Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:25:59 PM
I have to say I do not agree with this piece. I post it to show what others think about what Glenn Beck said and McCain as POTUS.
John McCain was not my choice for the GOP nomination. He ran a
perfectly appalling campaign, all the more heartbreaking because he
squandered the only exciting opportunity he managed to create: the
selection of Sarah Palin. McCain’s greatest mistake, which America has
not finished paying dearly for, was allowing the Democrat crooks behind
the subprime crisis to skate away without penalty. The miscarriage of
justice involved in leaving Barney Frank to happily count the money he
looted from American taxpayers pales beside the damage he continues to inflict on the economy. In fact, the Washington Examiner just ran a story
about the return of the very same policies that produced the subprime
crash. McCain is accountable for every bit of the damage people like
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd cause in the future, an accessory through
his silence. He spent far too much of his campaign dreaming of a big,
old-fashioned wedding with The Media, flanked by honored Senate
colleagues in tuxedos and bridesmaid gowns… while the object of his
affections staggered out of a tattoo parlor with Obama’s name written
all over her, fell into the back seat of the Lightworker’s muscle car,
and roared off in a shower of empty beer cans.
He was an awful candidate… but McCain would not have bitten his
tongue while Iran murdered its citizens, leaving their Fourth of July
picnic invitation on the table. He would not be working to install a
Chavez puppet as dictator of Honduras. He wouldn’t have tried to
sacrifice American intelligence agents in a show trial for political
gain. He wouldn’t shower America’s adversaries with concessions while
gaining nothing in return. McCain would have plenty of opponents, but
he wouldn’t spend an unseemly amount of time designating groups of his
constituents as enemies. He would know better than to casually accuse a
cop of racism on national television.
This is not to say that President McCain’s domestic policies would
have been superb. It’s impossible to predict exactly what anyone would have done
in the Oval Office. The butterfly effect from swapping out presidents
is so huge that it comes with pair of tiny Japanese girls, who speak in
unison when they warn of its approach. However, nothing McCain said
during the campaign made me anticipate a presidency of bold
conservative reform. I suspect we would have gotten something like the
lazy Bush slide to the left in most areas, sprinkled with the
occasional conservative policy, and the unmitigated disaster of amnesty
for illegal aliens.
During the campaign, disgruntled Republicans often said it would be
better to have Obama in office, showing everyone just how horrible
Democrat policies are, than tolerate a RINO like McCain pushing the
same policies in low gear, with bipartisan fingerprints. Glenn Beck’s
slap at McCain is a retroactive expression of the idea that
conservatism is just one crushing defeat away from total victory.
Anyone who thought it was worth putting Obama in office, as some kind
of object lesson for the American voter, gravely underestimated the
amount of damage he could do. Look at how far we’ve sailed past the
edge of fiscal sanity, in only nine months. It would take decades of
careful, moderate reform just to get us back to where George Bush left
us… and that wasn’t exactly an enviable position. Freedom is an endless
voyage, while tyranny has far too many points of no return. The course
we steered away from President McCain has taken us perilously close to
those terminal waters.