I feel violated. It appears that GOP has been hijacked by the neocons, liberals, and the so-called "mainstream" media.
Plotting together, they managed to manipulate the presidential nomination process to the point where an irrelevant loser with little money left, once slipping into political oblivion after angering American voters with his stubborn push for an amnesty for illegal aliens, within a few weeks at the turn of last year became, all of the sudden, the front runner of the Republican Party.
The chart published at [1] doesn't leave any doubts. One can see the continuously slipping voters' approval of McCain's candidacy into the single digit percentage zone, up until mid-December when the "mainstream" media began heavy advertising on his behalf. And it worked well, no questions about that. After all, the reason why businesses spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a 30 second ad during a popular show is that the viewers tend to buy what they see promoted on TV. And so they bought McCain and his masquerading as a true conservative who has party's base interest at heart.
It was all staged. One quasi-liberal candidate, McCain, running against several conservative and semi-conservative candidates that one by one dropped out of the race. The conservative ones split badly the base of the GOP, while candidate McCain collected all the votes of RINOs (Republican In Name Only), "moderates", and transvestite Democrats who managed to cast their votes en masse in the Republican primaries in Florida and elsewhere.
The "mainstream" media, mostly hostile to the Republican Party and its conservative agenda, promoted McCain in hope that he will lose to Clinton or Obama, which he, most likely will. But if their plan "A" doesn’t work, the media wouldn’t lose much even if McCain prevails. Because McCain is not just a RINO. In many aspects, he's a closet Liberal who came half way from the closet. If elected President, which at this point seems rather doubtful even if he runs against a second-tier Democratic contender, he will lead America to the invading hordes (a.k.a. illegal “immigrants”), and play her into hands of the Liberals, as he has done several times in the past.
So how bad a candidate is he? There is a video posted on the Internet [2] that says it all about McCain’s qualifications, or rather a lack thereof, as the next President of the U.S. During a meeting with his constituency in Arizona, he refused to answer a question regarding crimes committed by the illegals, while his staffers tried to silence a woman that was just trying to re-pose that question. As if First Amendment did not guarantee her the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". And that was very much in line with McCain's well-documented contempt of free speech. After all, he co-championed with Feingold the infamous Campaign Finance Reform that was designed to silence American people by banning ads within 60 days of a general election that are paid for by outside groups and identify a particular candidate. As one could expect, the "mainstream" media were left with unrestricted freedom of exercising their First Amendment rights, and could attack or promote any candidate of their liking at any time. So how could they not pay him back now?
Is Romney a perfect candidate? I doubt he is (not that he would make a bad President). I would rather see Lou Dobbs in the Oval Office, as I wrote in one of my earlier commentaries (see [3]). But the question here is not who is the best candidate overall, which McCain certainly is not, but if are we going to let the corrupt (excuse my language, I should said "lobbied") Washington establishment and the "mainstream" media elect our representatives? Shall we let them to put such an out-of-touch failure like McCain on a national pedestal despite the public's strong disapproval of his lackluster record as a U.S. Senator?
How different Romney and McCain are on the number one issue, immigration, one can find in [4]. While Romney appointed Kris Kobach, a well known defender of local governments' rights to enact ordinances against damages inflicted on their constituencies by illegal "immigration", as his immigration advisor, McCain drafted a rabid reconquista, Juan Hernandez, as his "Hispanic outreach" advisor. A brief but insightful profile of that Mexico's notorious agent (and the former member of Mexican government), who said that the Mexican American population in the United States should think "Mexico first", has been posted at [5].
Don't get me wrong. Citizen McCain deserves respect and gratification for his fighting the war as an American soldier. He paid dearly for his answering to a call of duty when he was captured as POW by the Vietcong, which fact - most likely - inflicted an irreparable damage to his personality and character. We all owe him a heart-felt gratitude and sympathy for the physical and psychological wounds that the war and captivity inflicted upon him. But the U.S. Presidency is not a reward for past contributions to the American nation. It's not a compensation for injustice and loss.
We need a president that will lead this country in the direction that a sound majority of American citizens want him to, courageous enough to stand up to Washington's corrupted (excuse my language, I should say "lobbied") structures of power, the political "correctness" dictatorship of the "mainstream" media, and quasi-revolutionary demands of ethnic lobbies. Unfortunately, McCain seems inherently incapable of any of these.
Meanwhile, TV networks and the "mainstream" media, with the help of McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, maneuvered themselves into position of de facto monopoly on influence, if not power. They are the ones who are likely to elect the next president of the U.S. I can't remember, though, why this is called a "representative democracy"?
So remember, only a vote on Mitt Romney in Republican primaries is a vote against McCain, a loser that is being aggressively imposed on us by the establishment and the "mainstream" media. By casting your vote on any other candidate you will be helping McCain to win the Republican nomination.
I do hope that we will have three presidential candidates running for the office this November, but for now, standing up and rejecting the “maverick” McCain is the first order of business for those of us who were sincere when they declared themselves as GOP voters.
REFERENCES
[1] Chart:
Republican Presidential Nomination
[2]
Don't Ask McCain
[3]
Why Should You Consider Voting For Lou If He Run?
[4]
Romney Appoints Hazleton Defender Kris Kobach To Advisor On Immigration (while Juan Hernandez Joins McCain Staff!)
[5]
John McCain’s open-borders outreach director: The next DHS secretary?
