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February 29th, 2008 at 9:00 am

He’s Sacrificing Conservatives for Independents

in: Education, John McCain, Opinion, Presidential Candidates

This week, John McCain did something risky. He denounced Bill Cunningham’s statements about Obama to buddy up to Independent and Moderates. The Moderates will stay if he don’t pander to them and the Independents are likely to split if he doesn’t. However, by pandering to them, the Conservatives that were starting to get on board with McCain after the New York Times sliming, are starting to think that he doesn’t care about us or what we stand for.

Independents are fickle. They always have been because they are indecisive people. These are the people who stand in line at Starbucks and don’t know if they want a Latte or a Cappuccino, caf or decaf, these are the people who stand in line at MacDonald’s and have known the menu since they were 6 years old but still can’t figure out what they want inside of 10 minutes (or at least it seems). They are fence sitters. Non-committal idiots that are worse than the Politically Apathetic American Lemmings, they are the Politically Apathetic American Ostriches. They bury their heads in the sand until they vote and then they spend 10 minutes looking at the names on the ballot saying to themselves mentally, “Oh I don’t know…”. So why pander?

McCain thinks that because he is a so-called maverick, he’s going to gain the Independent vote because he’s not beholden to anyone - especially his own Party. Problem, Conservatives expect him to hold true to his Party and to us. Because if he don’t, he’ll have a hard time in his only 4 years in office.

McCain is 71 years old. This is his last shot. And if anyone thinks that he’ll serve more than 4 years they’ve got another thing coming. He’s 4 and out whether the nation elects as Republican in 2012 or not. By then he will be 75 years old and by the end of that term he’ll be pushing 80. He can’t afford at this point to abandon Conservatives. Independents will break the way they break. The lefties are holding true to their base, why isn’t McCain?

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