And Now It's On To McCain

McCain’s signature campaign issue is his promise to fight and win the war waged on Western civilization by Islamo-nazi-fascist terrorists in their worldwide campaign for a global caliphate and total world domination. McCain states that he will: “Win the war against terrorism and argue convincingly that losing in Iraq would result in far greater losses than any we've seen.” McCain probably understands more than most the severity and magnitude of the threat to this country. It is telling that Clinton and Obama can’t even bring themselves to utter the words jihadist, fascist, Islamo-nazi terrorism. How in the world could either of them be expected to confront and defeat the threat that has been so effectively ignored by the politically-correct, hard-left mainstream news media in this country if they can’t even say the words?

For a much better understanding of the Islamo-jihadist threat to this country and to the West, you might want to look at 2 DVDs available from Netflix (and Amazon.com):

(1) “Islam: What the West Needs to Know” (2006), and

(2) “Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West” (2006).

The first DVD gives a good summary of the history of Islam and its dictates as expressed in the Koran and the Hadith. The second is a good summary of the contemporary war currently being waged by the jihadists, in this country and in Europe, against the West and its similarity to Hitler and Nazi Germany of the 1930s. You really need to see both DVDs before voting for someone other than John McCain this fall. As Edmond Burke stated, and to which John McCain alluded, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” And , clearly, nothing is what we're doing.

McCain Revealed
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Republicans: With Mitt Romney's gallant departure from the GOP race, John McCain has all but wrapped up the nomination. Can he now convince conservatives, his party's base, he's one of them? Yes, he can.

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Standing before hundreds of combative conservatives gathered for the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference, McCain made the most important political speech of his life so far. In it, he needed to make his case for conservative support, without which he can't win in November.

He did that and more, in a wide-ranging manifesto that quoted conservative eminences from Edmund Burke to Ronald Reagan.

"I believe today," McCain said, "as I believed 25 years ago, in small government; fiscal discipline; low taxes; a strong defense; judges who enforce, and not make, our laws; the social values that are the true source of our strength; and, generally, the steadfast defense of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which I have defended my entire career as God-given to the born and the unborn."

If there's a more thoroughly conservative statement of personal political belief out there, we've not seen it. The things McCain articulated as the soul of his own beliefs are bedrock conservatism, pure and simple.

We have acknowledged numerous policy differences with Sen. McCain over the years. Even in disagreement, however, we've always felt he was a man of honor and principle.

Unfortunately, many conservatives don't feel the same. They don't trust McCain when he calls himself, as he did Thursday, a "mainstream conservative." Based on his rousing speech and the response it got, we think — we hope — that opinion will change.

Along with showing he has the "vision thing," McCain also made a series of very concrete promises — met, mostly, with rapturous applause from the skeptical CPAC audience. Among other things, he pledged to:

• Cut taxes on individuals and corporations, and end the alternative minimum tax.

• Use markets, not big government, to solve health care problems.

• Appoint federal judges and Supreme Court justices in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito.

• Put Iran on notice that its espousal of the destruction of Israel and its hatred of the U.S. will earn our implacable opposition to its bid to gain a nuclear bomb.

• Win the war against terrorism, arguing convincingly that losing in Iraq would result in far greater losses than any we've seen. "And I will not," McCain said, "allow that to happen."

These are all profoundly conservative stances. But the last one is especially, and vitally, important — not just for movement conservatives, but for all Americans. Indeed, it's the main point of difference between Democrats and Republicans. Those who think a vote one way or the other won't matter aren't thinking seriously.

Romney, in his gracious exit, underlined this as the reason he was leaving the race — he wanted to have a clear message sent from the GOP about where it stood on the war on terror.

"In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," he said. And yes, he meant it. Romney's display of political maturity and selflessness means he has a bright future — as a possible vice presidential candidate or, down the road (he's only 60), as his party's nominee.

McCain still has work to do to unite his party's various factions. But having a president who will fight our proclaimed enemies should serve that purpose.