Riehl World View
Michelle Malkin links to Mary Kay Ham feeding back on a John McCain campaign conference call. MK uses the concept of a lover's quarrel to discuss McCain's relationship with bloggers. For the record, my battered spouse line isn't directed at MK personally.
Call me the tough love type. McCain is courting the blogosphere because he wants something. I don't care that he wasn't doing it before, what I care about are positions that he has taken over the last six years - and more. Frankly I can't even remember everything for which I see him as unacceptable for POTUS.
The Gang of 14, early open criticism of the war ... why bother. I had the good fortune to be listening to the Mark Levin Show on the way home as he played a Reagan Speech from 1964. I would advise anyone who fancies himself a conservative, or even a libertarian to listen to it. You will realize we are fighting many of the same battles now as conservatism was then.
Let me say it again, in context, it is that important. It's an amazing speech I never heard, being about 7 at the time. And I am not waiting for some reincarnation of Reagan - sadly, that isn't a standard I can afford to wait around and indulge.
In 1982, he was elected to Congress representing what was then the first congressional district of Arizona. In 1986, he was elected to the United States Senate
But while I honor him for his incredibly difficult military service, John McCain has been on the political scene for about 25 years. In that time, he has been as much a part of the problem as he ever was a solution.
With all due respect, pull up a cushion Senator - you're sleeping on the couch. Consider it a way station en route to the door. Politics may make for strange bedfellows. But President Bush has been far from a hallmark of conservatism. And I'll be damned if I'll take a risk on getting screwed by someone who hasn't been faithful all too many times before.