As I watched Señor McCain resurrect his candidacy from the bowels of death, I anticipated that his people would waging a calculated effort to midlead, misdirect and obfuscate any and all truths that might reveal his actual point of residence on the political spectrum. I had no idea they’d be so successful! McCain is actually a left-of-center charlatan; Hillary Clinton is now the most conservative choice left standing.

I simply want to puke when McCain says he’s a conservative because I know that many voters are content to remain so barely informed that they will believe him.

Now, I have proof. Thanks to the Center for Immigration Studies, I can show exactly how badly Republicans have chosen:

[1] Poll: Voters Unaware of Candidates’ Immigration Positions

Of McCain voters, 35 percent mistakenly thought he favored enforcement that would cause illegals to return home, another 10 percent thought he wanted mass deportations, and 21 percent didn’t know his position.

Doing even a half-decent job on the math here scares me greatly. More than half of those who voted for McCain were under the misapprehension that he’s actually in favor of enforcing all of our immigration laws and would do what is right by Americans before he accommodates aliens. Now, I can understand that there would naturally be a few, or maybe even a bit more than a few, Republican ignoramuses who might not pay requisite attention to a candidate’s true positions on a critical issue or two and cast a ballot in ignorance. But a majority?!!! Please say it isn’t so!

The article goes on to point out that:

Pro-enforcement voters have a greater intensity of views than supporters of legalization. Among Republicans, almost nine out ten who favored causing illegals to return home said they strongly supported that view; on the other hand, fewer than half of Republicans who backed legalization strongly supported that view.

Put the two poll factoids together and you have the saddest commentary about the conservative side of our electorate I’ve ever seen. Not only did more than half of Republican primary voters not know that McCain is on the opposite side of the immigration issue from their desires, 90% of those ignorant to the discrepancy considered their enforcement desires to be very important to the sort of governing they expect to see going forward. These are the sorts of people who would hire a well-known neighborhood child molester to baby sit their kids. I’m not kidding. There could be posters with pictures of the sicko plastered throughout the neighborhood and they’d still invite the offender in the door because he doesn’t seem all that dangerous in person.

Considering the fact that McCain has built his presumptive nomination upon not much more than lies, deceit and misdirection, what might we expect from this venal old sack of excrement if he’s elected? Honesty? The truth? Really? I’ve said all along that this “straight-talking” shifty bastard is morally unfit to even mow my lawn. I would not let my child be in his presence for a nanosecond for fear that his ideology might actually stem from some contagious viral condition. Sometimes it seems to me that only a brain-resident virus could cause otherwise careful adults to engage in such risky behavior at the polls as casting a vote for John McCain.

Those of truly conservative mind who voted for John McCain while fully aware of his stands can only be deemed pathologically irrational. There simply is no rational thought process that might lead any stewardship-minded person to support a candidate who promises change that will destroy ancient cultural foundations and threads of thought that created the very brand of civilization, the only brand of civilization, that has given the world more bounty and good than any other brand that came before it.

McCain represents proof that, both outside and inside conservatism, America is succumbing to a very weird and dangerous sort of imposed tolerance. Framing it by example, I’ll offer this: On one hand, we teach our children to look both ways before crossing the street because it makes sense in keeping them safe. We teach them to be wary of strangers for the same reason. We bust our asses to assure that they are properly affected toward morally straight and intellectually strong paths, knowing that there are good and bad things in this world that require their careful discernment if our human lineage is to be carried forward. We take great care in imbuing in our next generations an awareness of the essential truth that that carrying our lineage forward is the Godly point of our being here in the first place.

Yet many of us don’t extend such care-centered thought process to the political decisions we make. We carelessly give support to would-be leaders, like John McCain, who would set ancestry and heritage asunder while insisting that making a place in our society for the undifferentiated everyman is somehow the conservative thing to do. I had hoped that deep down, conservatives in America would know better. Needless to say, I’m very disappointed.

It appears we are about to sit idly by and let government tinker with the very basis of our civilization out of some irrational and overly-optimistic faith in the goodness and infinite compatibility of all men, all cultures and all races. Many of us simply buy into the awful and decrepit notion that America is so much a “nation of immigrants” that selectivity and discernment between peoples must not be allowed. Politically corrected, we march in lock step toward our own dissolution as a heritage while ignorant to the fact that there is no basis for any of this.

Sadly, electing a president like John McCain is the logical next step in our lemming-like race to the cliffs.

[2] [3] American Kernel, [4] ancestors, [5] Conservatism, [6] Culture, [7] elections, [8] Immigration, [9] immigration reform, [10] John McCain, [11] straight talk, [12] Stupidity, [13] tradition

1 Comment To "The Sad Truth About McCain’s Primary Voters: Idiots!"

#1 Comment By LomaAlta On April 10, 2008 @ 12:57 am