Michelle Malkin calls out John McCain
Okay, so I’ve been a bit upset in the last several weeks by Michelle’s inaccurate (in my opinion) representations of Gov. Huckabee’s positions and record. However, here’s a piece that really has me thinking about what she’s saying about McCain. She’s right about his positions and stances. Has he changed or does he continue to treasure the thought of giving amnesty to the millions of illegals here who have flaunted our laws?
Malkin’s entire post is worth reading but I’ll excerpt a few salient quotes here:
After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, “straight-talking” GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans’ trust in their government’s ability to defend the homeland.
“I got the message,” he told voters in South Carolina. “We will secure the borders first.”
But how can McCain cure citizens’ distrust when his own credibility on the issue remains fatally damaged? He doesn’t believe his own election-year spin. And he knows we know it. This is cynicism on steroids with a speedball chaser.
Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party
His admission of the shamnesty failure is grudging and bitter. While he now tells conservative voters what they want to hear about the need to build the southern border fence, he takes a contemptuous tone toward physical barriers when talking to businessmen. “By the way, I think the fence is least effective,” he told executives in Milwaukee, according to a recent Vanity Fair profile. “But I’ll build the g.d. fence if they want it.” Straight talk? Try hate talk.
For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want—protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking–The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.
I’ll admit that I’m really struggling to come to terms with whom I could support if Gov. Huckabee is not the GOP nominee. Sen. McCain is extremely strong on national security and that issue is, of course, of great concern in the times in which we live. Gov. Romney has a trackrecord of successful financial dealings and economic turnarounds. The economy is becoming a larger issue every day and I fear that other candidates may not have the expertise and acumen to orchestrate a turnaround of the economy in the same way that Gov. Romney may be able to accomplish. I lost a great deal of respect for McCain during the immigration debate. I lost a great deal of respect for Romney when he resorted to dirty campaigning against Huckabee in Iowa when he saw his precious “slingshot” momentum strategy endangered by the upstart former preacher.
I am, I admit, perplexed. The GOP establishment has fought long and hard against the Huckabee candidacy. With the loss in SC, it is entirely possible that they have succeeded in derailing Huckabee this election cycle. I hope not, but it is likely that Huckabee will continue to face financial difficulties that will greatly impede his ability to get out his message. I could not, would not, support Rudy in any circumstance. If I remain in the GOP camp this election, which of the two remaining candidates (Romney or McCain) could I support and not feel resentment for having to do so? At this point, I have no answer.
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I feel your pain, my friend …
I find myself wondering now and then what to do and just who are my alternate choices.
Duncan Hunter was my second choice.
No force on earth — even the Clintons — will make me vote for Giuliani. I’m not sure about the others.
Part of me figures that McCain is okay because the establishment doesn’t like him … but he’s done a couple things that really bother me.
Maybe the best thing is to not have that answer. It must inspire you to work harder for Huckabee. Although, admittedly, there’s only so much we grassrooters can do.
Entering into Dialogue with a Fellow Christ-Follower
I would like to respond to two quotes from Huckabee’s “Issues” section on the “war on terror”:
He wrote:
“I believe in the Powell Doctrine of using overwhelming force to accomplish a mission.”
Haven’t you ever preached, as a pastor, on John 3:16 and the overwhelming love that was able to defeat evil at the cross?
“I will expand the army and increase the defense budget.”
Do the prophets not speak about a time in which we will beat swords into ploughshares? Does Jesus Christ not speak about turning the cheek and loving our enemies? Does this quote not undermine the words and work of Jesus Christ THE Commander and Chief of all that is?
It saddens me to read of how willing Huckabee is to sacrifice the fathers and sons of our enemies even as he passionately plead for the life of the unborn child. Does God not love both enemy and unborn child? Is the gospel not meant for the killed fetus and also the disemboweled extremist?