The Ultimate McCain Bumper-Sticker

...comes courtesy of (who else?) Hillary Rodham Clinton, by way of bubble-headed Brit Tina Brown, who just slays us with the cute, "punny" title Taking the GOP Bait, Hook, Line, and Stinker.

Stinker? How does she do it?

At any rate, our hearts soared when we read this delectable quote from Hillary Clinton. What's the best part of the quote? The damning-with-no-praise-at-all for John McCain, or the scary "Just do what you're told" message to the party faithful?

"You don't have to fall in love," Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly reproved a top Democratic fundraiser who was recently moaning about McCain's lackluster performance as a candidate. "You just have to fall in line."

John McCain

You don't have to fall in love. You just have to fall in line.

Best. Slogan. Ever.

The quote is almost too good to be true. We'd go so far as doubting it was actually said -- no one is that honest and pithy and creepy off-the-cuff -- except that it is attributed to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Which tends to make it much more plausible.

I didn't write the above entry. All I did was change a name.

You see, on April 25, 2004 the owner of this site did write the above entry.

The name I changed was Kerry. It now appears as McCain everywhere in the text that Kerry once was. We all had a great laugh at the time at the Democrats expense. Me included.

It's not so funny now, is it? But isn't it essentially what the rationale for McCain's campaign is going to be? Vote for me...I'm not Hillary. Fall in line like good little conservative soldiers, even though I have a habit of pissing down your leg and telling you it's raining.

Let's all run to the polls! Even our host admits he'll govern like a Democrat, and once in power you know McCain won't even have to give lip service to the Conservatives in the base he has long held in contempt.

You think your immigration concerns are meaningful? Just wait until Attorney General Lindsey Graham calls you a bigot. Think "global warming/climate change" is bogus? Just wait until Johnny Mac signs Kyoto.

In any event, that's besides the point. I agree with Goldstein.

Unlike some, I'm not "in love" and I'm also not going to "fall in line." Should McCain win the nomination, the only question for me is whether I stay home or whether I affirmatively vote against him.

For all I know, President Hillary Clinton might be the best thing that could ever happen from a conservative's viewpoint. After all, her husband's election heralded the GOP tsunami of 1994. And she's much more objectionable than he.

There was a time when presented with the "fall in love, fall in line" approach, many would have scoffed and rejected the proposition as offering false choices. And rightly so.

I miss those days.

posted by Jack M. at 08:04 PM

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