2008 Woodie Awards
Conservatives need to unite around McCain
Aanston Frazier
Issue date: 2/13/08 Section: Editorials
With last Thursday's withdrawal of Mitt Romney from the Republican presidential race, Arizona Sen. John McCain is all but assured of the nomination.
However, former governor Mike Huckabee is still staying in the race, complicating McCain's efforts at unifying the party. Added to this is the fact that some conservatives are refusing to support McCain, with some even hinting of actively opposing him. Actions like this only hurt Republicans and conservatives and do no good for either group.
John McCain certainly has his faults, yet he will be the Republican nominee. Working against him only benefits the Democratic Party, making it possible for conservatives to lose big. Huckabee staying in the race long past the point where he has any chance of winning only hurts McCain's efforts to raise money and begin campaigning in full for the general election.
A few that oppose McCain do so with the mistaken idea that because a Democrat win in 1976 led to Ronald Reagan being elected in 1980, allowing a Democrat in 2008 will allow a "true" conservative to win in 2012. Of course, allowing a Democrat to win in 1992 allowed for a Democrat to win again in 1996. But that wouldn't happen this time, would it?
Some conservatives even oppose McCain with a form of mental derangement that embarrasses conservatives as a whole. Last week during the Conservative Political Action Conference, commentator Ann Coulter said of McCain: "I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy."
After watching for years as the far left has repeatedly compared President Bush to Hitler, it is absolutely pathetic to see a supposed conservative travel off to the same land of insanity. Comparing anyone to Hitler only shows that you have nothing of intelligence to add to the discussion and are simply resorting to throwing insults like a child.
The time for these conservatives to have opposed McCain was while the primary was still competitive. Now that he will be the nominee, it is time for these conservatives to unite behind McCain and time for Huckabee to realize he can't win and bow out of the campaign. Despite McCain's faults, he is still better than either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Working against McCain only helps one of these Democrats to get elected. Acting like a child that takes his ball and goes home when he doesn't like the way the game is turning out only embarrasses conservatives as a whole. It is time that conservatives and Republicans unite behind McCain and work to ensure at least some of their issues will be realized, as opposed to none, as would happen under a Democratic administration.
- Aanston Frazier, a former Marine Corps intelligence analyst, is a junior economics and political science major and a Mirror columnist.
However, former governor Mike Huckabee is still staying in the race, complicating McCain's efforts at unifying the party. Added to this is the fact that some conservatives are refusing to support McCain, with some even hinting of actively opposing him. Actions like this only hurt Republicans and conservatives and do no good for either group.
John McCain certainly has his faults, yet he will be the Republican nominee. Working against him only benefits the Democratic Party, making it possible for conservatives to lose big. Huckabee staying in the race long past the point where he has any chance of winning only hurts McCain's efforts to raise money and begin campaigning in full for the general election.
A few that oppose McCain do so with the mistaken idea that because a Democrat win in 1976 led to Ronald Reagan being elected in 1980, allowing a Democrat in 2008 will allow a "true" conservative to win in 2012. Of course, allowing a Democrat to win in 1992 allowed for a Democrat to win again in 1996. But that wouldn't happen this time, would it?
Some conservatives even oppose McCain with a form of mental derangement that embarrasses conservatives as a whole. Last week during the Conservative Political Action Conference, commentator Ann Coulter said of McCain: "I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy."
After watching for years as the far left has repeatedly compared President Bush to Hitler, it is absolutely pathetic to see a supposed conservative travel off to the same land of insanity. Comparing anyone to Hitler only shows that you have nothing of intelligence to add to the discussion and are simply resorting to throwing insults like a child.
The time for these conservatives to have opposed McCain was while the primary was still competitive. Now that he will be the nominee, it is time for these conservatives to unite behind McCain and time for Huckabee to realize he can't win and bow out of the campaign. Despite McCain's faults, he is still better than either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Working against McCain only helps one of these Democrats to get elected. Acting like a child that takes his ball and goes home when he doesn't like the way the game is turning out only embarrasses conservatives as a whole. It is time that conservatives and Republicans unite behind McCain and work to ensure at least some of their issues will be realized, as opposed to none, as would happen under a Democratic administration.
- Aanston Frazier, a former Marine Corps intelligence analyst, is a junior economics and political science major and a Mirror columnist.
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