This Election: New Liberal vs Old Liberal

There are some people you kinda like, but before admitting that to others, you have to wave the banner of DISCLAIMER. For me, Ann Coulter is one of those people. I like her style and humour, and sometimes I actually agree with what she writes.

Her latest piece, One Down, Two to Go, is mainly about saying ‘good riddance’ to the Clintons. In it she compares Bill to ‘the creepy guy who graduated last year but still hangs around the high school cafeteria chatting up sophomores,’ and refers to the post-2000 Al Gore as ‘a deranged conspiracy theorist who believes the Earth is in serious peril from cow flatulence.’ LOL. It’s only funny because it’s true.

Yet, at the same time, these are serious matters. The realms of politics and media are comparable only to Mos Eisley from Star Wars: ‘You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.’

Ann has a clever sense of word-play, and points out the reality that in this upcoming presidential election ‘that we are now left with two dangerous choices for president — a young liberal who is friendly with terrorists or an old liberal who is friendly with Teddy Kennedy.’ [emphasis mine]

I’ve extracted from Ann’s column a key concept for this election cycle: New Liberal (Obama) vs Old Liberal (McCain).

Unlike Ann, though, I don’t think of Islamic Terrorism as some monolithic threat like the Soviet Union that can only be dealt with by taking over Middle Eastern countries. Ann, to oppose a war path paved with false assumptions and lies does not a liberal make.

I’m often perplexed by the neoconservative concept of less government. They fail to see that perpetual war is a big government program. Having troops in over 120 countries around the world is costly and unnecessary. I’m sorry, Mr McCain, I don’t feel insecure enough to support a 100-years-war in Iraq (and Iran too; it seems).

McCain is not a liberal in disguise. He’s a liberal outright. He has opposed tax cuts at least twice in the last 8 years. He tagged his name on the anti-First Amendment legislation, McCain-Feingold. He sponsored an amendment to S. 1805 on March 2, 2004 that would outlaw the private sale of firearms at gun shows. On Second Amendment (true national security) issues alone, he is one of the premier liberals receiving an F rating from Gun Owners of America. 

Bush’s failures are the unholy trinity of Iraq war, open borders, and a foreign trade policy that has devalued the dollar. McCain has ever been the champion of all three. We can expect the amplification of all these in a McCain administration.

For those of us who champion Constitutional Conservatism and national sovereignty, who do we vote for? A better question would be, ’Should we vote at all?’ Take a good look at what we have: ’Old Liberal’ McCain vs ‘New Liberal’ Obama. The latter was rated ‘most liberal Senator in 2007‘ by National Journal. 

For now I guess I have to go into the media’s ‘Undecided’ category.