So John McCain got 33% of the vote in SC, which proves to the MSM that Conservatism is over apparently.
Baloney…..
As Mike wrote about here, so too does Michael Graham at NRO who writes a far more calm and reasoned view of McCain’s win in SC then our MSM pundits are giving:
In 2000, running against George W. Bush and the entire Carroll Campbell machine in South Carolina, John McCain got 42% of the vote, and 240,000 votes out of 573,000 or so cast.
Tonight, he got 33% of the vote in a field where his top challengers—Romney and Giuliani—aren’t even running, and 135,000 actual votes. If just the same people who voted for McCain in 2000 had voted for him today, he would have won 50+% of the South Carolina vote. That would have been truly impressive.
Instead, John McCain LOST the support of 100,000 people—and he’s the winner?
But listen to the MSM on the air and on paper its a sign that conservatism is dead. Now Republicans apparently support illegal immigrants and McCain-Feingold. We support McCain’s attacks against tax cuts and his class warfare crap.
Here he is in April of 2006:
[audio:https://floppingaces.net/Audio/mccainillegals.mp3]Some conservative.
Listen to Mark Levin today explain why this is ludicrous:
[audio:https://floppingaces.net/Audio/levinmccain.mp3]The money quote at the end:
The reason why there aren’t enough votes coalescing around Fred Thompson is because McCain and Huckabee have been extremely successful in dividing the conservative movement which makes it difficult for a thoughtful conservative to get his message out through all the clutter. Of course they want the Reagan era to be dead because Reagan campaigned and governed like Thompson, not like Huckabee, not like McCain.
Rush today said he may not even vote for a Republican: (h/t Say Anything)
CALLER: Earlier you had mentioned that when the time comes, you’re going to announce or get behind somebody, and I’m just wondering, what’s your selection criteria for picking a candidate, and two, how do you decide when that time is that you’re going to announce? I’m more interested in how you pick a candidate. Because especially this year with—there’s really not a true conservative. How do you narrow it down?
RUSH: That’s an excellent point. I don’t have a time frame, just to address that first. I don’t have a time frame.
CALLER: All right.
RUSH: And I also, I can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: And I never thought that I would say that in my life.
Which sounds to me like he is just complaining about the current field on top. I highly doubt he would sit it out because he knows how much is at stake. But its a sign of how poor the top candidates are in the Republican field to true conservatives.
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I could see where he would sit out.
McCain is a complete puppet of the liberal media when there’s been sufficient ‘outrage’ generated. He falls right in line with their views.
I really don’t need the Right successfully redefined by McCain. Especially when he’s going to act like a Democrat, fail like a Democrat, but have the blame put on Conservatism.
That Mark Levin is something! I wish we had him on AM here live. I know I could probably listen to him online, but if I start doing that, I won’t get anything else done.
Rush won’t sit out this election. Just some musing on his part.
Is the field thin? Yes. But, I won’t toss in the towel because of that.
Levin is da man Mike. Well worth listening to when you get the chance.
Re: “McCain is a complete puppet of the liberal media when there’s been sufficient ‘outrage’ generated. He falls right in line with their views. ”
McCain is not a Liberal. And the Media is not at all “Liberal” any more (unless your definition of “Middle-of-the-road” is NewsMax).
What McCain is very goot at is charming and manipulating the Media, of almost all stripes. He has, and continues to have them eating out of his hand. And the laziness of reporters, and their succeptibility to even the slightest charm, causes them to turn off all critical thinking that may have been left and just parrot talking points supplied to them.
I stopped paying any attention to any kind of political reporting from the “Media” years ago, when so-called “Liberal” Chris Mathews gushed his man-crush on George W. Bush as “the guy America would like to have a beer with”.
When something like that passes for political reporting, then ther is no use wasting any time listening or watching.
I’ll stick to The Economist, the (pre-Murdoch) Wall Street Journal and (are you sitting down?) blogs such as this where I can demand links to sources and facts that I can verify as accuratly reported, or distorted (a concept that I believe the general Media, of all stripes, would not even comprehend).
Item 2: No, Rush will not sit out this election. That would be emotionally impossible for him to do (not a criticism or compliment: That is just his personality,as I observe it). I do believe, however, that Rush Limbaugh will wait to see who the likely winner is and then declare that is the candidate he preferred all along: Rush doesn’t like to be seen as backing losers.
At some point I hope conservatives get excited about McCain. As it stands right now he beats all comers in head-to-head matchups. He’ll eat Obama for lunch.
FOX is debating whether Fred’s dropping out this morning. Who will folks turn to next? We need to unite and defeat the real domestic enemies – the Democrats.
McCain is a walking time bomb, You push the right buttons and you will find out. I for one do not want a Borderline nutcase anywhere near the Football.