It's Time

Kirsten Powers pens article here that takes the left-wing netroots to task for getting their panties all in a wad regarding Obama’s flip-flops and triangulating towards the center in the post-primary/general election season. Its all part of a necessary compromise with reality that is required in order to win the Presidency, she believes


"They claim to want to win, yet they're determined to malign the Democratic nominee for doing what he always said he would do: make compromises and find the middle ground."

"Grow up, net rooters: You're going to see more Obama compromises with reality, more shifts to address what the real Democratic base cares about. Don't even be surprised if he comes out with a plan to allow domestic oil drilling."

And though we see Obama’s “compromising” and “post-ideological” brand of politics as more “lacks a set”, we nonetheless were struck by the article over how it applies to the conservatives’ relationship with John McCain and how we are seeing ourselves cope with his candidacy and message here in the general election.

If you are familiar with our work, you know we haven’t exactly been charitable towards Senator McCain in the past. We viewed his authorship of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act and last year’s Amnesty bill to be egregious sins… nearly unforgivable.

Well, what are we going to do? To pick up on Ms. Powers’ “reality of the situation” thought process, if one is never going to find a job that is exactly to their liking or a spouse that grades-out 10s across the board, one is sure as hell not going to find the completely ideal political candidate.

What is important to us? Again, to use Powers’ reasoning that you will get a blank look from 85-90% of the people in this country if you asked them about FISA legislation, or in our case, Campaign Finance Reform, we’re going with the national security/War on Terror, the economy and government spending.

What about the Border? What about illegal immigration? We truly do believe McCain “got the message” on border enforcement and though we think he’s still too cozy with the idea of defacto Amnesty we also believe that the issue has been raised to a level of public awareness that the citizenry of this country across the political spectrum who believe passionately about the rule of law and real justice as it relates to illegal immigration can practice a policy of “containment” with whoever is in the Oval Office, be it McCain or Obama.

We believe John McCain is better for this country in terms of national security - a virtual endorsement by Hamas of Obama is all one really needs to know regarding that topic. We believe McCain’s solid record when it comes to fiscal and budgetary restraint is about the best answer to this country’s mounting future under-funded liabilities – Obama has not given any indication that he has the will to rein-in spending, in fact, his indications have been the opposite. And it’s McCain’s commitment to free-trade and small-government/minimalist approach to spending that is what will serve the economy best in the short, mid- and long terms. We are a nation of 300+ million hard-working, innovative people. With respect to the economy, many times the best thing to do is to simply stay out of our way.

And personally, we find McCain’s combination of strength of conviction and humility to be far more engaging than the haught and smarm evinced by Obama for whom we are experiencing an increasing personal distaste.

So there you have it. As far as endorsements go, there have been stronger but the time has come to embrace the reality of the situation as Beers with Demo formally endorses John McCain for President of the United States.