Posted by
Jabra on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:48:30 PM
I know Medved has endorsed McCain and he is fighting a to-the-death battle for McCain but he has just said something on his radio show that shows McCain is not to be supported. Medved's argument is that McCain stood for all the things that conservatives fought against under Bush namely the immigration act, support for government muzzling free speech using McCain-Feingold and other initiatives that Bush either supported or signed on.
To be honest, as a libertarian conservative, I am sick of all these liberals in conservative clothing who drop sound principles on a political whim. I am sick of enthusiastic campaign rhetoric for limited government, free markets, low taxes to be shocked by the opposite. I loved Reagan, loved his writings and speeches but was appalled by the fact that his works were for the most part contrary to his preaching. G. W. Bush ran for all the same things to later turn around and espouse protectionism, big government, deficits, increased government spending, etc. I respect that he stood firm on taxes but the lower taxes benefited those with capital and did very little for the rest of the population. Today, with the sun setting on his presidency, we are worse off fiscally than we were when he took over, with a 400 billion dollars deficit and 10 trillion in debt and increased government bureaucracy whether in education, health care or defense and homeland security.
Medved's silly argument that McCain will support everything Bush did gives me no comfort. I'd rather have the whole conservative movement in the wilderness for 8 or 12 years until we find our soul again, than get more of the sae disappointments.