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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Gregg Jackson :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why are Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann Crying About McCain?
by Gregg Jackson
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 Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter and many others in the conservative media have been attacking Senator McCain relentlessly, assailing him as a liberal and referring to him as "Juan McCain." Limbaugh has claimed that a McCain (or Huckabee) nomination would "destroy the Republican Party."

Frankly, it is unfathomable to me and many others how any honest and responsible person could fail to say exactly that about Willard Mitt Romney -- if they've done the homework assignment  Now that Romney has "suspended" his campaign and McCain looks like the inevitable nominee, many of the conservative elites continue to cavil and lambaste McCain. Ann Coulter stated on "Hannity & Colmes" that she would go work for Hillary before voting for McCain. Hmmm.

Not to be outdone, talk radio host Laura Ingraham stated "there is no way in hell" she could "pull the lever for John McCain."

I for one am getting a little sick and tired of listening to the relentless screeds and caterwauling of these conservative elites who are in many regards totally disconnected from the conservative base -- especially the evangelical Christian field slaves who bring in the harvest. Why are the spoiled elites complaining about McCain like a bunch of petulant children when the reality is that, collectively, they share considerable blame for the fact that McCain is our likely nominee?

You see for months these conservative elites have been whitewashing by far the most left wing GOP presidential candidate in American history, Mitt Romney.

Most left wing GOP candidate you say, Gregg? But all the conservative talkers told me he was the most able to unite the Reagan Coalition. I thought he was the most conservative candidate we had?

Let's review what the conservative pundit "Dream Team" ruthlessly covered up about their boy Mitt while inadvertently putting us on a one-stop railroad to McCain City. As I have written in numerous exposes here on Townhall.com, as governor, Willard Mitt Romney:

- Signed into law a mandatory health insurance plan that established taxpayer-funded abortion at fifty dollars each as a healthcare "benefit" (after his supposed "pro-life conversion.) -- a healthcare plan enthusiastically endorsed by Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Planned Parenthood -- that the Wall St. Journal has recently reported is already in "intensive care."

- Illegally instituted "same sex marriage" in the Cradle of Liberty to fulfill a campaign promise to the Log Cabin Republicans he made to them in 2002 not to oppose "same sex marriage" in the process violating  at least 8 articles of the oldest functioning constitution in the world- the Massachusetts Constitution authored by John Adams.

- Forced Catholic Charities, the state's largest and oldest adoption and foster care agency to place children with homosexual couples (or abandon all adoption and foster child work to non-Christian politically correct left-wing agencies -- which they eventually were forced to do). Romney lied to pretend he was under a legal obligation to do this, but even former Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis pointed out that with a stroke of his pen Romney could have canceled the administrative regulation that he was pretending was a "law."

- Forced Catholic Hospitals to issue abortifacients ("morning after" abortion pills) even though they were not legally required to do so. Again, Romney lied about state law to cover his motive and was against caught doing so by liberal former governor Dukakis! (How does a supposedly "pro-life," "conservative" Republican keep getting caught sneaking to the left of Michael Dukakis?)

- Supported homosexual Boy Scout Masters and state laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

- Raised taxes and government fees by over $700 million which decimated the Massachusetts economy.

- Shifted state taxes to municipalities to appear to balance the budget (his "economic miracle") causing local property taxes to skyrocket and devastate many families.

- Supported McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" and McCain-Kennedy "comprehensive immigration reform" (i.e. amnesty) and opposed the Bush Tax Cuts.

In establishing taxpayer-funded abortion on demand as a "healthcare benefit" and unconstitutionally ordering officials to perform "same-sex marriages," Mitt Romney was able to achieve what neither Hillary nor Barak nor any other Democrat has ever been able to. Continued...

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Gregg Jackson is a radio talk show host on WRKO in Boston and author of "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue By Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z."

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Subject: The Article Explains Why McCain Won
Dreadnaught asks: "If Huck is a Great American Leader, what is John McCain; the beat-up old timer who is currently mopping the party floor with him ? If you failed to see him with your eyes open; get yourself some specs."

Did you read the article "dreadnaught?" Apparently not. The reason we have McCain is that the celebrity conservatives like Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann as well as lawyer pundits like Sekulow, Bopp, French, and Hewitt covered up Romney's radical leftist record and in the process deceived millions of conservatives by falsely portraying Romney as a "Reagan Conservative" which siphoned votes from other more authentically conservative candidates such as Huckabee who would have beaten McCain if it were not for people like Ann Coulter who knew the truth about Romney's illegal institution of marriage and 50 dollar co pay abortions etc... but was too smitten with georgous Mitt to do what Weyrich ultimately did which was to admit she had made a mistake and renounce her support for Romney. That's why we ended up with McCain "dreadnaught." That's what you get when pseudo conservatives sell out for power, presitige, and money.

Time for a New Conservative Movement. The Mitt Romney Cover Up and Sell Out by the phony mercenary "conservatives" has proven that the old one is dead. Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann's days are numbered.

toss me a bone, liz
Wish you could tell me (us) a little more; explain what you mean saying, "Social Conservatives are the Slaves of the GOP Elite. They just pay us lip service before an election and we rush to their support -- gladly giving them our vote."

I'm a social conservative and was never a slave. Was I the slave of Al Gore ? No, I helped elect W. Was I the slave of John Freakm Kerry ? No; I helped re-elect Bush & Cheney. It wasn't exclusively your wing of the party got these things done, Liz.

"But, this November will be different! We have had our eyes opened. We recognized Huckabee for the Great American Leader he is. And we recognize the sabotage our GOP--"

If Huck is a Great American Leader, what is John McCain; the beat-up old timer who is currently mopping the party floor with him ? If you failed to see him with your eyes open; get yourself some specs.

But some kind of sabotage must've tossed sand in your eyes. Name the sabotage; won't you ?
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