Say Anything Blog

Now that Rudi, Fred and Mitt have struck their tents and headed home, the field is left to RINO Huck and RINO McCain.  A sputtering Ron Pauls’ campaign trails far behind on one engine.  The opposition, if it can be called that, is just more of the same on roids—HillaBama. 

This is the classic case of Heads I Win—Tails You Lose stacked against those who care for Conservative public policy, an Originalist Supreme Court and particularly for a secured frontier with Mexico and no Amnesty for Illegal Aliens.

McCain, for his part, is playing the softshoe on matters of immigration since he needs to woo an incensed and alienated Republican core constituency.

Hint: don’t expect too much wooing.

As I watched McCain and Gov. 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.

One of the parties most jubilant over this recent turn of events is Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

“Eying the results so far in the U.S. presidential primary race, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said he is hopeful that the next administration in Washington will usher in reforms that would legalize the status of Mexican immigrants.

“It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate,” Calderon told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, the day after the Super Tuesday primaries.

“My hope is that whoever the next president is, and whoever is in the new Congress, will have a broader and more comprehensive view” of the immigration problem.

Calderon said he took heart from the Super Tuesday results, but did not mention specific candidates, the Times reported.

Calderon is about to embark on a 5-day U.S. trip that will end in California, where he is scheduled to meet with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and migrant groups.

Calderon said one goal of his U.S. trip would be to generate support for immigration reform that would permit millions of Mexican to work in the U.S.

He also told the Times that Americans would “sooner or later” come to understand that the health of the American economy is linked to integration with Mexico and “greater freedom in labor markets.” “

There are those who are hopeful, for some inexplicable reason that the septagenerian will suddenly toe the Conservative line and stay that course during any administration he is elected to.

They remain willingly and blissfully ignorant of that fact that, if elected, there will be no leverage on McCain to moderate his style of sticking it to the Right, since his nomination and ensuing election will have been propelled in large part by crossover Democrats, Independents and other Liberals, most of whom applaud or do not care overmuch that a McCain administration will usher in Amnesty for Illegals, Gun Control, Global Warming regulations and surcharges and a raft of other Leftist-inspired Diktats.

Liberals of all flavors cheer McCain on, as they see him as a Republican they can get behind (e.g. a Liberal himself ) .

But McCain has already signaled what he is going to do with Amnesty for Illegal Aliens by taking on the rabidly pro-Mexican Juan Hernandez as Hispanic outreach advisor.

McCain will offer, at best, lip service to Americans in general and Conservative Americans in particular not to fall back into his old ways.  Indeed, he has just offered up a contemptuous ‘calm down’ to the speakers of Talk Radio.

What sort of incentives are there for Conservatives to rally behind McCain?  The most oft-cited reason is that he will be less bad than either Clinton or Obama.

A weak argument at best, considering the following:

Anger now has now become a familiar conservative motif, as well. McCain has provoked a profound animus from conservatives ranging from Rush Limbaugh and Thomas Sowell on down to the posters at numerous conservative blogs, emailers to this site, and callers to talk radio. McCain’s Legislative sins prominently include McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, and McCain-Kennedy. All three feel to principled conservatives like monstrous betrayals—liberalism that can only make things worse.

Then there is the obvious relish with which McCain sometimes sticks it to the disaffected voters to his right, as with his comment on a conference call to bloggers likening ANWR and the Grand Canyon as places we shouldn’t drill for oil. The conservative base of the GOP has been dissed by the Senator on multiple occasions like this, in ways big and small.

One thing is certain, McCain is a Liberal, in the current understanding of the word.  To vote for home is to guarantee a wide-open southern border, amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, gun control, zero tax reform, greater intrusion on civil liberties and Souter-like Supreme Court judges. 

It’s one thing for the Democrats to fight for these things.  That is, after all, what Democrats to.

It’s another thing to do it to ourselves.