Conservatives Will Vote for John McCain Anyway; Here is Why

In a previous article, I highlighted 8 reasons proving that John McCain looks more like a Democrat than a Republican. For practical purposes, Senator McCain is a Democrat in disguise.

That is one of the main reasons why the senator's presidential race with Barack Obama remains a close one. He's running as a moderate Democrat, similar to what Hillary Clinton did during the latter part of the primary election season. By the way, former President Bill Clinton used the same strategy; he ran as a moderate Democrat.

Worse than being a Democrat impostor, Senator McCain has been consistently bashing and blasting President Bush, the real conservative and current standard bearer of the Republican Party. McCain is running against Bush, as though Bush were his opponent or enemy. As one who voted for President Bush, the "compassionate conservative", I really have a problem with McCain's angry Bush bashing.

So, if McCain is more like a Democrat, and he's dumping on the Republican President Bush, why are millions of conservative Republicans gearing up to vote for this man, rather than holding him accountable for betraying his party and conservative principles, and turning on the leader of his own party under the cover of "maverick"? Here are some reasons...

1. Conservative voters have talked themselves into the "lesser of two evils" philosophy. McCain is a lesser evil than Obama. What a smooth way to compromise your core principle!

2. Conservatives don't want to be branded "single-issue voters". They've believed conservative radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity that, in the 2008 elections, winning is everything. Even if we conservatives have to vote for an alien, let's do so; at least that's not Obama.

3. Conservatives have nowhere else to go, short of not voting at all. But if you really stand for principle, shouldn't you be able to do just that some times? Or at least, you should vote for a third-party candidate, who may not win, but you would have not sold your soul in the name of voting the party line. Whatever happened to "our conservative principles"?

4. Conservatives are betting on McCain for the sake of judicial appointments. They have convinced themselves that John McCain will appoint "strict constructionists", who will "interpret the constitution", not "legislate from the bench". That means pro-life judges, of course. Good talking points, but how do they know McCain will keep his campaign promise on this? If the man has flip flopped on numerous issues before, who's to say he won't do so when it comes time to appointing judges?

5. Many conservatives will vote McCain, because they say Obama is "Muslim", which may be code for "He's black." (Check out the article, "6 Other Ways to Say 'He's Black'.) These conservatives' fear of or hatred for Obama drives them into the arms of McCain, who is actually ashamed to be lumped together with conservative Republicans, except for their votes come elections day.

6. Millions of conservative voters are hoping that a vote for John McCain is actually a de facto proxy ballot for Sarah Palin, the true conservative. These conservatives see McCain as merely a front, a figurehead, the shortest route to electing President Sarah Palin. Now, they may be onto something there, when you take Senator McCain's age and health into account. If elected, it is likely McCain may not serve out his term(s), and when that happens, the conservative grassroots will get their big wish of keeping the White House.

For these and other reasons, our conservative fellow citizens don't mind leaving this country in the hands of the party that has brought us this low, with our international reputation in the trash bin, our economy in the dumps, our president having no clue of how to fix any of it.

John McCain, A Democrat in Disguise; Here Is Proof

We know John McCain. A conservative he ain't. And conservatives know that. McCain is what Democrats typically used to be in the 1960s, what some Southern Democrats still are. Today, to shield the true identity of such politicians, we call them moderate, or in McCain's case, "maverick".

What's the evidence that Senator McCain is a moderate Democrat rather than a conservative Republican? I could give you a long list, but let's cite the major points.

1. Joe Liberman would not passionately support a true conservative. The only difference between John McCain and his pal, Joe Liberman, is party tag. To be fair, McCain has a pro-life voting record, but since he does not campaign on that record, we could assume that he votes pro-life as membership due in the hierarchy of the Republican Party.

2. Until John McCain flip flopped on illegal immigration, he was for putting undocumented immigrants on the path to citizenship. That's a Democrat position.

3. Until John McCain converted, he had been against offshore drilling for years. That's a liberal stance. Now, he's all "drill, baby, drill" or "drill here, drill now, pay less."

4. John McCain supports embryonic stem cell research. That's a liberal posture. Truly pro-life conservatives are set against the destruction of human embryos for stem cell research.

5. John McCain agrees with Al Gore that global warming is man-made. That is a liberal ideology. Conservatives who accept the notion that the global climate is warming do not attribute the rise in temperature to human activity. So McCain sides with liberals in this debate.

6. Since the Wall Street melt down, Senator McCain has railed against greed on Wall Street. If you didn't know he was a Republican, you would think the man is a populist like liberal John Democrat John Edwards.

7. John McCain says practically nothing for the pro-life agenda, which is the holy grill of Christian conservatives. Again, it seems like he doesn't want America to know that he's pro-life. Oh yeh, he mentions that he's against abortion, when he's behind closed doors with conservatives.

8. Senator McCain's latest liberal stunt came during his debate with fellow Democrat Barack Obama on October 7, 2008, at Belmont University. McCain proposed to spend $300 billion of taxpayer money to buy all the bad home mortgages in America. This new proposal seals McCain's Democrat credentials. This, in addition to the $700 billion bailout that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got from Congress. Wow! McCain wants to get the federal government $1 trillion deep into the home mortgage business? What is fiscally conservative about that? Based on this stunt, who's the greater liberal, who's the socialist, Barack Obama or John McCain? I say, John McCain wins the label hands down!

This idea did not originate with McCain by any means. It's been talked about and written about by some economists and regular people alike, in fact by Search Warp's own Terry Mitchell. And let me add that I really like the proposal to help out homeowners by buying up their distressed mortgages in order to restructure their loans. I just want to point out that this plan does not fit the profile of the fiscal conservative that McCain claims to be. He may be putting forth this plan as a way to resurrect his falling poll numbers, but the fact remains that McCain doesn't mind winning this election as a pseudo conservative, an actual liberal.

Yes, he's still talking tax cut, but what national politician is not offering to cut our taxes these days?

So if John McCain has so little in common with conservative Republicans, why will they vote for him? Well, that's the subject of the next article, "Conservatives Will Vote for McCain Anyway; Here is Why."