Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Twilight of Conservatism...

is best evidenced by today's Jeff Jacoby column in the Boston Sunday Globe. Therein, he makes an at best desultory case for John McCain's mainstream conservative credentials.
The fact that Jeff has to do this at all and on behalf of a candidate with an 80 to 90% rating from all the usual GOP watchdogs only points to the intellectual rigor mortis that grips movement conservatism.
Well in truth, what can Jeff do?
Someone has to carry the frayed banner of reaction this fall, Huckabee is a giddy sky grifter, Romney is so fake has has "Made in Taiwan" stamped on his ass, so that leaves the aging and tempermental John McCain as the last man standing.

Thus Jacoby sighs and announces "On the whole his record has been that of a robust committed conservative".
THAT would be the same "committed conservative" who allegedly negotiated with Tom Daschle to switch parties in the spring of 2001, the same guy who voted against the Bush tax cuts insisting that they did nothing for the poor or the middle class and the man who might have been John Kerry's running mate.

If you look at McCain that way, he comes off as simply a better more supple opportunistic hack than that plastic bumbler Mitt Romney.
This is the man with whom Jacoby must make his peace, I wish them the joy of one another.

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