Understanding how conservatives are very alienated by McCain

[zulchzulu]

Focusing on the reality that it's going to be Obama as our Democratic nominee, it's time to look at just how little the Republican base trusts McCain. Before going into that dark world, here are my assumptions on how Obama will win handily over McCain due to these issues:

• The economy is going to be in a tailspin with high fuel costs, housing failures, banking failures, stagflation, devaluation of the dollar and the perception will be that change is needed.
  
  
• The continuing disaster of the Iraq War and branding the 100-year war comment on McCain's head.
  
  
• Linking McCain to Hagee, Parsley and Robertson as people who declare the Catholic faith "a whore", want war for "the End Times" and believe that the United States should be a theocracy. Additionally, so-called "pro-life" links should be enough to scare independents and women.
  
  
• Bringing up McCain's history as being an integral part of the Keating Five, which cost taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars, and nailing him to the wall with other scandals that show he is not the "maverick" he tries to make himself out to be will add to the draining of his campaign.

There is actually a whole other layer to go after McCain: from the mistrust that conservatives have of his candidacy is a gold mine to get the Republican base to just want to sit it out in 2008. That helps get a blue 111th Congress to quickly pass legislation to undo the many Bush policies that need to be purged.

Asked if McCain could be trusted as a conservative, for instance, Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, smiled and said, "I'm going to dodge that question."

Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, praised most of McCain's votes on guns, but quickly added, "We've had some high-profile disagreements."

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What piques conservatives most, however, is a law that many consider to be McCain at his maverick best — or worst, depending on one's point of view: His relentless championing of the ban on soft money, which he pushed to enactment in 2002.

"In the eyes of conservatives, it's the worst thing he ever did," said Alfred Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator, a conservative magazine.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/31673.html

What's funny is reading the responses from those that can't stand McCain from a conservative bent. Here are some samples:

"You have mentioned many of the REASONS I WON'T Vote for McCain..
He will ..NOT.. do anything about our Southern Border... IT will NOT be a top priorty with him..
I DON'T have a DOG in this Race !!!"

"I've never voted Democrat but I will be just to punish the GOP if they put this dolt in as the nominee."

"McCain is no moderate he is a combination of Herbert Hoover,George W. Bush, and Warren G. Harding a vote for this dinosaur is a vote for four more years of Republican incompetence."

"Mccain has the potential of becoming a nightmare for the conservative base. I don't know if I can hold my nose and vote for him?"

"McCain will probably decide that fairness includes putting liberals on the
Court. He may have his heart in the right place, but his head is often in his rear end. Global warming? For God's sake, John, read a book."

More venom from conservative blogs can be summed up with screeds like this:

Because his politics is based on collaboration with liberals McCain is a divider of Republicans, not a unifier. This is the gentleman who on February 20, 2005 told Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” that, “I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good president.” He is the same gentleman who -- defending his McCain-Kennedy-Bush “comprehensive immigration reform” -- screamed “f*#@% you” at Texas Republican John Cornyn, one of the bill’s leading opponents. He’s also told Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter that he was a colorful anatomical term and referred to Sen. Charles Grassley a “#$%^#*^ jerk.” It is difficult to even deal with people you abuse. Unifying them is impossible.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24771

Once we put an end to the Clintons endorsing the opposition, namely John McCain, we can come at McCain from all sides and surround him so he has a very memorable hot-headed eruption and babbles senile pig latin for the YouTube World to replay again and again.

[azmouse]

1. This is good info.

We need more of these types of posts. McSame is the real enemy.

[zulchzulu]

2. Yep. Let's start turning our cannons at the SS McVain n/t