How About the Conservatives Learning Something from McCain?
Roger, I know it is excruciatingly difficult to make a passionate argument for reasoned, objective moderation to our modern, pouting Barnburner Philistines, but can you somehow scream this message in their faces for six hours until their ears fall off? Make a recording of this editorial narrated by some screamo musician tearing his vocal chords out to penetrate the impenetrable coconuts of those that would chop their heads off to spite their faces? Is there anyway to make the blinkered Paulists, the Rushites, the Coulterese, to see that McCain is a gift in disguise, well within Republican Party tradition of electing moderates in the most dangerous of times? (Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt come to mind.) The radical abolitionists were right on many issues, but wrong on how to go about it. They needed Lincoln, who sympatized with them, yet were villified mercilessly by the same, because he simply understood politics and how to get something done. McCain will negotiate on all but one issue – he will not waver in the face of terrorism, and for that every American should be deeply thankful he is there, because if he were like the Dems on national defense, all the other issues become mere mirages.
