[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]All I need to hear from is one more party, Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City), and then I will know who to vote for in Tuesday’s primary.
The redoubtable Sen. Ridley-Thomas is expected to say, any hour now, “Despite the fact he is not a black man or a white woman, and even though he isn’t the kind of feminist I became by masculinely tacking on my wife’s name to mine, I endorse John McCain for the Republican Presidential nomination.”
Beware of Insincerity
Then the circle of suspicion will be complete.
With their left thumb and forefinger pinching their noses, America’s main three monuments to munificent moderation, the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Los
Angeles Times, this morning all are recommending that Republicans hand over the nomination to Mr. McCain.
Of Dems and Barking Dogs
To determine their degree of insincerity, all you have to know is that if a dog and a Republican were drowning and only one could be rescued, when the survivor reached shore, he would bark, not say “Thank you.”
Over the past 15 years, “news” stories in all three newspapers routinely denigrate conservatives/Republicans on a daily, not occasional, basis. When someone who routinely loathes you, suddenly froths at the gills with drooling compliments — as The New York Times did in endorsing Mr. McCain last week — check your wallet, your watch and your sox. One, at least, will be missing.
If only sincere liberals were permitted to live on earth, there would be no need to write stories on overpopulation.
When a specific Republican is repeatedly touted by three of the most liberal newspapers in America — who regard President Bush as a greater threat to world peace than the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah — reader beware.
“GOP Could Have Its Unifier,” the Los Angeles Times cheered on Page 1 this morning in the wake of Mr. McCain’s convincing win last night in Florida. Memory tells me this is the first ostensibly favorable Republican headline on Page 1 since the spring day in 1964 when the Times reported, “Goldwater’s Strength Feared by LBJ and Democrats.”
These Are Not Good Wishes
It is not that the Times, the Post and The Times, heaven forbid, wish any Republicans, least of all Mr. McCain, well. He is a maverick Republican. He fits the desired liberal profile of a Republican politician: A chronic dissembler who roams all over the ideological landscape. If Mr. McCain were a Democrat rebel, he would be scorned as a divider rather than a unifier.
Mr. McCain no more resembles the face of the Republican Party than his traveling companion, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a sensible man, represents the mug of the Democrat Party.
Doesn’t anyone else find it odd that Mr. Lieberman has been traveling the country for weeks now, spiritedly campaigning for his pal Mr. McCain, who is from the Other Party?
A Damaged McCain
Fascinating speculation has emerged that the boys are trying out a bizarre plan.
For months they have been playing with the idea of teaming up in November, with Mr. Lieberman running for Vice President on the McCain ticket. Unprecedented, as far as I can tell.
To enhance the tantalization factor, Mr. McCain, physically battered and mentally skewered by his 5 1/2 years as a POW, turns an old 72 in August. But with Joe Lieberman in the Vice President’s chair, I would not worry.