Victor Davis Hanson on those few, sad conservatives who have decided to pander to The One in hopes of getting some crumbs from the MSM table in return:
…Obama, as I have said ad nauseam, has brilliantly prepped the battlefield to such a degree that a Farrakhan endorsement or surrogates calling Palin a quasi-Nazi or a bimbo, or smearing McCain as near senile is irrelevant; yet one screamer in a crowd of tens of thousands is proof of McCain’s and Palin’s racism and hatred.
Again, most conservatives know this paradox, but for some, being outraged as the conservative voice of reason, at McCain’s supposed low road ensures a CNN spot, or some future rehabilitation during the expected Obama regnum of the next eight years. I think should I write a column praising Obama’s wit, taste in books, and metrosexuality I would be dubbed principled rather than cynical, ‘even-handed’ rather than self-serving, and a maverick rather than toadish.
Yet for a self-acclaimed conservative to vote Obama would mean that higher taxes, larger government, more entitlements, more of a UN-centered foreign policy, dialogue with an Iran, less coal,oil, and nuclear energy production at home, more “oppression” studies and “reparations”, leftish Supreme Court judges, open borders (I could go on) were the truly conservative positions, or perhaps suddenly truly the ‘right’ positions.
And as far as ethics goes, in fact, a cursory review of the past Obama campaigns would reveal a ruthlessness never seen in any of McCain’s efforts. Obama’s record is far more left than McCain’s is far right. Obama the healer has proven to be the most partisan in the Senate, McCain one of the most bipartisan.
But to believe that truth would be–if we remember that scene in Tolkien’s Two Towers–to trust the grating harsh voice of Gandalf detailing the dangers of Saruman rather than the mellifluous charm of the latter who in soothing tones outlines his own victimhood.
It is all of them against us – we have McCain, Palin and Joe and Jane Average – they have Obama and all of the elites, including a selection of the Manhattan and DC conservative elite. And just like now everyone is claiming credit for the surge, now that its worked, so will all of these people jump back on our side and say they were always with us, if McCain pulls out the win…or if, after four disasterous years of Obama, Palin wins the White House for the GOP and conservatism.
I, too, won’t pander – though I’m not nearly as important in the world as people like Hanson. Just a little blogger, though I do have a mind for a lot of fun and a one in a million shot for 2010. President Bush has been a great President; John McCain will make a great President – so I raise my banner and so I battle on in confidence of victory.
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