JOHN MCCAIN: LIBERAL?

From the Huffington Post courtesy of AlterNet:

Unhinged Coulter Uses Hitler Analogy To Bash McCain

"A serious case could be made to support Hillary Clinton," she declared, offering the analogy of Winston Churchill backing Stalin in the fight against Hitler in WWII. "I'm not equating Hillary Clinton to Stalin, and if I did I apologize to Stalin's decedents... I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy." Later, she added, "The only way I can promise that I won't vote for Hillary Clinton is if John McCain appoints her as his vice president."

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"McCain and [Mitt] Romney are mirror opposites of one another," said Coulter. "Romney is a conservative who had to win votes from liberals in Massachusetts. McCain is a liberal who had to win votes from conservatives in Arizona."

As for former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani: He "enthusiastically supported torturing terrorists," she said to great applause. "McCain hysterically opposes dripping water down the terrorist's noses."

And what if the unthinkable happens, and President McCain is inaugurated? I've led an impeachment movement before, Coulter said, and "I can lead another one."

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Wow. Pretty strong language from America's own Valkyrie. But then, I expect nothing less from such a bigtime cunt. What's surprising, however, to me anyway, is all this conservative animosity toward the guy who's pretty much locked up the Republican nomination.

At work today, some of us were having a brief conversation about the campaigns. One guy was asserting that McCain is a liberal, so I finally asked him, "exactly how is McCain a liberal?" My buddy in so many words essentially repeated his original assertion, which strikes me as being pretty much par for the course in terms of this right-wing "liberal" dog pile the fiery Senator is now facing. That is, I just don't get it.

McCain, who supports small government, laissez faire economics, a strong military, law and order, and is opposed to abortion rights, is not a liberal. I mean, it's just as simple as that. I know I've often referred to Bill and Hillary as being conservative, but really, they're more moderate/right than anything else, Nixonian conservatives if you will. But McCain, he's the real deal, one big right-wing cocksucker.

How can all these conservative radio idiots seriously be calling him a liberal?

Maybe I should tune in to Rush Limbaugh more often, which there's no fucking way I'm going to do, so barring that, I'll just have to speculate. For one thing, I know that McCain, as a knee-jerk supporter of business, opposes kicking out all the illegal immigrants because he wants them to be exploited as super cheap labor--you can call it what you want, but that's clearly a pro-capitalist position, and therefore a conservative position. On the other hand, racism and xenophobia are also conservative positions, and that's one of the things that appear to be pissing off these anti-McCain people. I guess he's just not racist enough for the legions of right-wing radio listeners, despite the fact that his position on the issue is clearly conservative. Go figure.

For another thing, I know that McCain essentially told evangelical leaders to fuck off during the 2000 campaign. It appears that they haven't forgotten about this, no matter how hard he's tried to get them back on his side. Completely lost in the shuffle is that disdain toward religion mixed with politics is very much a libertarian point of view, and therefore firmly entrenched on the conservative side of the spectrum. But no matter: these angry conservatives seem to believe that there's only room on the right for Bible thumpers; being a Christian doesn't count--you've got to thump your damned Bible, too.

Finally, McCain, as a victim of torture when he was a POW in Vietnam, is understandably opposed to torture, which, in my opinion, utterly transcends all political points of view: opposing torture is the only real American position out there--anything short of this is straight up anti-American, and therefore not conservative. But the anti-McCain crowd disagrees; they want their fucking torture.

Really, after thinking all this through, what appears to be going on is that, while it's undeniable that McCain is a conservative, not a liberal, he's not a Conservative. That is, he's not part of the so-called Conservative Movement, which seemingly requires total ideological purity, even though some principles of the Movement contradict other principles of the Movement. Yeah, it's confusing, but these people are fucking crazy anyway, so it's not at all surprising in the end.

If Angry John wants his party's support, he's really going to have to get down on his knees and blow like there's no tomorrow. These fuckers are serious.

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