This can’t be giving him the warm fuzzies:
Arizona Republican voters don’t see Senator John McCain having much trouble winning the GOP Senate Primary next year, but 50% believe he has lost touch with his party’s base. Conservatives are even more critical of the longtime incumbent.
While McCain’s prospective GOP primary challenger – Minute Man Chris Simcox – has a great deal of name-recognition problems, the fact that half of GOP voters in Arizona are viewing McCain as out of touch indicates that Simcox, and others, have an opportunity to topple McCain in the primary.
I backed McCain against Obama in 2008 primarily because McCain would fight to win the War on Terrorism and, also, had a chance at re-forging our national unity, so badly shaken by opportunistic Democrats and anti-American leftists. While Obama has made some good moves in the national security area, I’m still greatly concerned by other decisions and worry, mostly, that Obama lacks the plain grit necessary to see us through hard times on the battlefield. Time will tell on that – Truman eventually showed he had some guts when it came to confronting America’s enemies, maybe Obama will, too. All in all, I still believe my vote in November was the correct one – McCain could not have made our economic mess any worse than Obama has, and McCain would have been rock solid on the war. Be that as it may, McCain has never been my favorite Republican.
McCain’s fundamental problem – and he shares it with many other GOPers – is that he fails to realize that the other side is not motivated by patriotism and a desire to put country ahead of party. Democrat leaders are political animals through and through and view everything through the prism of whether or not it will help them get elected/re-elected. If doing good by the country helps them get elected, then so much better for America…but Democrat leaders will do things absolutely destructive to America if they perceive it as helping advance themselves in power. This has been true as far back as the Wilson Administration in which the war effort in World War One was, as far as possible, impounded to the benefit of Democrats and followed through with Democrats sabotaging investigations into communist infiltration of Democrat-led government, turning defeatist in Vietnam after leading us into that quagmire, undercutting Reagan in his attempts to undo the USSR, treating terrorism as a crime rather than an act of war, deciding that defeating Bush and the GOP trumped defeating those who carried out 9/11…
Republicans must understand that Democrats will only come along if they think it advantages their side – if we can cast a GOP program in such terms that it makes Democrats think it helps them – or harms them greatly to oppose it – then we can get Democrat support…but when push comes to shove, it must be battle day in and day out until such time as Democrat leaders change and become patriots first, Democrats second. McCain is in trouble because he has failed, thus far, to learn this lesson – if he learns it swiftly, he’ll be easily re-nominated and re-elected. If he doesn’t, then at the best he’ll have a bruising primary fight followed by a desperate campaign to save his seat.
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