Conservatives push back against McCain
Posted by "Pat Buchanan, Jr." on February 01, 2008 at 11:03 PM
More anger from the Right. You cannot with good conservative conscience vote for McCain, not now, not Tuesday and not this November.
As the Democrats debated Thursday night, Ann Coulter was on Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” declaring that if John McCain faced Hillary Rodham Clinton in the general election, she would vote for Clinton.
“She’s more conservative than he is,” Coulter said.
McCain also faces a conservative insurrection over his opposition to interrogation techniques that border on torture and opposition to drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Wall Street Journal headed its editorial Thursday, “McCain’s Apostasies.”
That same day, Human Events headlined its lead story online, “Who hijacked the primaries?”
And then there’s Rush Limbaugh. In recent days, the supremely influential radio icon has been vociferous (even for him) in declaring that a McCain nomination will cause the destruction of the conservative movement.
“My so-called base is not rushing to vote for McCain,” Limbaugh said on his radio show.
“He relishes kind of tweaking conservatives,” said Don Devine, vice-chairman of the American Conservative Union.
“He doesn’t have, or has very few, friends in the leadership of the conservative movement. There is no question about it.”
Devine said he would likely not vote for McCain should he win the Republican nomination.
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