Fox News confirms VFR view that McCain lacked desire to defeat a black
Joseph C. writes:
Several weeks ago I wrote that McCain viewed the election as his last act of patriotism—i.e., defeat the true conservatives, then lay down for the general election so as not to deny the black candidate the win (or the MSM their orgasm).
I refer you to the Lisa Schiffren post at the Corner:
The Fox News reporter who had covered the campaign, whose name escapes me, reported, forthrightly, that some McCain aides had felt for a while that their candidate had had a deep reluctance to impede the election of the nation’s first African American president. That he had, perhaps, pulled punches and failed to strike as hard as necessary to win this thing, for that greater good. The report was infuriating, since more depended on the election than changing the race dynamic—which, it must be said, has been changed for some time, and did not require this particular symbol to validate it. To be sure, McCain must have known that his campaign was losing—and did not want to swing blindly. And maybe he didn’t like being called “erratic,” “desperate”, and a “racist” every time the inconvenient facts of Barack Obama’s short past came up for discussion.
But all Republicans who watched their candidate these past few months, must have been struck, as I have been, by the sense that he was holding back.
[end Schiffren quote]
If there is one group of saboteurs that should be tarred and feathered even more than the Neocons, it is the cadre of consultants and other prostitutes who follow the advice of the New York Times and others, as if the enemy really has their best interests at heart. Every time the Republicans listen to their advice, they get walloped. Blob Dough in 1996, McCain in 2008:
• “We must nominate a moderate, someone who will appeal to the center. Nominating an in-your-face conservative will get us beaten in a McGovern-like landslide.” So they nominated a moderate. Look where it got them.
• “We can’t afford to push the immigration issue. If we do, we won’t be able to attract a decent percentage of Hispanics.” (NOTE: They never say the candidate can attract a majority, only a decent percentage.) So they nominated the most sycophantic Republican candidate possible on this issue, and what happened? McCain got about 28% of the Hispanic vote. (I call that a McGovern-like landslide).
• “We have to find a candidate attractive to minorities.” Name me one candidate that exists. When Republicans run black candidates against white Democrats, blacks still vote 90% for the Democrat. If they think what they need is another McCain with a deeper tan, then maybe they can dust off Colin Powell, and he can lead them to the oblivion they so thoroughly deserve.
• “If we nominate an unapologetic conservative, the media (and the Democrats, a tautology to be sure) will tear him apart.” So they nominated the media’s favorite Republican, and the Republican most proud of working with the Democrats—and the media tore him apart.
So, in sum, McCain took their advice, got about 28% of the vote among his targeted constituency, and about 5% among his “base” (the MSM). And these are the people that should be listened to?
Already, many Republicans are accepting the MSM spin, that McCain was in the running but blew his chance by going negative at the end. Anyone who thinks that mentioning lack of executive experience is “going negative” is delusional. The fact is, McCain won the only race that he cared about—the primary. And while he did not achieve the presidency, he accomplished his goal—he won’t be called a racist for at least a few weeks.
A traditionalist watching today’s GOP must feel like an older brother who dreams that his sibling will play linebacker on the football team, and then watches in horror as he is picked on by bullies and refuses to fight. After a while, you realize that little Johnnie would rather play jacks with the girls.
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Carol Iannone writes:
When I was listening to McCain’s concession speech last night, and the way he going on about American racism and how great the election of a black man was, I felt like saying to McCain, “Well maybe you should have voted for Obama too.”
Neil P. writes:
The FOX reporter with the story about McCain’s not wanting to defeat a black man was Carl Cameron, I’m almost certain.
I think Rush said something about this speech being McCain’s real self.
LA writes:
I think I said last spring that McCain would not want to defeat a black man.
There was also that McCain campaign aide who had told McCain back in 2007 that if Obama were the nominee, he could not work to defeat him, and indeed when Obama clinched the nomination, that aide left the campaign.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2008 07:21 PM | Send