American Thinker: Signs Pointing To A McCain Victory
Of course, we all know what the mainstream media’s “narrative” will be if (I believe, when) John McCain wins the election: The American people refused to vote for Obama because of the color of his skin (and not because of the content of his politics). The “right-wing attack machine” scared voters into voting for McCain, even against their own social and economic self-interest. Black and poor voters were intimidated by Republican thugs and prevented from voting. We know this story by heart as well.
So be prepared. In a few more weeks, the political environment in this country is likely to become a heckuva lot nastier. For there are real signs pointing to a McCain victory this year, whether or not the mainstream media wants to acknowledge them.
We’ve already been threatened with promised black riots in the streets if Obama loses.
I sincerely hope McCain loses. Because when it all comes apart over the next four years, I don’t want the left-wing MSM hate machine to have a ready-made “fascist conservative” in the White House on which to blame everything.
Democrats and other socialists and commies are primarily responsible for the mess this country is facing. Let them and their ugly, hoggish faces be on the center of the targets when the public finally starts looking for somebody to lynch.
Face it - by winning, John McCain could inadvertently do more to destroy conservatism in this country than he has ever managed to do intentionally.
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Or wins. Would not want to be a Korean grocer.
At the moment I think it would be better if McCain did win. The fact that the coming disaster would then be spread across both parties may wake the electorate to the fact of the real problem, we have created a political class whose sole purpose is to be elected for life, and decide to replace all of them. My preferred method of replacement would be using the current crop as decorative features on lampposts that line Pennsylvania Ave in DC as an object lesson to the next group of employees of their job description. I know this is a forlorn hope at best.
Nope. The electorate isn’t rational, isn’t very intelligent, and is ignorant as hell. It looks for stupidly simple answers from the easiest possible sources, and so if the leftwing MSM tells it everything is McCain’s fault for being so conservative, they’ll believe it, blame McCain, and blame conservatism in general.
I’ll be happy to entertain exceptions to this phenomenon if you can find any, but I don’t think you can.
If I believed for one minute they’d be allowed to take the blame, I’d be inclined to agree. But we know they won’t. Nothing bad will ever be allowed to be his fault. It will all still be Bush’s fault. Look at how they’ve managed to pin the current mess on Republicans even though we have scads of video of Frank and Co. refusing to do anything about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. That’s what we can expect from here on out if Obama wins.
Left-wing policy only ever fails because of the right-wing hate machine getting in the way, not because it’s bad policy.
Forlorn hope. My how the language changes. Now if we could make congress the forlorn hope…
I can’t, but the MSM is spending it’s capital and what little it has left of it’s reputation to get Bambi elected that it may be entirely superfluous after the election.
An Obamunist victory would be a disaster for at least a generation, if not more.
Think about probably the youngest and most left SCOTUS appointees ever.
Same fo all the other Federal Judgeships up for grabs.
A DoJ full of Attorneys like Bernadine Dohrn and Michelle Obama.
Obama would be an unmitigated disaster for this Republic.
MSM doesn’t have or spend any capital. It’s viewers stopped being interested in accuracy long ago. The MSM is now entertainment. They bring you the story of a hero named Obama, who is cool but exotic, and who wins the improbable big score. Sort of like the movie “Trading Places”. It would be instructive to toss trite movie script cliches into this thread to see how the next 4 years will be portrayed.
I think that they will ridicule the outrage that O’s radical policy suggestions will cause. They will portray them as pranks against the stuffy establishment.
O will cut defense spending by 25%, and Republicans and DoD officials will be apoplectic, and the MSM will cut to O, with a big braying laugh, and a twinkle in his eye.
O will retroactivly tax 401ks and the MSM will show upper class gated community residents stomping their feet, and then cut to O high-fiving his cool cabinet.
Why, then, we’re doomed no matter what we do, aren’t we?
So why all the babble for a McCain admin that will do little or nothing to slow the destruction, but makes all you McCainiacs (who aren’t conservatives, and who are barely Republicans) feel so good?
Here’s a clue for the clueless: McCain would refuse to veto any SCOTUS nominee a Dem congress sends him, unless that nominee were openly communist. And maybe not even then.
Remember, this is John “Alito is too conservative, Gang of 14″ McCain, the RINO bastard.
Refresh your memories about your non-existent savior McCain.
I agree, we are doomed, no matter what we do.
My apologies. This is gibberish.
Of course any nominee sent to congress will come from McCain, and of course he won’t veto his own nominees, nor does he even have an opportunity to do so. God only knows what I was thinking when I wrote it.
Probably something along the lines of, “John “Maverick RINO” McCain, in the name of bipartisan comity, would send anything up to an avowed communist to Congress as a SCOTUS nominee. Because he could not care less if SCOTUS is made up of conservative, textualist judges, and is, in fact, actively hostile to conservatives in general.”
Now that sounds more like you.
Well, I guess that brings us back to:
“Vote McCain: Four more years (to buy ammo).” ;-)
Olds, if you don’t have sufficient ammo by now, you just haven’t been paying attention. I don’t see how four more years is going to do you any good.
I ain’t pretty enough to pay for it withen my good looks. One does what one can.
Is there such a thing when you might be buying for your grandchildren?
And I think that a McCain win will destroy the power of the MSM propaganda machine. The NYT is already toast–this election cycle has exposed them enormously.
They will try to do what they always do if McCain wins–but they will be hampered by the damage they’ve done to themselves in pursuit of the Obama coronation–without the Fairness Doctrine they won’t be able to hide it.
One of the biggest handicaps in opposing the socialist state and its media handmaidens is naivete like this. No, the NYT isn’t destroyed, and won’t be, until the day the family that owns it is no longer able to put newspapers onto the street, or propaganda onto the net. And McCain would be more likely to prop it up rather than try to destroy it - these guys are his buddies, remember?
And your other area of naivete is McCain himself. Do you really think Senator “I’d Rather Have Clean Government Than A First Amendment” McCain would veto a Fairness Doctrine coming out of Congress packaged as a “Clean out the power of special interests” initiative?
I mean, look at who the target of a Fairness Doctrine would be - people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and even me. You think John McCain gives a damn about our rights? He hates us.
But hey - they tell me pie in the sky tastes almost as good as cowpie on the ground - and it’s less filling, too!
If there is any hope at all, it is that we need four years to organize a revolutionary change in politics. It must come from outside the current Rep/Dem power structure. Unlike the Conservative Party it needs to be focused on people, not talk, and vision not platform. Nute’s ‘contract’ was a good vehicle–too bad that it was squandered for so little change and resulted in our current liberal backlash.
And let’s not forget that McCain was openly flirting back in 2001 with bolting to the Democratic party. Bill is right…he hates conservatives, and he’s obviously too stupid to grasp that a first amendment is how you get government that is reasonably free of corruption and accountable.
Not so - cf. LBJ-Nixon, and Carter-Reagan.
I see what you’re saying, dodd, but in these two cases, the voters didn’t buy it. I don’t think they’ll be buying the excuses on offer from the liberal media in 2010 and 2012, either.