Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama - these are the three frontrunners for the presidency in the 2008 election.
The truth of the matter is, none of these candidates is likely to preside over what we would call a conservative administration.
As for the Democratic party front-runners, each elicits all sorts of pop psychology pseudo-questions such as "Is America ready for a woman president?" or "Is America ready for a black president?", questions which have little to do with the core issues.
Hillary and her leftism are well-known to conservatives, in fact, in many conservative circles opposition to the Clintons has replaced principled conservatism. Nevertheless, all the evidence indicates that Obama is farther left than Hillary, and identifies less with the historic American nation-state. In fact, Obama has presented his international background as a qualification for the presidency! That's a novel concept !
Those conservatives applaud Hillary's recent defeats ought to look at the big picture. Obama looks like a harder candidate for the Republicans to beat. Also, what kind of "coattails" effect would Obama have - that is, will his candidacy aid the election of more Democrats to the Congress? This is a vital question, as it's quite likely (barring some last-minute changes) that whomever is inaugurated in 2009, he (or she) won't be a conservative.
Of all the possible Republican canididates, how did we end up with John McCain ? This man is an open borders fanatic. On immigration, McCain more extreme than Hillary. The McCain's campaign "Hispanic Outreach Director" is Juan Hernandez, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen and former Mexican cabinet official, who wants to amnesty all illegal aliens. Why is that surprising, since John McCain wants the same thing?
McCain also displays an alienation from, and hostility toward the historical American nation. Remember the illegal alien demonstrations in 2006 ? McCain supported them. The Arizona senator has dismissed the very concept of an American culture, but, when speaking to an Hispanic group, showed himself to be a big fan of the infusion of Hispanic blood and culture. The bottom line is, McCain (like our current president) promotes the Hispanization of the United States. For more information on McCain, see my previous article here .On foreign policy, McCain wants to stay in Iraq, Obama wants to get out, Hillary sways with the wind, but none of the candidates wants to consider the Islamic Question . Are Muslim terrorists really distorting their religion, or are they following it ? Does our political elite really want to know the answer to that question?
The 2008 election, barring some sort of surprise dynamic third- party candidacy, or a brokered GOP convention (looking less and less likely), has no conservative candidate as a front-runner . So real conservatives (as opposed to Republican cheerleaders) must develop new strategies to further the conservative agenda.
