When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left, jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon. And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the McCain bandwagon. Then we go to Wyoming, and Romney won all the delegates there, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the McCain bandwagon and hoped for Huckabee. And then we get to South Carolina and Nevada. In Nevada, Romney cleans up, and nobody talks about it. “Romney is nowhere. He’s off the charts. He should quit. Thompson should quit. He should get out of the race!” They remain on the McCain bandwagon. Now the people on the McCain bandwagon are telling those of us who aren’t on the McCain bandwagon, to shut up. Just be quiet…
We are supposedly damaging the Republican Party.
We are supposedly damaging the conservative movement. We should just shut up. Just sit by and watch all this stuff and let it happen and just be quiet. What is the point?
McCain, frankly, has shown conservatives little but contempt over many years.
The point is, McCain got fewer votes — 42% in 2000; 33% of the vote Saturday night, 2008 — and he wasn’t running against his two top challengers, once you get out of these states where independents can go in and vote in the Republican primary.
He should have cleaned up. McCain should have gotten over 50% of the vote if this McCain movement is for real, but he got fewer votes and a much smaller percentage in 2008 than he did in 2000.
It’s humorous, interesting, and a little funny.
I’ve made no secret of my concern about this field of candidates from the get-go, and I have made no secret, here, of my intention to post about their records. If a candidate is concealing their record, I don’t have to go along with that. If a candidate has something to say that I think is great, I will mention it if I choose to. To state the purpose again here within the context of this particular campaign, my purpose is to see conservatism triumph, both in the primary and in the general election.
Senator McCain’s domestic record is not conservative, and we’re being lectured by the media — some who are hostile to conservatism, some who wear the conservative label — to be quiet, to not be too hard on him, or whatever.
We deal in ideas. Why should I be quiet about my ideas? Why should I be quiet, or anybody else who happens to espouse what I believe? Why should we be quiet? The primary is precisely the time to speak! That’s when this stuff gets aired and sorted out.
Governor Huckabee has reversed course on taxes, on illegal immigration. He has reversed course on law and order. Why shouldn’t we discuss this? I mean, he made a major, major flip-flop on immigration. It didn’t help him in South Carolina, and look what happened when he did that. Many of you think Governor Huckabee is very conservative. Put when he did this flip-flop on immigration, what direction did he move? He moved right. His previous position was: tuition, illegals, kids stay, blah, blah, blah. He vowed to send ’em all home, right before the South Carolina primary. Huge, huge flip-flop. Why should we be quiet about that?
Because the media likes the guy and is pulling for him? Is that a reason to be quiet about it? If I think any one or few of these guys might ultimately damage the Republican Party or the conservative movement, should we not talk about that, either?
McCain wants people to shut up. That’s called McCain-Feingold. McCain passed the first successful, major shut-up bill in the history of the country. McCain-Feingold was an abridgement of free speech. McCain wants people to shut up. Why should we shut up? Why don’t they shut up? It would never occur to me to say to Senator McCain, “Shut up about what you’re saying on the campaign trail. It’s not accurate. You’re not being truthful about your past positions on issues.” It would never occur to me tell them to shut up.
It occurs to liberals to tell people that they disagree with to shut up, but it doesn’t occur to me. I’m not afraid. This notion that we should shut up is insulting and offensive.
They all like McCain and Huckabee, so they just want these guys to sail through here without any opposition.
Let me give you a quote, from the great Ronald Reagan, especially since the Media and even some pundits on our side continue to hate hearing references to Reagan. “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
Let me translate. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply doing anything to win. And that, I fear, is what’s happening to the Republican Party. Bring in anybody you think can beat Hillary. That’s really what this boils down to.
Conservatives are thinkers, and they’re not fooled. Conservatives don’t buy into liberalism on the touchy-feely emotional side, but if there’s nobody for conservatives to vote for, then that’s fine. So take out Thompson. Take out Rudy. Leave us with McCain and Huckabee, and they think conservatives will stay home — and then the Republican Party will face a realignment.
What the Media and the Democrats desperately want is for there to be no conservative influence in the Republican Party at all, because they know that if that happens, the Republican Party will never beat them.
Without conservatism in the Republican Party, the Republican Party is finished in terms of having chances, viable chances to win elections — if the conservative base is driven out of it. You can drive the conservative base out of the Republican Party by making sure that none of its candidates get nominated, that none of its candidates win primaries, or if they do win primaries, that big pieces designed to destroy them show up in the Media.
Debate us? That’s beneath them! We’re like Chihuahuas, except the Chihuahuas that were yapping at their heels are up to their throats now, and they want us finished. So when they start touting all these candidates that are not us, and that’s why we get concerned here, and that’s why we’re not going to shut up.
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