This scolding message was directed by John McCain at the very people he must excite to put the Maverick senator from Arizona in White House.
I didn’t sign up for this.
I signed up with the GOP in 2000 after 18 years in the morally and intellectually bankrupt Party of the Left to scold liberals and their policies that have had America slouching towards Gomorrah at various speeds for more than 40 years. I was won over by the successful Reaganite policies of: peace thru strength that defeated an evil empire and which inform the successful policies of President George W. Bush that have kept us safe for so long; supply-side economics that produced the Reagan Recovery we still enjoy; and a respect for self government by We the People rather than activist judges.
No, I didn’t sign up with the GOP to be scolded by a regular interloper with the Left. But a regular interloper is not as bad as those with whom one interlopes, especially if the applicant for the job we have to fill understands how to perform the main duty, i.e. defend us from all enemies foreign and domestic.
I did not sign up for this, but we have a job to fill in America, and I am signed up as one of We the People for the duration.
I am excited to keep the Left out of the White House, and we can only fill the CEO vacancy with one of the applicants. I am also excited to fill the Congress with conservatives that will stop the bi-partisan adherents of the Church of Man-Made Global Warming from building on their assault against Edison’s light bulb and Ford’s freely made progeny of the Model-T.
But I am most excited to continue ruling with Rush Limbaugh and Redstate to hold the feet of the hired hands in Washington to the fire to prevent open borders, new taxes and defunding of wars we must win.
At age 44, gamecock finally learns once and for all not to put faith in any man. Put faith in the Lord, his principles and the wisdom of We the People.
I suspect I will get really excited when our imperfect vessel is attacked from the Left by ones that named him Maverick.
Hey, how can I, a follower of the first real maverick, Old Hickory himself, one man with courage making majorities, reject the latest incarnation out of hand?
I won't and can't.
But it takes no courage for a Beltway denizen to agree with the beltway chatterers in co-starring roles on Sunday Shows as he slams republicans.
No, the courage will be required when he has to show the same anger towards liberals that turn on him and attack his conservative views that he has so often shown towards fellow Republicans in the Senate Cloak Room. He will be called a racist, warmongering Scrooge. He will have to risk being thought of by them as he seems to think of us with his “calm downs”, as the Left suggests that most of conservative positions are born of “emotion” rather than any substance.
Then, we can all get excited, for shared suffering will bond us. McCain will become one of us rather quickly then. For by becoming our nominee, he is signing up to receive from the Left what we have too often received from him. He will then truly be one of us, and we can all calm down together!
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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