A Democrat for McCain
September 7th, 2008 at 09:39am Mark Noonan
Which Democrat? Barry Warsch. Who’s he? Well:
Lifelong Democrat; Former president, Broward County, Florida Young Democrats; Former member, Broward County, Florida Democratic Executive Committee; Former city commissioner, City of Cooper City, Florida. Graduate of THE University of Florida. Practicing attorney in Miami. Member of The Florida Bar. Southernmost member of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association. Broward County Young Democrats’ Trailblazer of the Year, 1994. Broward County Young Democrats’ Young Democrat of the Year, 1996. Chabad of Southwest Broward Man of the Year, 1995. Ever hopeful Dolphin Season ticket holder, 20+ years. NEVER VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN. NEVER. EVER.
What does he think?
I really like the way Palin drives the people I dislike to distraction.
Andrew Sullivan on the Palin selection:
“John McCain has demonstrated with this insane decision that he is unfit to be president of the United States. This was an act of near-criminal negligence. If he can behave this recklessly and impulsively with this decision, the idea of allowing him to become president of the United States is only a smidgen less terrifying than thinking of Palin in that position.”
This post has it all - - the Stalinistic psychological misdiagnosis of political opposition (”insane”, “recklessly”, “impulsively”), the attempted criminalization of political disagreement (”an act of near-criminal negligence”), and the paranoid hyperbole (”terrifying”).
Can you imagine how the Obamacans will freak when McCain/Palin wins, and they do a real steady, competent, level headed, moderate, non partisan job? You know, everything Obama promised until he wrapped up the nomination.
I think we’ve all had just about enough of the endless rancor - I do continue to blame the left for it, but assigning blame doesn’t get rid of the issue. Essentially, I’m willing to meet liberalism half way on a lot of issues, if they are willing to do so with the right. Some issues are intractable and we’ll just have to fight it out and see who wins, but there is room for compromise which doesn’t surrender core principles of either liberalism or conservatism.
Now, while a lot of liberals out there might find this mere partisanship on my part, the plain fact of the matter is that we are far more likely to get compromise with McCain/Palin than we are with Obama/Biden. Obama talks a good game, but in the end he’s an ultra liberal who hasn’t dared to compromise an iota on liberal ideas - we won’t get from Obama a willingness to, say, grant partial privatization in return for higher payroll taxes to fund social security for an additional decade or two; liberal ideology says “no retreat” on SS privatization, and Obama has given no indication that he’ll defy his base…McCain, on the other hand, has already defied his base at times and I can’t imagine a President McCain refusing partial privatization simply because the other side is insistent upon modest payroll tax increases.
To expand on my example for illustrative purposes, getting to any sort of privatization is key to our program, because we are convinced that once people see how superior it is, they will demand more and more of it…as for liberals, they are convinced that privatization is too risky, and in order to allay their concerns, they are getting more money into the SS system, and if their views are correct, privatization will fail and people will turn firmly back to the current SS system. This is actually a win/win for liberalism - if privatization works, they can claim partial credit for it, if it fails they can lay all the blame on the GOP…all it takes for this happy event is a willingness on the part of Democrats to concede a small point and allow partial privatization. On and on it will go with issue after issue, if we have people on both sides willing to give. McCain will, Obama won’t - or, more accurately, can’t; he can’t because he lacks the imagination and the raw courage it takes to defy ideological purists.
We have a stunning opportunity this fall to really do a good turn for our nation - by putting in to the Executive the skill, courage and flexibility - grounded in Reaganite principles - necessary to break the logjam and isolate the hardheaded people left and right (though its easier to dispense with the kook right, as its much smaller than the kook left). As long time readers will know, a primary goal of mine has been to isolate the far left and exclude them from the corridors of American power - I’ll never agree with liberalism’s basic premises, but I can work with liberals who have cut themselves loose from the kook left, as conservatism cut itself loose from the kook right about 40 years ago (with periodic purges since then as kook righties have slipped into the conservative movement). We’ll see how far this sentiment goes - though there are some indicators that it is large, and growing rapidly.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats, General Government, Kook Left, Political Endorsements, Republicans
23 Comments
1. Timestar | September 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
We all think Palin is a nice lady, but where is McCain? He gives a dull uninspiring acceptance speech watched by his largest audience ever and now it looks like Palin is wearing the pantsuit on this ticket.
2. Steamroller | September 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Word on the street has Palin and McCain so tight on the campaign trail if Palin stops short McCain will get his head stuck half way up her ass.
3. Steamroller | September 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Biden is on Meet the Press. Will Palin be on there next week or will she keep interviews limited to Fox?
4. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Steamroller,
What street do you live on? McCain has a 4 point edge now and IF Palin were on the talk show circuit this week, it would be an 8 point edge on Monday.
Face it liberals, Palin connects with the average American far better than Obama ever hoped to, and the reason is because she IS an average red blooded, God fearing, family oriented American.
Obama can only claim that he is.
Obama talks the talk. Palin walks the walk.
5. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
A Democratic strategist is saying right now on MSNBC that they need to start talking about McCain and not Palin. She is above your pay grade fellas and you’ll be receiving the memo soon.
You don’t want Palin on the talk shows this week. Don’t look at gift horse in the mouth.
6. LiberalNitemare | September 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Im not opposed to a little compromise in order to get things moving in Washington. Im just realistic in my expectations. McCain will have his work cut out for him.
As shown by the current drilling situation, the current Democratic leadership would rather do nothing, then compromise on anything. And for the most part, the lib-ocrats out there seem perfectly happy with that arrangement.
7. kmg | September 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Interesting guy. Warsch claims to have been a Hillary supporter. His anti-Obama website has only been up since August 23 and no one submitted any comments until yesterday. Since then there have been 42 comments. Warsch supported McCain before Palin was chosen. He promulgates the lie that Obama is/was a Muslim. This looks an awful lot like astroturf.
8. CanadianObserver | September 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am
IF Palin were on the talk show circuit this week, it would be an 8 point edge on Monday.
4. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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Since that ain’t gonna happen, neocon, we’ll just have to take your word for it.
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You don’t want Palin on the talk shows this week.
5. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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You have to be joking, neocon.
We all want to see her without a written speech prepared by someone else. We want to see her unscripted.
9. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 11:13 am
CO,
You will and you won’t like it. Palin has been there, done that and she will continue to connect more and more with Americans every time she speaks. Your best strategy is to ignore her and hope she stays home with her family.
That wont happen and you will lose. By the way, Axlerod is on Fox news Sunday and he is tripping all over himself. I think he has mentioned Bush a dozen times.
10. kimberly4victory | September 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
How about this life-long Democrat?
I have given my loyalty to the Democratic Party for decades. My party, which is comprised primarily of women, has not put a woman on a presidential ticket for 24 years. My party refused to nominate my candidate, Hillary Clinton, for president or vice president, even though she received more votes than any other candidate in history. My party stood silently by as Hillary Clinton was eviscerated by the mainstream media. My party was mute while the main stream media repeatedly called Clinton a bitch and symbolically called me and every other woman in this country a bitch. My party was disturbingly silent when the main stream media commented on Hillary’s body or the shrillness of her voice, reminding me and every other woman the fundamental disrespect we endure on a daily basis. My party’s candidate was mute when Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger openly mocked Senator Clinton from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ. My party’s candidate was silent when the rapper Ludicrous released a new song calling Hillary a bitch. My party and it’s candidate gave their tacit approval for the attacks on Senator Hillary Clinton and consequently women in general.
I have a choice. I can vote for my party and it’s candidates which have demonstrated a blatant disrespect for women and a fundamental lack of integrity or I can vote for the Republican ticket which has heard our concerns and put a woman on the ticket but with whom I fundamentally don’t agree on most issues. If Democratic women wait for the perfect woman to come along, we will never elect a woman. We have to seize opportunity where it presents itself. Besides, the Democratic Party is no longer my home. I have no home, but this election I will make my bed somewhere else.
http://www.lynettelong.com/
11. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Not since Reagan has a politician connected so well with the electorate. Palin is middle class America and will bring those values to the WH. That is what Americans want. Not some Ivy League educated, inexperienced, two memoir, do nothing, lawyer.
Just saying.
12. FmrMarine | September 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Neo
>>>Stalinistic psychological misdiagnosis of political opposition (”insane”, “recklessly”, “impulsively”), the attempted criminalization of political disagreement (”an act of near-criminal negligence”), and the paranoid hyperbole (”terrifying”).>>>
This pretty well sums up todays democrat party.
It used to be THE party of the KKK, Nation of islam, black panthers, and weather underground
It is now run by marxist kooks with che posters.
13. kimberly4victory | September 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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14. Jeremiah | September 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
One thing that the left will never compromise on is the giant pork barrel spenders on healthcare, welfare, “global-warming”, big tobacco etc, etc, etc.
This all translates into the worst depression in U.S. history.
15. kimberly4victory | September 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Another Obama gaffe … this morning????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQK_EhDhZQ
16. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Kimberly,
WOW. Just WOW. His handlers better get a hold of him and soon.
17. kmg | September 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Kimberly,
How many of those sites are run by one person talking to themselves? I personally don’t buy the thought that this massive swarm of Democrats are going to throw away all of their beliefs out of spite. There are some shallow ones out there, but not enough to make a difference.
18. neocon | September 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
kmg,
Keep hoping kmg. Keep hoping that Obamas fortunes are going to change. Cause he’s going to need it.
That’s what his hope and change are these days.
19. FactCheck | September 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I do continue to blame the left for it
Well of course you do. You’re good at maintaining willful blindness.
Also, your stated openness to compromise is, in the nicest possible phrasing, utterly disingenuous. You should stop peddling lies.
20. M Proof | September 7th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Deleted - slanders; and rather tired, old slanders, at that. Come on, lefties, if you’re going to clutter up the blogs with slanders, at least get some new ones. We’re up to 69 slanders launched against Governor Palin, and I’d like see if we can double that by October…
21. M Proof | September 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Deleted - slander.
22. M Proof | September 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
It really seems like this candidate is more emotion than strategy. Palin is such an unfit pick. If she were to win I ask what will it do for women candidates in the long run?
What if all the progress and substance created through Hillary Clinton’s campaign is sacrificed through Palin’s ineptitude.
She is obviously no Hillary Clinton by any standard of measure. It has less to do with her experience and more to do with exemplified competency. I for one believe Hillary would have made a wonderful President. She will some day if someone like Palin doesn’t get in there and make a mockery of a woman in the position.
Where Hilary is a bright, strategic, substance based candidate with great middle American values. Well Palin not so much. Palin would be the first woman to hold the second most powerful role in the world. The first Women President if McCain should have to step down or not live through the term.
The first will leave an imprint on American minds and live on for the centuries to come. Of course many of us like the idea of a woman president but right now we need a good president with no strings attached.
Are we really ready to settle for this subpar example, when the national lively hood is at stake? We sacrifice the war to win the battle if we do.
Despite the years that separate their play, is image based Anna Kournikova really a good replacement for substance based Billy Jean King? How would it have effected Tennis should they be switched out for one another?
Well we will never know but may soon find out if image can replace substance. Just like Anna’s agents, the GOP says, who cares about her diluted play, the people will connect with Palin’s image. I guess the GOP is for the unfair tokenism that comes along with Affirmative Action afterall.
Should our daughters see Palin’s life as a model for successful women? I wish Mr. McCain asked me, I know many Republican and Democratic candidates that would have been an enormous success as a first woman Vice President or President. This list begins with Hillary Clinton.
It’s amazing how a few Clinton supporters have allowed the GOP to pacify their desire for a great woman candidate with this ridiculous choice. This is despite the plethora of powerful and validated female options out there. The GOP truly insults the intelligence of Women voters.
Is it progress for our daughters to be emotionally strategic like Palin? Will Palin’s young daughter be a better role model than Chelsea??? With the democrats in office, a fitting example of a woman in power would definitely be President, not Vice President in 2012. With a little patience women will make history in the right way.
23. phnx | September 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Mproof what’s your point? Hillary is not in contention this year. If you really want Hillary to have a shot in 2012 you will hold your nose and vote for McCain & Palin.