“But beyond the obvious relish McCain takes in tweaking the noses of conservatives by supporting anti-free speech campaign finance rules, immigration disasters, and other “maverick” impulses that seem to strike the Arizona senator from time to time, there is another reason conservatives find McCain such a problematic candidate; they don’t trust his conservative instincts.”
I consider myself a conservative and I do not consider McCain’s stand on any of those issues as “tweaking” my nose. Those positions are a very real threat to this country and the constitution.
The Media’s cutsie nackname of “maverick” is just their way of offering praise to any non conservative conservative. And that’s one part of the big picture, how and why the media frames the public debate as they do, and that is what needs to be seriously examined.
In my opinion the reason someone like McCain has such popularity is that he fill the list of expectations created by the media. There are a very large number of people that absorb their news and attitudes about the would from the surrounding media. These people don’t spend a lot of time pondering the details of any any particular law or philosophy, they are primarily emotive and are driven by emotional events and circumstances. These are the people who are deeply influenced by the pervasive (Mostly Liberal) mythologies created by the media. They make their political decisions based on a combination of emotions and political dead reconing using the pervailing current media script (McCain is a maverick, illegals are all noble and righteous and deserve whatever we can give them, the purpose of government is literally to make life FAIR, etc)
I know it is a recurring theme that is getting a bit tired, but it really will take someone like a Regan to explain to Americans in a friendly and serious way what conservative principals are and why the work every time they are adopted. Only someone that can cut through the wall of media mythologies and disinformation will have any real effect. That person is not someone who plays footsie with the media to garner their affections, or rather, that person is not McCain. Ans that is why we are “lurching Left”.
