His campaign embraces McCarthyite tactics; appeals to fear and racism, throws around the GOP charges of voter fraud, and the rightwing still hates him.
As we have noted here before, though there's no open talk from GOP insiders: There is a secret let-McCain-fall program: Call it McCainCon [a play on the secret EComCon conspiracy from the Seven Days in May movie based on the Fletcher Knebel-Charles W. Bailey II book].
McCain is a fatally weak GOP candidate to face Obama, and it’s likely that many GOP movement wingers see him as a 2008 sacrificial sheep happily slaughtered to the 2012-2016 gods.
That appeared clear months before.
Now, McCain has really miffed the rightwing. The Hill reports that McCain
has alienated the Republican base by supporting a $700 billion Wall Street bailout and proposing that the federal government buy mortgages facing default, conservative lawmakers and observers say.
Three conservative House Republicans (speaking on background) said Sen. McCain (Ariz.), the party’s presidential nominee, missed an important opportunity to prove his credentials as a proponent of limited government by opposing the massive bailout.
I'm suggesting a plot by conservative movement officers to sabotage the GOP nominee for president of the United States.
And many conservatives need only participate with faint energy in the campaign to add their support to this McCainCon conspiracy, watching a man they dislike take the fall in a Goldwateresque election for the GOP.
I wonder if the Council for National Policy and other McCainCon operatives will watch McCain fall with modesty and grace.
- via mal contends
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