Posted by
BrianR on Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:34:34 PM
In spite of my earlier decision to stop writing political commentary here, this has come to my attention, and I must comment on it.
Today the RNC began running a 10-day, $3 million ad campaign for McCain. Here's the link:
AP story
Here's the text of part of the ad: “Record gas prices, a climate in crisis. John McCain says solve it now. With a balanced plan — alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax AND more production here at home. He’s pushing his own party to face climate change."
The key phrase: "He’s pushing his own party to face climate change."
This clearly illustrates why McCain must not be elected President. He stands for a complete redefinition of the GOP to a party that by clear inference buys into Al Gore's hogwash about Globull Warming, among other liberal dogma, most notably amnesty. It was bad enough watching Newt Gingrich cave to political correctness while sitting next to Pelosi on that couch and preaching the mantra of Goreism.
But now we have the GOP itself bragging about this. After all, who paid for this ad? The Republican National Committee, not McCain.
Are you wondering how the GOP and RNC are spending any contributions you've sent or will send to them? Well, wonder no more.
The GOP is a party that has clearly lost its way. It no longer stands for anything other than putting any candidate in any office using any means, regardless of any actual principle or ideology that may be involved. This has become nothing more than a game of power-mongering based solely on cynical pandering and hysterical hyperbole. The worst sort of populism.
I'm fortunate in that my own Congressman, Buck McKeon, is a solid conservative. Therefore, I'll continue to support him -- as an individual candidate -- in every way I can.
But the GOP brand is "in the trash can", as Rep. Tom Davis noted (
Here ). "McCain has his own branding and it is not consistent with congressional Republican branding." Too bad his own party hasn't paid Davis any attention.
As this campaign season proceeds it becomes ever more clear to me that it's really essential for the future of this country and traditional conservatism that McCain MUST lose. The GOP didn't learn Thing One from the drubbing they took in 2006; in fact, they've pandered even further Left than before. They didn't learn anything from their two attempts to force amnesty down our throats; now they're backing Mr. Amnesty himself. They haven't learned anything from their crashing membership rolls, nor sub-par contributions.
The only hope I can see for the GOP is that a resounding defeat of McCain and his policies will awaken them to some hard realities: a party that stands for nothing can expect no support. If people want to vote for Democrat policies, they can vote for The Real Thing. Why should they support a pale imitation?
If the GOP doesn't get it after that, then they deserve to go the way of the WHIG Party.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled puff pieces.