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On the Right on Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:51:22 PM
Michelle Malkin • May 15, 2008 10:08 AM
You’ll
have to forgive me for not getting all worked up about John McCain’s
BVT (Big Vision Thing) speech this morning in Columbus, Ohio.
The fatal flaw lies in McCain’s persistent belief, shared by the MSM
and Beltway pundits, that partisanship in and of itself is at the root
of all our ills.
McCain’s problem is that he has allied himself, for the
unprincipled, empty cause of mindless “bipartisanship,” with people and
causes that move our country in the wrong direction.
I don’t want a Republican presidential nominee who makes common cause with La Raza/The Race.
I don’t want a Republican presidential nominee who sneers about profits like Ralph Nader.
I don’t want a Republican presidential nominee who talks and walks like Al Gore.
And as I’ve said before in response to the annoying McCain platitudes about “reaching across the aisle” and “getting things done:”
When did it become the Republican Party’s top priority to “get things done?”
“Get things done” is mindless liberal code for passing legislation and expanding government.
And as McCain’s ample legislative record demonstrates, “reaching
across the political aisle” never entails pulling opponents to the
right. It always entails selling out the right.
How about defending our side of the political aisle?
The bulk of the speech is a “look back” as if it were 2013 and McCain’s
assessing all his progress as president. You know it’s pure fantasy
because of this line
At no time in American history has illegal alien amnesty ever led to a reduction in–let alone control of–illegal immigration.
Fantasy land.
How about standing up to the regulatory and legislative encroachment of those on the other side of the political aisle?
How about limiting the damage done by Democrat meddlers trying to get their “things done?”
How about less trashing of the entrepreneurs on our side of the aisle who are the engine of our economy?
How about getting more things undone?
From the prepared text of the speech (full text here)