By Mr. Curmudgeon
The New York Times, a big fan of Arizona’s Sen. John McCain – until he won the presidential nomination of his party – is working to rehabilitate his image. “Let’s do what the president [Obama] said last October a year ago,” McCain told the Times, “Let’s all sit down together, Republicans and Democrats, with C-Span in the room, and negotiate so that the American people can see what’s going on here.” The New York Times loves nothing better than a prominent Republican eager to rollover for Obama Democrats, providing the thin fig leaf of bipartisanship.
Meanwhile, back in Arizona, McCain’s media-adoring “maverick” status is starting to wear thin. McCain faces a strong primary challenger in the form of former Congressman (and conservative) J.D. Hayworth. “The question that people are asking is this, do we want to send John McCain back to the United States Senate again, or is it time to change to a clear, consistent, common-sense Republican?” asked Hayworth. That same question could be asked of the nation’s Republicans.
After all, how many times does the county have to reject “reach-across-the-aisle” “compassionate conservatives” before the Party of Lincoln rejects squishy bipartisanites in favor of conservative candidates? As Sarah Palin said when she supported third party Conservative Candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, her party tends to support the “candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican…” Sen. McCain is such a Republican.
“I think there’s always going to be some maverick to McCain which makes him unpredictable and hard to pin down,” McCain adviser Mark McKinnon told the Times. ”Which is what makes him so interesting…”
The 2010 mid-term elections will be a referendum on Obama’s agenda. However, the Republican primaries should be a referendum on the disastrous and discredited “interesting mavericks” who governed like Democrats, destroying the Reagan legacy and the Republican congressional majority. It’s time McCain rode off into the sunset.
