Yet another reason to dislike McCain.
Michelle Malkin » Hey, John McCain: Have you bothered watching the ad you condemned yet?
“I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.”
He didn’t bother to watch the 41-second video before his campaign leaned on the NC GOP to withdraw it. … Yes, without having seen the ad or talked directly to the NC GOP officials, he’s absolutely convinced that he’s right about his knee-jerk assessment of their supposedly bigoted motives.
Regarding McCain as President: I can’t see it, and I hope that I never see it.
There are two ways to view this:
- What kind of man is so precious and delicate that he can’t stand to watch a potentially offensive political ad? A man who is too weak to lead the free world.
- What kind of man throws his own people under the bus without even bothering to perform due diligence? A man who is disloyal to the people he expects to work for him and give him what he wants more than anything – the White House.
Every time I want to work myself up to vote for this man, he gives me another reason not to do so.
I don’t know who McCain thinks is going to do the work to get him into the White House. He may get some Democrats to pull the lever for him in the voting booth, but they’re not going to donate, make the phone calls, stuff the envelopes, and get out the vote for him. I’m reminded of the scene in Stripes:
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis. We’re all in this together. One of these men may save your life one of these days, you understand that?
Winger: Then again maybe one of us won’t.
Staying home on election day is starting to look like a pretty good option.
UPDATE: From a Limbaugh rant, notice how he’s careful to phrase his condemnation when Shep Smith asks him what was offensive about the ad to McCain:
Shepard Smith, yesterday, Fox News Channel, asked, “What about that North Carolina ad was offensive to you, Senator.”
MCCAIN: I think it’s — Anyone who watched it was offensive in that it, uh, brought, ehh, elements into this race which are –
SMITH: Race?
MCCAIN: — excuse me. Into this contest, of race, that are totally unacceptable. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln and the party of — of Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. That’s just not the kind of advertising we want to do. We want this race decided on the issues.
And, what, we can’t call it a Presidential “race” anymore – we have to say “contest?” The only way this can get any more ridiculous is if we invite a Canadian Human Rights Commission in to monitor the race until election day.
With McCain, conservatives will have a two-front war. The old front against the liberal Dems and a dangerous front in our rear and flanks with liberal McCain and his RINOs on the attack.
With McCain, America and the “loyal” Republicans will be more willing to socialize large sectors of the economy because of blind trust. Hillary would have a much harder time bringing us socialized medicine than McCain and those forced to go along with him under party loyalty.
Bush brought us a prescription drug entitlement in perpetuity. What will McCain do?
I agree… the GOP will dig in and fight a Dem President, but too many of them will put party loyalty over the good of the country if McCain wins it. The only thing that’s keeping me even considering voting for McCain is that we can’t afford to surrender the war. But they’ve made so much progress politically recently, that concern may be a moot point in another 6 months.
If he’d do the smart thing and pick a running mate like Fred Thompson, I’d be a lot more likely to vote for him. In that scenario, we might even get lucky and have him die in office of a heart attack or something. Then we’d have a real president. But I don’t know if McCain is smart enough even to pick a conservative running mate. He just continues to disappoint me constantly.