{"id":490,"date":"2013-03-15T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/15\/mccain-and-mitt-are-not-true-conservatives"},"modified":"2013-03-15T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:34:00","slug":"mccain-and-mitt-are-not-true-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"McCain and Mitt are not \u2018true conservatives\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s time has run out, as blogger\/columnist Paul Burka notes here.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perry-cpac-candidate-i-am-no-more<\/a><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m wondering about his assertion at the CPAC meeting that the Republican Party didn\u2019t nominate two \u201ctrue conservative\u201d candidates in 2008 and 2012. Had John McCain (2008) and Mitt Romney (2012) been \u201ctrue conservatives,\u201d one of them would have been elected president, Perry suggested.<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t Romney describe himself as a \u201cseverely conservative\u201d governor of Massachusetts? And didn\u2019t McCain insist repeatedly four years earlier that he\u2019s always been staunchly pro-life on the issue of abortion and has been consistently conservative on other social issues?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think their nominees\u2019 conservative credentials were the problem. The quality of their respective campaigns hurt them both badly.<\/p>\n

When the financial crisis slammed into the nation\u2019s economic infrastructure in 2008, McCain\u2019s response was to suspend his campaign at a critical moment, return to Washington in search of answers, only to deliver nothing in the way of a solution.<\/p>\n

And Romney\u2019s campaign? Oh my. Let me count the stumbles: the ghastly debate performances with his GOP foes, such as when he offered to bet Perry $10,000 on something; his \u201cself-deportation\u201d answer to solving the illegal immigration problem; the infamous 47-percent remarks at a fundraiser in Florida. I\u2019ll stop there.<\/p>\n

What the Texas governor and other conservatives are saying at their conference essentially is that they hate compromise. They don\u2019t want to work with moderates within their own party, let alone with those who represent the other party<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They want public policy crafted on their terms, ignoring the nation\u2019s immense racial, moral, social and economic diversity.<\/p>\n

I would suggest that John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of who are fine men, were conservative enough. They just didn\u2019t know how to campaign for the presidency of a changing nation.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s time has run out, as blogger\/columnist Paul Burka notes here. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perry-cpac-candidate-i-am-no-more But I\u2019m wondering about his assertion at the CPAC meeting that the Republican Party didn\u2019t nominate two \u201ctrue conservative\u201d candidates in 2008 and 2012. Had John McCain (2008) and Mitt Romney (2012) been \u201ctrue conservatives,\u201d one of them would have … Continue reading McCain and Mitt are not \u2018true conservatives\u2019?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}