McCain “Could…Go…All…The…Way!”
by Sean Hackbarth
Sen. John McCain finishes his last few hours as a candidate on a humorous note:
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TAM isn’t as vocal because I’m involved in the day-to-day stuff that will (hopefully) convince more Americans conservatives have the answers to the vexing problems facing government. That means time is drawn to that instead of writing. So I’m not going away, just using my talents in a different way.
Where is TAM? At this crucial hour in American conservatism?
The Republican Party retains a remarkably strong pulse, considering that McCain’s often chaotic campaign earned 46 percent of the popular vote while tacking into terrible winds. Conservatives can take some solace from the fact that four years after Goldwater won just 38.5 percent of the popular vote, a Republican president was elected.
The conservative ascendancy that was achieved in 1980 reflected a broad consensus favoring government more robust abroad and less ambitious at home — roughly the reverse of Tuesday’s consensus. But conservatives should note what their current condition demonstrates: Opinion is shiftable sand. It can be shifted, as Goldwater understood, by ideas, and by the other party overreaching, which the heavily Democratic Congress elected in 1964 promptly did.