Powerline speaks!

On March 26 Sen. McCain gave a major address on foreign policy in which he sounded more like John Kerry than a Republican. Powerline, usually on top of every development in the campaign, maintained total silence on the speech until, on Sunday, March 30, a full four days after the speech, Scott of Powerline posted something on it. He is not a happy camper. He says that the speech “forcefully reminds me why Senator McCain was not at the top of my list of acceptable Republican presidential candidates.” Notice, however, that the speech does not lead Scott to remove McCain from his list of acceptable candidates. As I said last week, Powerline would adjust.

However, John of Powerline probably won’t have to adjust at all, given that on the day McCain clinched the GOP nomination, he called McCain “a great man.”

I wonder how anyone could describe as “great” a man who not only tried to push open borders on America by means of one of the messiest, most dishonest, most irresponsible bills ever proposed in the U.S. Congress, but tried to force it through without even having a debate. Here is VFR’s item on this from May 22, 2007:

Want a president who is “against politics”? McCain is the man for you

If there is anyone who is not already long convinced that John McCain is unsuited to be president of the United States, this ought to settle the question. Explaining why he and other proponents of the immigration bill were seeking to rush it through the Senate without committee hearings and without a real debate, he said at a May 17 press conference:

“We all know this issue can be caught up in extracurricular politics unless we move forward as quickly as possible.”

Extracurricular politics?

What he means, of course, is politics. You know, that funny process by which a self-governing people debates and decides on the laws under which it will live.

McCain wants to abolish politics, so that the elite who know what’s best for us can administer our society and our lives for us.

Of course, we already knew all that about McCain. What is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, but a major step toward turning America into a Europe-type country where democratic elections are a mere formality directed by the state, and unaccountable bureaucratic elites are the real rulers?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 30, 2008 06:24 PM | Send