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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Gregg Jackson :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why are Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann Crying About McCain?
by Gregg Jackson
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Yet Ann Coulter, who was quick to accuse GOP primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire who refused to vote for her cutie-pie Romney of "not doing their homework," ignored Romney's entire far left wing record and declared Romney to be "manifestly our best candidate?" What was that about "homework", Ann?

So what does all this have to do with McCain, you ask?

Simple.  The conservative talkers and pundits like Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann flagrantly misled their listeners and readers by falsely portraying Romney as a conservative. Many who would likely have voted for Huckabee cast their ballot for Romney-- the guy who Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann maintained was the true conservative that would unite "all three legs" of the Reagan Coalition.

And they weren't alone. Pseudo-conservative mercenaries like lawyers Jay Sekulow, Jim Bopp, David French, Hugh Hewitt, teamed with the now-discredited Richard Land, Gary Bauer, and Tony Perkins in deceiving their "flocks" by whitewashing Romney as an authentic social conservative whom pro-family "values voters" could support.

Had these talkers, pundits, and conservative "leaders" told the truth about Romney's $50 subsidized abortions, failing government run healthcare plan, $700 million in tax increases, increased funding for homosexual indoctrination starting in kindergarten, illegal institution of same sex marriage by misrepresenting the Goodridge court opinion and lying about the Massachusetts Constitution, support for homosexual Scout Masters etc… voters interested in supporting a true conservative would have likely gravitated toward Governor Huckabee far sooner and in huge numbers. But that couldn't be allowed to happen. The social conservative voters are the field slaves in this party, not the decision-makers.

Romney's limousine-chasing lawyers and rent-a-pundits savaged Huckabee with gross misrepresentations of his record and sabotaged conservatives' chance to deny John McCain the nomination. Instead of having the author of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and McCain-Lieberman as our nominee, we could have had the most authentic across-the-board conservative candidate currently in the race (Huckabee) -- the only candidate who supports a Human Life Amendment and a Federal Marriage Amendment, who is credibly and unapologetically pro-second Amendment, in favor of securing our border and building the fence (he has been endorsed by Duncan Hunter), and who has proposed the most aggressive fiscal tax policy of any candidate -- the Fair Tax, which would abolish the IRS and federal income tax.

These are not what honest people smear as "Jimmy Carter positions." Yet that's who the radio talkers and pundits keep telling us Huckabee is.  The truth was that their boy Mitt Romney is the GOP's closest counterpart to the Democrats' soulless Rorschach test, Barak Obama, a truly dangerous demagogue.

So, please, enough with the McCain-bashing, Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann. We could have had an authentic conservative Mike Huckabee as our nominee. Had you and your fellow travelers not waterboarded conservative voters for about a year with falsehoods, Huckabee would have united the base (you know those 40 million conservative Christians who put Republicans in the White House election after election). Do you think thinking conservatives are any more happy than you are with McCain as the Republican nominee? Not on your life. But the difference between you and us is, this is your fault.

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Gregg Jackson is a radio talk show host on WRKO in Boston and author of "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue By Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z."

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The Article Explains Why McCain Won
Dreadnaught asks: "If Huck is a Great American Leader, what is John McCain; the beat-up old timer who is currently mopping the party floor with him ? If you failed to see him with your eyes open; get yourself some specs."

Did you read the article "dreadnaught?" Apparently not. The reason we have McCain is that the celebrity conservatives like Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann as well as lawyer pundits like Sekulow, Bopp, French, and Hewitt covered up Romney's radical leftist record and in the process deceived millions of conservatives by falsely portraying Romney as a "Reagan Conservative" which siphoned votes from other more authentically conservative candidates such as Huckabee who would have beaten McCain if it were not for people like Ann Coulter who knew the truth about Romney's illegal institution of marriage and 50 dollar co pay abortions etc... but was too smitten with georgous Mitt to do what Weyrich ultimately did which was to admit she had made a mistake and renounce her support for Romney. That's why we ended up with McCain "dreadnaught." That's what you get when pseudo conservatives sell out for power, presitige, and money.

Time for a New Conservative Movement. The Mitt Romney Cover Up and Sell Out by the phony mercenary "conservatives" has proven that the old one is dead. Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann's days are numbered.

toss me a bone, liz
Wish you could tell me (us) a little more; explain what you mean saying, "Social Conservatives are the Slaves of the GOP Elite. They just pay us lip service before an election and we rush to their support -- gladly giving them our vote."

I'm a social conservative and was never a slave. Was I the slave of Al Gore ? No, I helped elect W. Was I the slave of John Freakm Kerry ? No; I helped re-elect Bush & Cheney. It wasn't exclusively your wing of the party got these things done, Liz.

"But, this November will be different! We have had our eyes opened. We recognized Huckabee for the Great American Leader he is. And we recognize the sabotage our GOP--"

If Huck is a Great American Leader, what is John McCain; the beat-up old timer who is currently mopping the party floor with him ? If you failed to see him with your eyes open; get yourself some specs.

But some kind of sabotage must've tossed sand in your eyes. Name the sabotage; won't you ?
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