Is there a danger in Mccain?
Maybe, according to Mark Steyn:
"Why Republicans Lose" [Mark Steyn]
Rush was not happy yesterday about Senator McCain's "envirowacko agenda":
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Radical environmentalism, global warming — call it whatever you want — is an agenda born of the 1960s socialism that spread from Europe to the US. It rejects completely the notion of limited constitutional government. The plan advocated by Obama, the plan advocated by Mrs. Clinton, the plan advocated by Algore, the plan sadly advocated by our nominee, tramples on individual rights, tramples on capitalism, tramples on states' rights, and it promotes the notion that government is the solution and the only solution to everything, and it promotes the idea that we are guilty, that we are guilty precisely because of our prosperity... And now, doesn't matter who we vote for, for president. Whoever the next president is, is gonna agree with that premise.
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John McCain has decided in effect to run for president as an Independent. And, given the assumptions about the diminished appeal of the Republican brand, that might not be a bad idea - at least in terms of his own personal ambition. Maybe I don't get out and about enough but I meet only three kinds of Republicans:
1) A small number who are disgusted with the GOP and say this Bob Barr/Ron Paul/Whoever chap is going to get their vote.
2) A small number who are disgusted with the GOP and plan on sitting on their hands this November.
3) A much bigger number who are disgusted with the GOP but say it's a waste of time flirting with Barr or flouncing off in a huff because it's going to be Obama or McCain in the Oval Office so we have to vote for McCain faute de mieux.*
So I meet Republicans for Barr, Republicans for Staying Home, and Republicans for Voting McCain With An Industrial-Strength Clothespin. But I can't remember the last time I had a conversation with anyone who likes the Republican Party. And one can't but feel this bodes ill for November. A McCain victory with Democrat gains in Congress would be an invitation to a one-term "maverick" president to go on an almighty bipartisan binge.
(*They don't actually say "faute de mieux". That's just an effete foreigner putting alien tongues in their mouths.**)
(**I don't actually put my alien tongue in their mouths. That's just an effete foreigner's effete figure of speech.***)
(***I don't actually have an effete figure. That's just...)
05/15 01:08 PM
Seeing than name continually reminds of folks who wear garlic around their necks
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