McCain Wouldn't Know Conservatism If...

...it bit him on the ass.

This just doesn't square.

G.O.P. Candidates Lay Into Democrats, Not One Another - New York Times

“The Republican Party — and conservatism generally — are a philosophy of strength,” he said. “Military strength, economic strength, personal strength and family strength.”

-Senator John "I never met an amnesty I didn't love" McCain

How could a person with any scruples whatsoever fish for votes with such soaring language when what he says runs so contrary to his grandest desire as a politician: giving amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens and setting off an unprecedented chain migration?

Please bear with me as I parse this quote and expound on the double meanings:

1. "Conservatism is a philosophy of strength," but I believe our nation is weak and needs help from millions of indentured servants.
   
2. "Conservatism is a philosophy of military strength," but let's disregard the fact that America's political-philospher founders warned against submitting to or leveraging into too strong influences and alliances with foreign powers.
   
3. "Conservatism is a philosophy of economic strength," as long as the government is made stronger than the people through control of people's purse strings.
   
4. "Conservatism is a philosophy of personal strength," as long as people don't display it in the form of speech too close to an election.
   
5. "Conservatism is a philosophy of family strength," and we can't get enough of those strong Mexican families and we can't be deterred by mere citizens who because they want to keep their heritage will stand in the way .

It seems like every day Senator McAmnesty just keeps giving this Conservatives like me more reasons to despise him. Even if I didn't believe with all my heart and soul that the man truly wants to sell my child's future to the highest big-business bidder via amnesty, there's always his McCain-Feingold subversion of the First Amendment, his opposing tax cuts that work and his support for the gay agenda.

But even if none of those things were the case I'd still oppose him with all my being; my political gut and human instinct tell me that he is an evil person. When I see or hear him speak, it sets off alarms within me that have never been wrong in the 27 years I've been involved in political campaigns. It took an awful lot of working for candidates who set off my "creep-o-meter" before I started paying attention to my senses. The lesson has sunk in: I won't ever again vote for someone for whom I have such a visceral distrust.

The bottom line: I loathe John McCain and wouldn't vote for him if satan himself were on the other side - how would I choose between two equal evils?

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