What McCain Did NOT Do At CPAC

As far as it went, John McCain's speech before conservatives at CPAC this week contained much to applaud. There is no doubt he would be an excellent commander-in-chief whose experience far surpasses most everyone else with name recognition in the Congress.

He is to be commended for his support of the Second Amendment, the First Amendment and personal, individual liberties, securing the borders, making the Bush tax cuts permanent (which neither Hillary nor Obama would do), smaller government, and the right to life.

There is much, however, that McCain did NOT say in that speech, and therein is where the trouble lies.

Here is a brief run-down on what McCain failed to say that he needed to say to win the votes of people like me:

--He refused to repudiate McCain-Feingold as an attack on Free Speech.
--He said nothing about his support to clamp down on gun shows, in spite of his supposed 'support of the Second Amendment.'
--He failed to define 'securing the borders,' meaning, simply, that sanctuary cities can continue breaking the law unpunished, and illegal aliens who are already here will be given an unfair advantage over those who come here legally.
--He failed to define himself as a person who stands for lower taxes, in light of the fact that he voted twice against the Bush tax cuts, while claiming he supports making those cuts permanent.

In addition to these core issues of critical importance to Reagan conservatives, let us not overlook the fact that McCain has hitched his wagon to the most extremist of the alarmists within the 'environmentalist movement,' which is made up of wackos who believe that human beings themselves are the single biggest threat to the planet.

One begins to wonder at times in listening to these people if perhaps they would like to see a massive extinction of the human race in order to 'save the planet.'

Yet McCain has embraced many of the precepts propounded by these looney-toons wackos who probably belong in mental hospitals.

Thus, my friends, it is not so much what McCain said on Thursday but what he did NOT say that is of paramount importance.