Feb 01 2008
Democrats Help Hyper-Right Attack McCain: Claim He Is A Closet Democrat
Bumped To The Top: The Hyper-Right is Imploding Updates Below – end update
Hyper-left democrats (a.k.a. liberals) are starting to get worried about the McCain phenomena. The know McCain can take Hillary and are also realizing Obama has had to tack way too far left for the primaries that attempts to tack right for the general to take on McCain will be implausible at best. Then there is the stature problem. McCain is a war hero who will finish off al-Qaeda and protect America. He is also moderate enough to take votes left of center to conservative. McCain is too moderate for me, but I am not like Mark Levin who scream in hysterics when he does not get his way (being the “great American” he is and I am clearly not).
Obama is still a junior, first term senator who has promised to surrender Iraq to a beaten down (but not defeated) Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. So he has problems as well when facing McCain this November.
Realizing that McCain McMentum is building up fast and their candidates are still attacking and injuring each other, the liberal media has come out and manufactured the worst smear they could think of – they have echoed the cries of the hyper-partisan right and AM talk radio hosts who continue to try and derail McCain. They have claimed McCain is Democrat in disguise, a RINO, a traitor to his party:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.
In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.
Democrats had contacted Jeffords and then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) in the early months of 2001 about switching parties, but in McCain’s case, they said, it was McCain’s top strategist who came to them.
At the end of their March 31, 2001 lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Bethesda, Md., Downey said Weaver asked why Democrats hadn’t asked McCain to switch parties.
Downey, a well-connected lobbyist, said he was stunned.
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He claims, however, that Downey is grossly mischaracterizing their exchange: “We certainly didn’t discuss in any detail about the senator’s political plans and any discussion about party-switchers, generically, would have been limited to the idle gossip which was all around the city about the [Democrats’] aggressive approach about getting any GOP senator to switch in order to gain the majority. Nothing more or less than that.â€
Wow, who would have thought of this! Sean Hannity working with Tom Daschle to try and make McCain out to be a RINO – or worse, a traitorous RINO. Rush Limbaugh and Senate Majority Leader “Dingy Harry” Reid are now allies in the effort to attack a ‘man of the middle ground’. Mark Levin is screaming the same thing Democrats operatives are whispering to their media puppets. You don’t think there is a hyper-partisan war against the moderate middle?
The fact that these forces are all working in the same way to destroy McCain simply means they have allied in the same way when they tried to destroy Bush. Who hates El Presidente Jorge Bush and the possibility of El Presidente Juan McLame? Bush has a near 40% approval rating and it ain’t coming from the hyper-partisans left or right. That support is coming from the center, who decide elections. This truly is a very bizarre and upside down election year!
Update: Will the hyper-right be Reaganesque or Clintonian? According to what Captain Ed Morrissey is seeing it would seem the trend is towards Clintonian. This is one easy way to make me a McCain supporter.
Sad Update: Reader Terrye claimed no conservative would buy into the Daschle claims. Sadly she was wrong. In a classic example of how not to court the moderates someone over at Stop The ACLU has begun the purity wars again by falling for this propaganda – along with the lame name calling I said we be the end of the conservative coalition:
In a not so surprising revelation in The Hill, it is being exposed by Democrats that Juan MexiCain, the man who “main stream” Republicans wish Conservatives to abandon principles to coalesce around, nearly abandoned them 7 years ago. I say not so surprising because the writing has been on the wall for nearly a decade.
The hyper-right has simply lost it. They will not tolerate any dissension or traitors. How insane are they? Anne Coulter will support Hillary over McCain – and few will call her a traitor or RINO! More here on RINO Coulter.
OK, so we go into the Free Republic to see how gullible people are and we find this and this. I let folks decide how gullible some on the right can be to propaganda meant to get Dems elected by dividing the GOP.
Ugly Update: I hate to be right on this, but I did predict some fools would use the “Juan McCain” BS to illustrate how juvenile they are.
Since when would any self respecting Republican take Daschle’s word for something like this?
Democrats have been playing this game for years. Kerry did it, Bill Clinton is telling people that McCain is a buddy and all that. If any of these Democrats were talking about anything else, the instinctive reaction would be skepticism at best.
I don’t know that the far right destroyed anything or brought us McCain. I’m thinking that the candidates representing Republican thinking were not and are not that great, miscalculated, lacked drive to compete and had and have various other problems that are hard to swallow. While all are fine and even heroic people, the field has major flaws not little ones. The Dems are really hard to swallow if it is the country and it’s prosperity that you are interested in.
Terrye,
Watch how many on the right buy into it.
I am definitely voting for McCain after what I have seen/read from those who want to control the republican party…and knight their candidate who will be beholden to them. I am outraged. And sick of them.
The Democrats know that McCain can beat them. And so they are hoping that they can get the right to join forces with them and destroy any moderate GOP candidate.
Over at Real Clear Politics I looked a couple of polls. I know it is early and anything can happen, but this is what the Democrats see:
McCain beating Obama
Obama beating Romney.
And the same goes for Clinton vs. McCain. The right ofcourse will respnd by ranting about how illegal is illegal is illegal or something.
Obama wants to give drivers licenses to illegals. Look at these polls and think about that before you call McCain a closet Democrat.
ivehadit:
I feel the same way. Initially I did not support McCain, but many of these same pundits have made Bush’s life a living for hell for years and now I am supposed to think they are the heart and soul of the GOP? In their dreams.
I like this piece from John at “Townhall.com” read the whole piece.
Why You’re Going To Vote For John McCain In November And Like It!
Posted by Kaslin
On News/Activism 02/01/2008 4:51:05 AM PST · 138 replies
Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2008 | John Hawkins
Admittedly the title is a wee bit of an exaggeration. Did I say “wee bit?” I really meant a huge exaggeration. Okay, okay, the title is so over-the-top that I would only write it in a column, not say it in front of an audience of conservatives because people might start throwing garbage. And let me tell you, I understand where people are coming from with McCain; I really do. That’s why I created such seminal works of art as The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008, A Conservative Nightmare: Republican Nominee, John McCain, and John McCain:
The worst part of this story is that there’s absolutely nothing new – I heard every one of these claims (and the New York Times did it’s best to promote them) years ago. They fell apart then, they fall apart now. All this “woulda, coulda, shoulda” talk from Daschle is nonsense. Just like Kerry being surprised that McCain turned down his offer to be his running mate.
In other news, I’m sadly reminded that it’s 5 years since Challenger blew up pretty much over my house at the time. I remember a long, deep, rolling series of booms at 8 am sharp (my time) that rattled all of the windows in my house and shook me out of bed. I immediately went to the news because I thought that some nearby business or refinery had blown up. All I found was puzzled reporters trying to figure out why all contact had been lost with Challenger – and at that moment I got that sick feeling in my gut, that feeling where you know what’s wrong but can’t yet admit it.
Pieces of debris rained down for nearly half the day afterwards.
WWS:
Wasn’t that awful? Heartbreaking in fact.
AJ:
I just wanted to be wrong. Anyone who would fall for a story from the likes of Daschle, wants to be beat. He does, he wants to lose. He must.
Terrye,
We even then, I wanted you to be right.
The fact is, there are no good choices for the right this November.
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I am so disgusted by conservative talk radio. I will never go back to listening to them. They are just as mean spirited as the liberals that I have disliked for the same reason. Thank God there are a couple of decent talkers left like Praeger and Medved. They are the only two that I’ve found to be fair, intellectually honest, and civil. I don’t agree with either of them all of the time but appreciate their respect for those who do disagree with them.
Kitty:
And they have no one but themselves to blame for that. If Ronald Reagan were here today, they would point out that he used to be a Demcrat, supported amnesty, call him Ronaldo and pitch a fit. Same old same old.
It might just be that the problem is not with the candidates, it is with them.
Terrye,
I remember some insanely far right types (e.g. Anthony J. Hilder) who referred to Reagan as “Red Ronnie” because he had been a Roosevelt Democrat and president of SAG. I thought it was humorous then because no one took Hilder seriously (except for some turns of phrase — “Liberalism is more than just a mental disease, it is a sickness of the sould” and the quality of his alliteration – “Pusillanimous Pinks, Punks, Perverts and Purveyors of Filth have paraded neath the UN-American flag of the National Liberal Front “so-Viet Cong” in acts Tantamount to Treason…Hippies, Hookers, Hypes and Heathens Hostile and Heretic out-Herod Herod.” is a classic of the genre)
That said, I do find the fact he has Juan Hernandez as an advisor — a dual citizen former Mexican cabinet official who has openly said he wants Mexicans in the US to remain focused on Mexico — to be deeply troubling. Even if you favor a path to citizenship, it should be a path to becoming an American, not a path to the goals of the Mexican irredentists, who are very real.
Great posts, Terrye. Conservatives that are rallying to vote for Hillary or not vote have jumped the shark. THEY have damaged THEMSELVES. They have no one to blame but themselves. They are now having a hissy fit because their fellow citizens are not backing them 100%. Wonder why? Sarcasm off.
They are a mess and as I have said for a few years now, they are the same coin as the liberals just the opposite side. They need to look in the mirror long and hard and see what they see. Their own pathology. It won’t be pretty.
And btw, congress makes the laws, not the president. Congress has been getting a pass for so long..its good to see their approval ratings so low now. If they were a corporation, they would have been shut down a long time ago…fraud and malfeasance, donncha know. Lol!
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I’m not to blame for the poor choices we’re left with. I haven’t even voted in the primary yet; it’s next Tuesday.
Worse than being a spent political force, conservatism is a spent intellectual force. It is nothing more than a hate movement at this point. At least we know for sure, now.
AJ,
The Democrats aren’t helping the Hyper-right attack McCain…THEY are attacking McCain because they know it will hurt the Republican chances in November. Old news, lies, smears…that’s the Dems way. I’m just surprised that they started so soon…I think they might be a little bit early here… They usually wait until closer to the election to drop these tricks …when there’s no time to verify…
McNutt is a bonafide, genuine LiBrul LIAR, and anyone who believes different, is smokin sumthin!
I am a Staunch conservative and am tired of voting for the “Lesser of Two Evils,” I will write in Fred on election day!