Jim DeMint on John McCain; “He Betrayed Republican Principles”

 Now that the campaign is over and the Republican turncoat, illegal alien amnesty granting, free speech infringing senator from Arizona has failed miserably Republicans are starting to turn on him. It is only fitting in my book considering he shit on conservatives for the last eight years and then wanted our vote even as he courted Democrats during the election.

 Jim DeMint is the first high profile Republican to break the silence regarding John McCain.

“McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver’s seat,” DeMint said. “His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn’t fit the label, but he was our package.”

“Americans do prefer a traditional conservative government,” he said. “They just did not believe Republicans were going to give it to them.”

 He is exactly right about this, John McCain is not a conservative and he didn’t campaign as a conservative. John McCain abandoned conservatives years ago and even during the campaign he was more interested in winning the votes of moderates and liberals than he was of shoring up the Republican base. He knew that conservatives had nowhere to go so he didn’t even bother to try to win them over. I saw one poll result that showed that 19% of people who consider themselves conservative voted for Obama. I know how hard that is to believe but it shows a fatal flaw that McCain made. He abandoned conservatives and them we he needed them the most conservatives abandoned him.

 It is time for conservative Republicans to get back to their roots. It is time for Republicans to get back to smaller government and less spending, 180 degrees from the Bush administrations policies. If conservatives run as conservatives and not as liberals, as John McCain did, it is possible to start the ball in motion and take back our country. If Republicans continue to “re-brand” conservatism than we are doomed to fail and fail again.

 John McCain is living proof of that.