Why does John McCain irritate so many conservatives in his own party? Why don’t they trust him, no matter how much he claims he was a ‘foot soldier’ in the Reagan Revolution? Maybe it’s because he makes statements like this (from Bloomberg at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVLF68kNBUgAO):

Senator John McCain put the blame on Wall Street for the home mortgage credit crisis that has roiled financial markets around the world. ``Wall Street is the villain in the things that happened in the subprime lending crisis and other areas where investigations and possible prosecution is going on,'' McCain said during a taped appearance on ABC's ``This Week'' program.

…he supports the housing bill passed by Congress yesterday to stem foreclosures and aid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, even though it may cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion.

McCain, 71, said the risk of the mortgage companies' failure is outweighed by the potential cost. He also said Fannie and Freddie should be barred from lobbying Congress and their executives' compensation should be reduced.

``We should eliminate the pay and bonuses that these people rake in,'' McCain said

Now take his statements on the mortgage issue and compare them to what I said in my article The Coming Darkness: Analysis of the Left:

All leftist movements are built on two elements. The first element is the crisis. The crisis is a victim class, a disaster (imminent or occurring), or both. The second element is the grievance. The grievance is always targeted at a villain, who by action or inaction is responsible for the crisis. The crisis is an excuse to file the grievance. The grievance serves two purposes. It’s is a lighting rod to manipulate the movement’s faithful - a conduit to channel hate, anger or guilt. It also serves to punish the villain. Built on fear and envy, these movements are never for something, but always against something..

Power Barons use these movements as convenient tools to acquire, expand and defend political power. Seldom true believers, they usually come from the ranks of the Crusaders and are politicians, national and international high-level bureaucrats, dictators, and despots…In their hearts they serve no ideology other than their own personal interest, even to the detriment of the society around them. They will ride the movement until it serves their ends. Then, like locusts, they’ll move on...

McCain’s statements are clearly those of a leftist, an unvarnished democrat. He adopts the victim/crisis/grievance strategy which as serves the left so well. He is the quintessential poster child of why conservatives grow ever more disgusted with the Republican Party. Here is another excerpt from ‘Coming Darkness…”

The last bastion of conservative thought in the western world, the Republican Party, has adopted the strategy of the enemy. With terms like ‘compassionate conservatism’ and ‘common sense conservatism’ Republicans seek many of the same clients as the Power Syndicate. They’ve ceded their conservative ideology for a Power Syndicate ‘big-tent’ approach. They’ve embraced big government and forsaken Reagan and the Contract with America.

This being said, McCain is the only realistic game in town for conservatives. It comes down to one issue: the Supreme Court. I must to vote for him and beseech other conservatives to vote for him as well. If Obama wins, the Supreme Court will be lost for a generation. Based on the 5-4/4-5 rulings on guns and eminent domain an Obama presidency is too dangerous to contemplate. It’s a bitter pill, but one conservatives must swallow.

If you want to know more about how the left operates, read the handbook: The Coming Darkness: Analysis of the Left.