Tim Sumner

John McCain, Mitt Romney, Political wind

McCain would lose yet Romney would change Washington

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Whether the McCain campaign started the whisper campaign that “nobody likes Romney” is irrelevant; they were surely thrilled when the mainstream media ran with it. Yet the old guard will ensure that John McCain never reaches the Oval Office.

Mitt Romney would turn political Washington on its head, the doors to power would get slammed in the faces of perhaps thousands of long-entrenched deal makers and lobbyists.

That is why so many moderates Republicans, a few conservatives, and a stream of liberal pundits are jumping on John McCain’s bandwagon. McCain cannot win, they know it, and they will merely have to go on dealing with him as one of 100 Senators; the keys to the kingdom will remain in their hands.

With McCain as the GOP nominee, the old guard will feed the mainstream media just enough damaging information to keep him from moving up the street. It will be untraceable to the Obama or Clinton campaigns (for it will not come from them) and the media will lap it up.

Yet if John McCain flies off the handle and angrily goes after the old guard himself, the public will finally see what insiders have seen for more than two decades. The real John McCain is vindictive, condescending, confrontational, politically disloyal, and rude.

Swing voters will get turned off, the far-left would never vote for him, liberals already have Obama or Clinton, and conservative voters were already planning to stay home in November.

Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will become the next President of the United States yet the status quo will be maintained, either way. The old lions (picture a proud Grandpa Ted) will wheel Barack around the Washington Mall in a Presidential baby stroller and the Clintons come politically pre-packed, like just off a Wal Mart shelf.

If you really, truly want change in Washington, then vote for Mitt Romney in your primary and in November. It is time to show the old guard the door and ensure that they close it on their way out.

John McCain, Mark Levin

Rally for Romney: Mark Levin

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Conservatives need to act now, before it is too late.

Mark Levin, a former senior Reagan Justice Department official, nationally syndicated radio-talk-show host, and author, wrote this today, in the National Review Online:

Let’s get the largely unspoken part of this out the way first. McCain is an intemperate, stubborn individual, much like Hillary Clinton. These are not good qualities to have in a president. As I watched him last night, I could see his personal contempt for Mitt Romney roiling under the surface. And why? Because Romney ran campaign ads that challenged McCain’s record? Is this the first campaign in which an opponent has run ads questioning another candidate’s record? That’s par for the course. To the best of my knowledge, Romney’s ads have not been personal. He has not even mentioned the Keating-Five to counter McCain’s cheap shots. But the same cannot be said of McCain’s comments about Romney.

Last night McCain, who is the putative frontrunner, resorted to a barrage of personal assaults on Romney that reflect more on the man making them than the target of the attacks. McCain now has a habit of describing Romney as a “manager for profit” and someone who has “laid-off” people, implying that Romney is both unpatriotic and uncaring. Moreover, he complains that Romney is using his “millions” or “fortune” to underwrite his campaign. This is a crass appeal to class warfare. McCain is extremely wealthy through marriage. Romney has never denigrated McCain for his wealth or the manner in which he acquired it. Evidently Romney’s character doesn’t let him to cross certain boundaries of decorum and decency, but McCain’s does. And what of managing for profit? When did free enterprise become evil? This is liberal pablum which, once again, could have been uttered by Hillary Clinton.

And there is the open secret of McCain losing control of his temper and behaving in a highly inappropriate fashion with prominent Republicans, including Thad Cochran, John Cornyn, Strom Thurmond, Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Smith, and a list of others. Does anyone honestly believe that the Clintons or the Democrat party would give McCain a pass on this kind of behavior?

As for McCain “the straight-talker,” how can anyone explain his abrupt about-face on two of his signature issues: immigration and tax cuts? As everyone knows, McCain led the battle not once but twice against the border-security-first approach to illegal immigration as co-author of the McCain-Kennedy bill. He disparaged the motives of the millions of people who objected to his legislation. He fought all amendments that would limit the general amnesty provisions of the bill. This controversy raged for weeks. Only now he says he’s gotten the message. Yet, when asked last night if he would sign the McCain-Kennedy bill as president, he dissembles, arguing that it’s a hypothetical question. Last Sunday on Meet the Press, he said he would sign the bill. There’s nothing straight about this talk. Now, I understand that politicians tap dance during the course of a campaign, but this was a defining moment for McCain. And another defining moment was his very public opposition to the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. He was the media’s favorite Republican in opposition to Bush. At the time his primary reason for opposing the cuts was because they favored the rich (and, by the way, they did not). Now he says he opposed them because they weren’t accompanied by spending cuts. That’s simply not correct… READ THE REST