February 22, 2008

CALLING ALL GOP DELEGATES:
TIME TO DUMP MCCAIN OVERBOARD

Events of this past week make it clear the Republican Party has to tell John McCain to stand down as its putative Presidential nominee, or else the GOP faces the prospect of its largest Presidential defeat since 1964, dwarfing the bruising failures of Bush the First and Dole.

National polls show Barack Obama, now the clear Democrat frontrunner, trouncing McCain by seven points nationally, 47-40.  Obama leads McCain among every classification of voter, be it by age, gender or color, except for voters more than seventy years of age — which is just a reminder that McCain is the oldest nominee ever of any first-time Presidential candidate, turning 72 in August, and cannot bridge Obama’s appeal to the youth vote on any grounds.

Now, Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason, a Republican appointee, is telling McCain that the Arizona Senator cannot withdraw from the strict regulations of the federal campaign finance laws that McCain exploited to resuscitate his faltering campaign last year.

Because the FEC laws which McCain helped write limit primary spending to $54 million, and McCain has already spent $49 million, he faces the frightening scenario where his campaign may be allowed to spend a paltry $5 million between now and the Republican GOP convention in early September. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022103141.html?hpid=topnews

As the above article notes, FEC spending limits confounded the ineptly run Bob Dole campaign of 1996, which was hamstrung during the spring and summer prior to the San Diego convention, while Bill Clinton was awash in campaign cash.  With Barack Obama raising $1 million a day on the Internet from small donors, McCain’s profligate campaign spending has the entire GOP November ticket in danger due to his sheer negligence.  Do we need that dreadful an administrator running for President?

McCain has so harmed GOP prospects with his weak campaign administration and his pandering for liberal and moderate votes, that his personal hypocrisy as manifested by recent articles in some regards becomes just another footnote of desperate trouble for the Republicans. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002898_pf.html

Nothing manifests McCain’s terrible relationship with conservatives better than the fact that some conservative voters are suddenly speaking better of him simply and only because the hated New York Times and Washington Post are finally revealing his personal and ethical foibles. 

How dire is the state of the conservative movement when our voters feel compelled to provide sympathy support to a candidate not because he presents coherent issue positions or a principled record, but because liberal media organs are finally, belatedly, exposing his shortcomings? 

Do people have to vote for McCain simply because he now appears a temporary “enemy” of the New York Times and Washington Post – media organs who have in fact relentlessly promoted McCain for years, due to his consistent betrayal of treasured conservative issue positions such as restriction of illegal immigration, protecting First Amendment political speech, supporting traditional marriage, and opposing the terrors of stem cell research?

Will the Republican Party Establishment do what is best for its adherents, and the nation, and finally tell the angry little man from Arizona to return to his role of being the Senate’s foremost “weird, old coot” and his Democrat colleagues’ favorite RINO? 

We must dump the erratic and utterly unreliable John McCain while there is still time to prepare a quality GOP Presidential candidacy for the fall.  The guy is a cinch loser, and the United States of America should not be forced to suffer simply because of McCain’s selfishness, ethical failures, crankiness, hypocrisy – and now evident inability to administer even a clean or competent national presidential campaign. 

If the GOP Establishment lacks the moral courage to tell McCain to stand down as nominee, then we voters have to do so through nonstop agitation, and revolt at an Open Convention.  Those Republicans who stayed lashed to the mast of the dreadful Bush ’92 and Dole ’96 campaigns know how miserable it is to ride with unprincipled losers.  What good did it do for American conservatism, and America to settle for the pick of the Party elites?

We cannot tolerate again such a situation and still remain a great Party of principle – and why ever should we, when we know eight plus months in advance that McCain will go down in general election flames this November?  It is past time for some true Straight Talk from the conservative base of the GOP:  Dump McCain NOW!

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