President McCain
By adamsweb Posted in 2008 — Comments (25) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Republican voters are trending towards John McCain in recent primaries. Many will try and dissuade you from voting for John McCain. I certainly may do this, but not in this column. I’ll just tell you what this man will do.
What would John McCain do as President? Many of his supporters are ignorant of his record, or overlooking it. This column will project what a John McCain presidency would look like. If you still vote for him after reading this, the pain that comes on this country will be on your own head:
Social Issues: John McCain will appoint liberal judges to the federal bench. He will make the defense of his unconstitutional campaign finance law a priority. Those judges who will rule for that unconstitutional abomination are very unlikely to see the error of Roe v. Wade as that requires a strict constructionist judicial philosophy, which those who support McCain-Feingold would not have.
John McCain would fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research. The McCain Administration, by doing so, would not relieve suffering, as recent advances have been able to develop embyronic stem cells without destroying human life, but would rather lead to ennobling abortion as a way for women to take an unwanted pregnancy, get an abortion, and use the stem cells to help those suffering from various diseases. McCain would turn abortion into a noble choice.
Economic Issues: John McCain can be expected to increase the payroll tax as part of a social security fix. He will do nothing to reform our out-of-control federal tax system.
He will rightly strain the gnat of pork barrel spending, only to swallow the camel of overly excessive environmental regulation. Even now, Americans are suffering with higher gas prices, and consequently higher prices on everything, in part because of John McCain’s refusal to support drilling in ANWR.
This would deepen as McCain would implement environmental proposals similar to Kyoto with the support of a Democratic Congress. This would further increase the price of energy and fuel for all Americans, and raise prices on everything else.
Sovereignty: John McCain has no respect for America’s sovereignty. This shows most prominently in his support for illegal immigrant amnesty, but will show in other areas as well, such as his backing of the Law of the Sea Treaty and the International Criminal Court.
American sovereignty will retract under John McCain Administration in the name of expanding the powers of International organizations that have already failed us.
Havoc on the Republican Party: John McCain will take a wrecking ball to the Republican Party.
Republicans will lose seats under McCain as Republicans loss seats under Eisenhower (the president most similar to McCain), beginning with McCain’s own Senate seat, which will be filled by the Democratic Governor of that state. With McCain’s policies appealing more to liberal and moderate voters than conservatives, many McCain voters will continually elect Democrats to Congress. If McCain were to serve two terms, by the time he ended his tenure, Republicans would certainly have less than forty senate seats and less than 175 House Seats.
In addition to this, his amnesty for illegal aliens will lead to a host of new Democratic voters, as immigrants tend to be with the party of bigger government that provides more services until they move up to the middle class. If John McCain is President, the 109th Congress may be the last time in our lifetimes we ever see a Republican Majority in Congress.
These are a few of the likely consequences if John McCain is elected President. If Republicans love liberty, they will band together to stop this man. If they do not, John McCain is someone they richly deserve.
I don't see a McCain Presidency as the author described.
First of all, this is not a 9/10 world -- we are at war, and you seem to have conveniently ignored the fact that McCain is a steadfast supporter of American efforts to win in Iraq and elsewhere in the GWOT.
Second, you take every one of these examples to the extreme. While there is a great deal to worry about in a McCain administration, I could easily write a far more damning version of this for Romney or Huck.
Because we are in a Darwinian struggle for our existence and NOTING ELSE MATTERS. Free Markets can go to heck, doesn't matter how many babies get killed. Just survive, baby. Doesn't matter if the GOP tanks nationally and conservatism dies, it's all about survival.
While there is a great deal to worry about in a McCain administration, I could easily write a far more damning version of this for Romney ...
Jeff, it's not exactly a secret that your opinion of Romney places him somewhere between Aldrich Ames and Satan, and chances are that it would have no place on a family site. That's all well and good.
But frankly, you're the same guy who wrote that Republicans have yet to figure out that "bipartisanship" in the Democratic and media lexicon only happens when Republicans completely capitulate to Democratic demands.
Let's be honest here; no one on the GOP side in the Senate has done more to give this definition teeth than John McCain in the past seven years. No one has done more to give legitimacy to Democratic obstructionism and intransigence. Not even the weaker one of our Maine weak sisters has made such a fetish of this particular neutering form of "bipartisanship."
I really don't know what to say if you honestly think there is any chance that this is going to stop if McCain gets into the Oval Office. I wouldn't go as far as to say that McCain would appoint liberals to the Court, but I will definitely say that he would seek a "bipartisan consensus" nominee ... and you already know what that means.
McCain promises to be the most "bipartisan" Republican President ever. It'll be the "New Tone™" on steroids. So while liberals and "moderates" may be swooning ... but you will understand if a lot of us are not exactly very happy about it.
Your Huckabee-Romney talking points are so completely off the mark I wonder if you read them elsewhere before coming up them here. I also wonder what reality they came from.
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Here, I heard he was going to kill kittens.
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Watch out. It's a rumor spreading around the blogosphere. He is going to round up Fredheads and force them to attend propaganda courses at our country's most liberal colleges.
...Don't tell them that he's really HWSNBN in disguise...
"Fred's my conservative guru, but McCain's my President."
If you want to tell the world how awful things would be if Republicans win, then go join the Daily Kos.
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If you want to know what McCain would do in the future, look at what McCain has done in the past: Stab conservatives in the back at every opportunity to get good press from the New York Times crowd.
... you can take this diary and toss it.
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Excessive hyperbole actively hurts, rather than helps.
If you want to make a convincing case for why you think, as I do, that John McCain in the White House is going to see a lot of the legislation on Ted Kennedy's wish list get a Presidential signature, avoid ridiculous overstatements and actually provide a cogent argument.
Here's something I found at National Review's Corner regarding a possible McCain presidency and how it would operate.
McCain refuses to rule out Lieberman as a VP, and in the past refused to state that he would support the Republican running against Lieberman for the Senate.The most logical theory is that as President McCain would legislate the same way he does as a Senator: start with the Democrats then win over enough liberal Republicans to avoid filibuster. Probably the main exception would be on military issues, where he would start with the Republicans for something like war funding, or mixed Democrats and Republicans for shutting down Guantanamo and on “torture”.
Judges would likely continue with the Gang of 14 approach. None of them would come anywhere near Roe. They’d be liberal Republicans or Democrats.
As you pointed out in another column, if McCain tried to placate conservatives now, it could help him in the primaries. But he is choosing not to do so. The likely explanation is that he wants to run a centrist, bipartisan government.
It makes sense when you really think about it. As a US Senator representing a conservative state like Arizona, McCain could have voted more like his fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl. Kyl voted for the Bush tax cuts and supported the nuclear option to end judicial filibusters. Kyl supports drilling in ANWR. Clearly, the fact that Kyl has been reelected several times in Arizona indicates that McCain's drift to the Left has not been motivated by political necessity, but is based on McCain's ideology. So, once McCain gets into office, we can probably expect more of the same: bi-partisanship defined as Democrats getting what they want.
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