John McCain crashing and burning in the process of sucking up to the chronic malcontent wing of his party (better known as CPAC) last week fits a developing pattern.
We've already seen Ann Coulter, James Dobson, all of Fox News (a.k.a. Giuliani 08 Public Relations), Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of Talk Radio Land tear him a new sphincter, vowing instead to support Hillary Clinton – now those are some outlandish, ratings-grabbing, controversial remarks! Very insightful. What is starting to bother me is the enthusiasm with which the right seems to want to lose this race.
I know they think they're being very clever ("I'd rather maintain my rigid, borderline-fascist devotion to The Cause than bend them to support a faux-Believer like McCain!") but it is really a transparent ploy to pawn the consequences, damage, and mortgaged costs of the Bush presidency onto a Democrat who can subsequently be blamed for all of it. I doubt, in all honesty, that they really have this much of a problem with McCain.
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True, he does deviate from the Faith to some degree, but these people are trying to make him sound like Chomsky. Do you think that might be, oh, a bit much?
No, it's not too much – as long as we keep the ultimate goal in mind.
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That is of course to lose the 2008 election. Think of how satisfying that will be for right-wing America. They'll have a Clinton presidency over which to vent years worth of red-faced, choking-on-bile histrionics. It's talk radio ratings gold! They'll also have a patsy to blame for the mess that the Dear Leader has created. The sad thing is that most Americans' attention spans are so short, their analytical skills so linear, and their attitudes so biased that it will not be hard to convince them that whoever is in office when the house of cards collapses is to blame. Then again, this scenario doesn't change much if McCain wins despite their efforts to torpedo him. They'll simply insist, as they always do, that he failed because he wasn't conservative enough.
Ahh, hardcore neoconservatism: the ideology that is often failed but never fails.
JDryden says:
There's an instinctive intelligence to this agenda of theirs; I've found myself asking colleagues who've gotten fired up about the election and their candidates why, if they're so attached to their candidates, they want to see him/her become the Herbert Hoover of the new century. The clean-up of this mess will take too long for the attention-span of the electorate, who will quickly blame the office holder for the disasters of his predecessor. Oh, sure, there's always the chance that the next guy/gal will play Lincoln to Bush's Buchanan, but…yeah, I don't see that happening, either…
Batocchio says:
Then there's the conservative T-shirt that says, "I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for McCain."