference. McCain doesn't cry "POW" every time he is criticized, but Obama does play the race card every time he is.
Posted by: SpideyTerry at October 6, 2008 1:17 AM
The Ass Beating is coming in 4 weeks. I think it is time to get used to Democratic Administration.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2008 6:42 AM
An Obama administration could lead to a conservative revival, or it could lead to the permanent marginalization of conservatism. Obama will be able to appoint enough Supreme Court justices to ensure liberal judicial activism dominates for the next 20 years. With Obama as President and supermajorities in both houses, there will be no one to stop congress from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, and perhaps extending censorship to the internet. The MSM has re-asserted control of the narrative since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Without their cover and active endorsement, Obama would be 20 points behind. In a world where the opposition is silenced, it seems more than likely that they will be able to continue to sell Obamunism going forward. And every year the public education system spits out another 3 million indoctrinated new voters. That will be another 12 million by 2012. The results of this election may be much more serious than four years of chaos.
Posted by: Beef at October 6, 2008 6:51 AM
The arguments for the potential benefits for an Obama presidency I think serve to drive home a fundamental case: that Obama as president is going to lead to bad things in many areas, but won't be the end of the world. We had Reagan/Bush for 12 years then Clinton for 8, with 6 of those having the Republicans control the house and the senate, and then 8 years of Bush.
Nevertheless, we weren't able to prevent this particular financial catastrophe. Conservatives might have all the right ideas, just as liberals have all the wrong ones, but the executors of the ideology--the politicians in Washington--tend to be corrpt and inept. I think we got as much good done under Clinton with a Republican congress as we've gotten in 8 years of Bush.
In any case, I want McCain to win--more for elevating Palin to the VP than for McCain to be Nixon II, the bi-partisan, big-government, bend-over-and-grab-the-ankles-for-democrats sequel . . . but if it's Obama, the world will not end. The best thing Obama could do--ala Clinton--is reveal a sudden far-leftism than scares even some of his own voters, and ends up giving the Republicans a real opportunity to nationalize the 2010 senate and house races.
Stuff like censorship over the Internet and the Fairness Doctrine would actually be very good things for conservatives. It would wake a lot of people up, and it is impossible--I guarantee you--for the Democrats to put the New Media genie back in the bottle, no matter how much they want to. Conservative groups would file lawsuits based on the Fairness Doctrine to attack liberal media bulwarks, conservative Icons would sell tens-of-millions of new satellite radio systems, we'd all still get Rush and Hannity and Beck via the Internet. Attempts to regulate bloggers as journalists would end up with lawsuits being filed against the NYT and the LA Times using things that were supposed to only get used against bloggers, and so on. If any draconian measures to stifle conservative were tried at this late date, it would backfire. They'd lose ground in the mindshare war, and they'd lose elections.
Unlike the Alec Baldwins of the world, if Obama wins, I'm staying right here. I love this country. We will occasionally have a bad president. Bush hasn't been all the great. Obama might, when it comes down to it, be terrible, or just a lame duck. Or a foil for a vasty majority of Republicans in the house and senate, post 2010.
We survived the Great Depression, WWI and WWII, the Civil War, the Vietnam War, Dan Rather, Air America and Reality Television and we will survive this. And maybe, in the end, come out on top.
Frankly, if McCain wins, I'm afraid I'm going to be saying the same thing. "We will surive this." Al Gore was the Global Warming Czar in a McCain cabinet? Oh, good lord.
Posted by: Exit Strategy at October 6, 2008 8:20 AM
Exit Strategy;
You give me hope.
Posted by: KHarn at October 6, 2008 3:49 PM
