Is McCain a liability for conservatives?
Is McCain a liability for conservatives?
During this election season, the highly unpopular President Bush has been largely seen as toxic to Republican candidates, who have tried to avoid mentioning and being seen with him. Today the Washington Post reports that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who embraces many of Bush’s policies, is also becoming a liability for some candidates, including Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN):
At several stops Monday, Coleman did not mention his party’s presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain. A poll this week showed McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by almost 20 points in Minnesota. And the only sign of President Bush was a Franken staffer wearing a Bush mask outside a Coleman event in Redwood Falls in southwestern Minnesota, an ever-present attempt by the Democrat’s campaign to remind voters of Coleman’s once-close ties to the White House.
Coleman has further tried to distance himself from McCain by denouncing the campaign’s use of misleading robocalls, although he later said that such calls with the voice of Rudy Giuliani were “fair game.”
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The larger and more important question is;
Are Conservatives a Liability For the Country?
As McCain is the de facto Conservative candidate, as he is losing magnificently in the polls thanks to him running on the traditional conservative platform that has informed the disastrous policies of the past 8 years ( and which were given their head in the 12 years of Reagan and Bush41) and his avowed intention to continue those failed policies Mc Cain isn’t just a liability to social and political conservatives, but to the entire nation and its future.
Furthermore, having accepted McCain as their primary political leader and having promoted Palin as their social-issues leader, Conservatives are in fact their own greatest liability.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:14 pmIs McCain a liability for conservatives?»
– - Well, if you have to ask….
October 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pmDoh! I forgot to add:
The very essence of conservatism as an ideology is resistance to change.This resistant ethos is utterly incompatible with reality, not just present reality but historical reality.
Conservatism simply picks a convenient state of being, arbitrarily declares that chosen state perfect and then strives to maintain it regardless.
If conservatives had been able to impose their ideology on the New World of the 1600’s America would either have stayed a colony of Great Britain or would have become a Puritan theocracy which in glorious isolation would be in the present day much like a Christian, western, Saudi Arabia.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:31 pmConservative policies are a liability for conservatives.
Now that the full effect of their policies is being felt, the public is balking, and conservatives are looking for a scapegoat to blame; whether ACORN, Obama, Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae, or Democrats in general.
But one thing is sure: They will never accept responsibility for their own failures. And their loyal followers (basically the right-wing bigots at the McCain rallies) will never believe it was the “small government” Republicans who got us all into this mess to begin with.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pmBarbara West interviews Joe Biden. Yeesh, thank goodness I’m not subjected to this “reporter” on my tubes here in Sarasota County.
(yeah, I know, it’s OT but, come on, it’s Saturday – no Think Fast thread.)
October 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pmQuick, everyone look elsewhere to find someone to blame. Because there is no way you could be the problem.
A hint: It is Palin, it is Bush, it is McCain (Black, Schmidt and Davis et. al.), it is the foreclosure crisis, it is the credit markets and the stock markets plummeting, it is McConnell, it is Coleman, it is Bachmann and King, it is a tax code full of corporate loopholes, it is ginormous tax breaks for the wealthy, it is the continuation of a war of choice, it is the reputation you’ve all brought us.
I don’t want you to acknowledge these problems, even though that would be just the First step to recovery.
October 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pmIs McCain a liability for conservatives?
I think it’s the other way around: The Maverick couldn’t appeal to independents, because he had to remain in lockstep with the ideology, to secure the base. If the base had been less committed to conservative ideological purity, he might have had a chance with independents. A lot of republican candidates now see McCain as a likely scapegoat, who they can use to explain away the fact that voters would have thrown them out of office, regardless, because the republican brand has cratered after eight years of Bush.
October 25th, 2008 at 5:21 pmMcCain has endangered the entire world with his pick of “End Times” BarleyCoulda…..this man would sacrifice the entire world simply be able to show daddy he can outrank him… I’m hoping the cancer makes the remainder of his pitiful and hollow life as painful as possible. Words cannot describe how inconceivably dangerous a palin presidency would be to this world…
October 25th, 2008 at 5:26 pmAnd an interesting definition of “Right-Wink Authoritarianism):
The “right wing” in right-wing authoritarianism does not necessarily refer to someone’s politics, but to psychological preferences and personality. It means that the person tends to follow the established conventions and authorities in society. In theory, the authorities could have either right-wing or left-wing political views.
Milton Rokeach’s dogmatism scale was an early attempt to measure pure authoritarianism, whether left or right. The scale was carefully designed to measure “closed mindedness” without regard to ideology. Nevertheless, researchers found that it correlated with political conservatism.[6] In a similar line of research, Philip Tetlock found that right wing beliefs are associated with less integrative complexity than left wing beliefs. People with moderate liberal attitudes had the highest integrative complexity in their cognitions.[7]
There have been a number of other attempts to identify “left-wing authoritarians” in the United States and Canada. These would be people who submit to leftist authorities, are highly conventional to liberal viewpoints, and are aggressive to people who oppose left-wing ideology. These attempts have failed because measures of authoritarianism always correlate at least slightly with the right. There are certainly extremists across the political spectrum, but most psychologists now believe that authoritarianism is a predominantly right-wing phenomenon.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_Authoritarianism#Right_and_left
Although authoritarians in North America generally support conservative political parties, this finding must be considered in a historical and cultural context. For example, during the Cold War, authoritarians in the United States were usually anti-communist, whereas in the Soviet Union, authoritarians generally supported the Communist Party and were opposed to capitalism.[9] Thus, authoritarians generally favor the established ways and oppose social and political change.
October 25th, 2008 at 5:50 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Heh. It tells me that the video stream is no longer available.
October 25th, 2008 at 5:58 pmOuch. I can understand distancing yourself from Bush, but it’s a bit hard to distance yourself from the guy whose name is going to be at the top of your ballot come election day. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
October 25th, 2008 at 6:06 pmYes, because he’s a neocon turd, not a small government, civil libertarian conservative.
October 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pmConservatives are a liability for the planet, and every life form on it.
October 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pmHere in Oregon, we’ve got another “please don’t notice I’m a Republican” candidate running for re-election – Gordon Smith. His ads tout how well he works with the popular Dem Senator Ron Wyden, as well as how well he works with Barack Obama. Both Wyden and Obama have now done ads endorsing his opponent, Jeff Merkley.
These people really need to start thinking about how their strategies can backfire before they jump in with both feet.
October 25th, 2008 at 7:30 pmSounds like Norm Coleman is feeling a little heat from Al Frankin.
October 25th, 2008 at 7:37 pmHere in Washington State several candidates including Dino Rossi find their party affiliation to be damaging to their chances. They elected to be identified as “GOP” candidates on the ballot rather than “Republican”. Apparently, GOP polled better.
October 25th, 2008 at 7:45 pmHere is an example of conservativism .
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/21/2169
Any more conservativism and we’ll all be Dead .
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