Will McCain Make a Mission to MARs?
John McCain may have just let slip his last best chance to be president of the United States.
When he flew back to Washington to address the banking crisis, McCain could have seized the hottest issue in America by taking the side of his countrymen who were enraged by the Paulson Plan to bail out a power elite whose greed and stupidity had caused a financial disaster unequaled since the Crash of ‘29.
But rather than denounce the Bush-Paulson-Pelosi-Barney Frank plan as a rip-off of taxpayers, lacerate Obama and Co. for bedding down with the kleptocrats of Fannie Mae, and advancing his own McCain plan, McCain played the establishment man. He sought modest concessions for the Republican view, urged swift passage and left town.
Then the House, in an astounding act of defiance, voted to kill the bill, triggering a trillion-dollar run on Wall Street.
Working with Democrats rather than battling the establishment has ever been McCain’s way. And, undeniably, his deserved reputation for bipartisanship helped him to get where he is.
He campaigns proudly on his capacity to work with liberals and has McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman and McCain-Kennedy to prove it. But as George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford discovered, the politics of compromise and consensus does not always produce the best result.
The tax hike of 1990 may have destroyed Bush I’s presidency, and Ford’s choice of John Paul Stevens for the Supreme Court, who was approved unanimously, helped propel the Ronald Reagan challenge.
Philosophically and culturally, we are a divided people. Across the spectrum there are us-versus-them folks who see politics as a zero-sum game between Middle America and a global elite. Below the upper-income brackets and along the center-right are the folks the late columnist Sam Francis, citing sociologist Donald Warren’s 1976 study, called Middle American Radicals.
Nixon brought the “MARs” to national attention when, as David Broder then wrote, the “breaking of the president” was underway in October 1969. Nixon went on television and called for the Great Silent Majority to stand with him against antiwar demonstrators and rioters in the streets, and for “peace with honor” in Vietnam.
When TV anchors trashed Nixon’s speech, he unleashed Spiro Agnew on the establishment media.
No White House had ever before attacked the networks or national press for ideological and political bias.
In a month, Nixon hit 68 percent approval, the apogee of his presidency, and Agnew was the third most admired man in America.
Reagan, by opposing the surrender of the Panama Canal to a leftist dictator, also rallied the MARs. He lost that battle, but his consolation prize was the GOP nomination and the presidency.
In recent years, we have seen the MARs rise again and again in roaring rebellion. But, invariably, when these rebellions occur, John McCain may be found inside the castle walls.
In 2007, McCain rushed to Washington to support George Bush, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post in the drive to grant amnesty to 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. A national firestorm killed the bill and almost killed McCain’s campaign.
A year earlier, a MARs uprising killed the Dubai ports deal.
The power elite was stunned by the explosion of outrage over the leasing of six U.S. ports to Arab sheiks. Nationalism remains a more potent force than globalism, and not only in America.
In Clinton’s first term, McCain stood with the establishment for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and the Mexican bailout. Middle America opposed them all.
In the past decade, the MARs have opposed free-trade deals, and lost, but won virtually every referendum on gay marriage, affirmative action or welfare for illegal aliens. Invariably, the MARs are portrayed as bigots, nativists, xenophobes, protectionists and isolationists, and their leaders as demagogues. In McCain’s words from 2000, they are “agents of intolerance.”
This is fine if you wish to be beloved in this city, but it may be a fatal impediment if you want to be president.
McCain’s problem is that, in 2008, when his old press idolaters have found a new favorite, these are the people who hold his key to the presidency. They are the Democrats who voted against Barack Obama by wide margins in Pennsylvania and Ohio and landslide margins in West Virginia and Kentucky.
These Democrats can still win this race for John McCain. Many admire his war record. But not only is he not one of them, he has taken pride and pleasure in having been their great antagonist.
Could McCain win them back in five weeks? Perhaps. Is he willing to do what is necessary to win them back? Probably not. It would go against his instincts and his image of himself.
The issues that move these folks are not just the $700 billion bailout of Gordon Gekko’s comrades, but the invasion of America from Mexico, the export of their jobs, factories and future to Asia, and the gnawing fear that the country they grew up in is being sacrificed for the benefit of an internationalist elite.
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So McCain is only a “maverick” in the sense of the word that he is regularly willing to collaborate with the corrupt liberal establishment against the interests and culture of middle Americans (ie he supports open borders, Nafta, Wall St bailouts, etc, and opposes preserving Christian values) and the rest of the time he collaborates with the warmongering, money corrupted GOP establishment. Just like Obama, he’s more of an elitist than a maverick, has always been, and always will be. I’m voting for Chuck Baldwin, just as Ron Paul recommends.
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As I sit here and watch Good Morning Joe, I can’t help but be saddened to see Pat Buchanan successfully seduced by Sarah Palin, the most rabid of the neocons, and most zealous for war, no matter where, when, or with who. She won’t be satisfied until there is a complete strategic loss for the U.S., military and economically, globally. Now that you’re a Palinist Pat, will you sign up in the Palin Brigade and go fight Russia? What happened to you Pat?
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He’s got to have something to talk about on the program doesn’t he? Pat’s foothold in the mainstream would get washed away if he got on TV every morning and ranted about how McCain is a globalist traitor.
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I’m in love with Sarah; I tremendously dislike McCain for reasons Pat Buchanan has so eloquently exposed. I am voting an almost straight Republican ticket in Cleveland because not-withstanding McCain abandoning the middle class, the party is still the only choice for life.
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“the party is still the only choice for life” yeah tell that to the iraqis
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Both parties are the party of death. It’s just a question of preferred method: abortion or war, or perhaps both?
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Sez Pat: “In recent years, we have seen the MARs rise again and again in roaring rebellion.” And the same MARS bars still vote for the established parties after every rebellion. This hope for a MARS revolt that will clean house in DC and NY sounds like the old Marxist prediction of “revolution around the corner,” and we all know what a failure that was.
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Pat is right about McCain’s lost last chance. The bill as presented
by Bush needed much more than tweaking by the likes of Nancy Pelosi & Co.. It’s obvious that McCain has decided to play it safe with Bush, the neocons and the Wall Street crowd.
I’m not surprised. The only thing that McCain was ever a “maverick” about, was crossing the party line. Much to the consternation of the hard right Republicans. That’s
why he needed someone like Palin on his ticket.
Let’s face it; McCain is a “Maverick in his own mind.” He doesn’t deserve to be president any more than Obama. The only “change” the American people; especially the middle class, will get with either of them is change in our pockets...as in “Nickel and
Dimed"* Yes! that is right…
The middle class will be in the same boat as the working class.
God Help Us!
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed:_On_(not)_Getting_by_in_America
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Bad Boy McCain pulls up in a Convertible named Big Government Conservatism and the bobby-socked girls of Cultural Conservative High just swoon with delight. They know he’s bad but maybe he an be reformed.
Meanwhile, at the Pep Rally, Perky Sarah does the splits and the boys go wild.
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Pat, get away from the pep rally, please. As conservatives, we can’t afford any more of the nonsense of the last 8 years, especially as magnified as contemplated by Palin and her running mate, as you know.
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“Nixon brought the “MARs” to national attention when, as David Broder then wrote, the “breaking of the president” was underway in October 1969. Nixon went on television and called for the Great Silent Majority to stand with him...” - Buchanan, from the article
Nixon asked us to stand with him and then proceeded to throw us under the proverbial bus.
Sam Francis’ strategy seems to have been to boom about culture whilst muttering about race under his breath.
You are no better, Buchanan. You won’t even explicitly exhort the genetic continuity of your own people.
Damn and blast you faileocons to hell!
I we, White Americans, don’t stand up, contra to and outside of the system, ourselves, we are toast.
Here is where the action is at:
http://www.majorityrights.com
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“I can’t help but be saddened to see Pat Buchanan successfully seduced by Sarah Palin...” - Federal Farmer
Buchanan is a system hack who lives in a mansion in the Virginia suburbs and rakes in a seven figure salary. Keep letting those scales fall from your eyes.
“Pat’s foothold in the mainstream would get washed away if he got on TV every morning and ranted about how McCain is a globalist traitor.” - Greg Bentley
I’ll repeat this ‘til I’m blue in the face: BUCHANAN IS A SYSTEM HACK!
If we want to secure the existence of our people and culture on this continent we need a bottom up racialist-populist movement - dare I say White Nationalism?
(Ahem!)
http://www.majorityrights.com
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If we want the unique genetic and cultural expression of our people to go on we must once again take the advice of the Founding Fathers seriously. We need to withdraw our support from the system and work to bring it down.
The sweat and toil of White Americans IS the life’s blood of the system. Without our support and participation it will collapse.
If our will is strong and we proceed intelligently we cannot be denied our rightful inheritance - North America.
I don’t here that dirt hitting that coffin yet, do you, White man?
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Perhaps McCain has a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama in his hip pocket, to be deployed in late October, and so will not need to tack towards the MARs. It would be a fitting conclusion to another cycle of cynicism and manipulation by both factions of the one party state.
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Buchanan may well be unwilling to forfeit All of the material benefits of keeping one foot in the mainstream, but I have read enough of his writing to know full well that of all the so-called “talking heads” on the Tube, he is the best of what is left of the Old Right who still enjoys a “public voice”. If he were to give full voice to his views, he would last perhaps 3 nano-seconds on the Tube. Then we would have not even one voice left on boob tube; and I’m not alluding to Fox. :)
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Then we would have not even one voice left on boob tube; and I’m not alluding to Fox. :)
Posted by Winky
Sometimes it just hits me from time to time how truly in the dark our people are as to the dire situation we find ourselves in. They really believe all this egalitarian, “diversity is our strength” horse manure.
It’s just sick, sad, and pathetic.
It seems that they are perfectly satisfied to go through life as units of pleasure consumption.
Freakin’ lemmings.
The race traitors and the Jews who know the truth and pushed for third-world immigration anyways are beneath contempt. I hope they burn in hell!
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“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped to all kinds of conclusions!
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“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped to all kinds of conclusions!
Posted by Winky
Sooner or later, our people need to be exposed to the full range of discourse from sources that they perceive as “respectable” or enough of them will not be awake and ready for action at the critical moment.
Buchanan is the most “mainstream” and the most “respectable” of all those who even attempt to speak for the interests of our people - he needs to become increasingly more explicit in expressing our needs.
He doesn’t have much time left and neither do we. Something has to be risked.
“The continued existence of my people (yes, genetically, yes they are unique, yes, there is a “there” there), whom I love, is in danger. They are my people.”
Sooner or later those words need to pass his lips. No way around that.
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“I reiterate what I said about ”national service” which will be as “voluntary” as obtaining food and housing.
Surely, you are aware of how the Neocons have turned deprivation of essentials into a supply of “volunteers” to submit to their authority in military service.
What the African in Obama—the genetic dominance in Obama—wants is centralization of power in the “big man”. He’ll be satisfied with fascism as long as it enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. He can entrain the globalists in this by corporatizing national service in a manner reminiscent of the way he might corporatize national healthcare.
What will be the response to this?
It’s hard to see much of a response out of the masses, or the elites, other than “compliance”.
Now, this isn’t to say there won’t be some contention:
Ralph Nader is the new Norm Thomas and Dennis Kucinich is the new Huey Long to the extent that Obama’s fascism is reminiscent of FDR’s “New Deal” socialism. But I think these guys are going to be even less effective than their predecessors as opposition, if that’s possible.
It doesn’t look good from here.” -James Bowery, Majority Rights
Now that is some hard-hitting, sobering analysis.
Any thoughts, Buchanan?
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“The Government is cunning and manipulative, and allows things to happen through a negligence that is quite intentional. It does not want to be in control in certain key management areas. The inadequacy of its positions is the best and, importantly, least blameworthy way to bring about its objectives.
In a normal time in a normal country these objectives would automatically focus upon strengthening our peoples, and that would include strengthening our national character. But our rulers strive to achieve the opposite, constantly blaming us and using us as scapegoats (racists) if anything goes wrong in the utopian plan. It affects our everyday lives because social relations now have to be regulated and, post 7/7, restrictive anti-terrorist laws are imposed on everyone, not just the likely suspects.
We used to be homogenous and trusted one another. In general it was peaceful. We queued. We relaxed with each other, and sought to get along by using good manners and showing consideration. Is the breaking up of that life through uncontrolled mass immigration an accident? No, the importation of cheap labour and new voting constituencies is wholly intentional.
In November 2006 the Government were advertising for immigrants and doing it by deceit. A Foreign Office pamphlet ‘Multicultural Britain - A Land Of Immigrants’ encouraged immigrants to come here because of the Human Rights Act and well-paid jobs. It was placed in embassies across the world. Cherie Blair, the former Prime Minister’s wife, is a human rights lawyer. No wonder immigration increased so much under Blair! In June 2004, while Conservative leader Michael Howard was campaigning against immigration to win the General Election, he was an investor in communications firm Incepta. A subsidiary company Citigate Lloyd Northover won two Home Office contracts to develop websites and communications technology to speed up applications from immigrants to enter the UK. The company also profited from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate website for the Government which eases the entrance and settling of asylum seekers. The Sunday Mirror of May 1, 2005 revealed that as Home Secretary in 1993 Michael Howard had given nearly 15,000 failed asylum seekers “exceptional leave to remain”
in Britain for life. He tried to conceal this.
It is, of course, completely unprecedented in the West for elites to attack their own peoples in this way. It must look pretty strange to the beneficiaries from abroad. But how do they perceive us? “You can chase their women and the men look the other way, even their fathers and brothers don’t mind! There is nothing they can do because their government and media are against them.”” - David Hamilton, Majority Rights guest blogger
http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/moslem_migration_a_tool_of_the_elites/#c63222
You see, paleocons? Now there is the truth. We are literally being coerced to assist in our own slow-motion genocide.
These men, the global power elite, race traitors and Jews, want to or don’t care if we are, exterminated.
They are our enemies, they are evil, this is war.
Wake up.
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McCain isn’t alone. It is always mecessary to go back to Reagan or Nixon to cite any political acumen, because all of the candides since have been lousy, elected or not. As Casey said, can’t anybody play this game?
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With the last couple of elections being so hotly contested I don’t believe that there are these mythical groups of voters that will deliver the presidency. Call them what you will, and Pat has a bunch of these groups that he has mentioned over time (Reagan Democrats, etc.)
These MARs now, who overwhelmingly choose what is right every once in a while, don’t seem to be around when it comes to picking a president. Or when it comes to chosing one, they are as troubled and split as the rest of the county.
To get this virtual group fired up and into action would be the end of the two-party mafia. If these people were as outraged about having two candidates for US president who put Israel first, corporate crooks second as they are about immigration, selling ports to Arabs, giving a $700 billion gift to Paulson and friends, then we would have a race between Balwin and Barr, not to mention massive pressure to get Paul and Pat to run.
I suspect these folks are the kind who would rather not vote for Evil.
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