As the campaign unfolds, I will be writing more about all of this, but let this serve as a basic orientation.
This November, we are facing a choice between disaster A or disaster B. We are piloting a plane that is going to crash, and we have the choice of crashing in the sea or on the land. As I have mentioned before, I understand fully why many of my fellow conservatives would opt for crashing in the sea. Fine. We are going to do one or the other, and if you want to help decide, I certainly don’t blame you. And maybe chances of survival are increased with one of the choices. But what I don’t get is how my fellow conservatives can confuse “crashing in the sea” with “flying home safely.”
Let me give just one “fer instance.” In the most recent edition of Chronicles, Srdja Trifkovic rightly calls George Soros one of the “most evil men in the world,” and the “Philanthropist From Hell.” Conservatives who know this man’s name likely know it from the common denunciations in our circles of the moonbat group MoveOn.org, one cause among many for which Soros serves as Sugar Daddy. Sean Hannity and his like are ruthless in their denunciations of anyone who comes within fifty yards of Soros.
Except for John McCain
. One of McCain’s many grotestqueries was his co-sponsorship of McCain/Feingold, a bill that virtually annihilates free speech in the one area — political campaigns — where the Founders would have been most concerned to preserve it. Now conservatives are famously unhappy with McCain over that, thinking it an unfortunate lapse among a number of other unfortunate lapses.
But as Trifkovic reports, that whole business was tangled up with . . . George Soros. The Reform Institute was founded in 2001, and was pushing for “campaign-finance reform.” That atrocity was chaired by John McCain until 2005. The initial funding for the Institute came from George Soros, and from the Teresa Heinz-Kerry Tides Foundation. You remember Teresa, don’t you? And when it opened its doors in 2001, Arianna Huffington, a close associate of Soros, was on the board. And together they all conspired to outlaw individual citizens from telling the truth to the public during the course of a political campaign.
During the course of this coming campaign, you will probably hear the name of Soros a lot. But almost all of it will be connected to Obama — and rightly so. “Vote Obama! Crash on the rocks!” Sure, Soros would want Obama. But he would be happy with McCain, and why conservatives would be happy with McCain is beyond me.