by Steve Finefrock – [scriptwriter]

Mac is thinking a lot more like his fellow republicans these days – much as they did so often when he was the Maverick in Chief in the Senate conservative cloakroom.

Today’s McCain Cloakroom is bursting with such luminaries as Colin Powell, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan, David Gergen, David Brooks, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, George Will, Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. These are but a few of my least favorite beings of betrayal, who are all anxious to be liked by ‘Them’ on the left. They are abandoning the Conservative Cause in order to preserve their neutrality – or as Parker asserted to Chris Matthews, their ‘credibility’ – in the future.

And what will that credibility with ‘Them” bring these scoundrels?

Nuttin’.
Nada.
Nyet.
Zip.
Zilch.
Zero.
Kaput.

As with McCain, it will be a future farming of the crop they have planted, in an eager reach for legitimacy in the Obama-World they anticipate. The greatest satisfaction for those who’ve not yet jumped ship is for Mac to pull off an upset of OTO – Obama The One. And to upset all the traitors to the conservative efforts, as they scramble for inaugural invitations despite their abandonment of the nominee.

For as oft-used, we have here déjà vu all over again, deja voodoo, that magic of politics when sometimes justice is wrought upon those most deserving of it. As the cheering continues in these efforts for OTO’s demise on November 4th, let us assume the worst happens, with his elevation to the Oval, as the nation’s Oval Teen takes the helm of the ship of state. The abandonment of Mac by the weenies listed above is wickedly just-desserts. For the feelings he is undoubtedly corralling are exactly what he engendered in his early days.

As he put his thumb in the GOPsters eyes, and sometimes into other orifices, so now many are shoving their appendages into his vulnerable openings. They expect the lefties to grant some passport across the DMZ into leftwing salons of fashionable political intercourse. After all, will be these traitors’ insistence in post-inaugural OTO regency, they are ‘reasonable republicans’ and ‘conscientious conservatives’ who were frank, honest, brutal and ideological flexible in the past campaign.

As Mac sought forgiveness for sins while he sought the presidential nomination, in 2000 and again this time around the greasy pole. And what did his three decades of earning ‘credibility’ earn him with the left [pols, pundits and reporters] when he became the GOP nominee? Zip, Zero, Zilch, et al. That nasty story in late spring in the NY Times earned Mac’s declaration that he was ‘disappointed’ at the story’s viciousness.

It was only a hint of what was to come. His transcendence among the lefties, for being a maverick who caused grief to the GOP, fizzled once he was the presumptive nominee. Such treatment can be expected for the traitorous turkeys, seeking to maintain their credibility – and invitations to such yaparamas as Chris Matthews’ two regular shows.

The slightest misbehavior, the tiniest dissing and dissidence from Matthews & Co’s parameters will earn Kparker.com’s associated abandoners a quick ejection from the outer-ring of the inner sanctums of the MSNBC beasts. Chris Buckley’s disobedience of any rules at the new site, The Daily Beast, will also get him bounced from invitation lists. Only so long as they obey the various beasts of the left will they be allowed scraps from their dining table of public and private participation.

As learned the hard way by Mac. Many are doubting his possible miracle – even one GOP insider texted me a mere twenty-four hours after Palin’s turn on SNL, “all may be lost” – but such professionals are doubting in private, not on public venues, where the Buckley-Parker-Powell gang give pubic boosts to the tingly-leg body parts of the body politic of the leftwing beast.

Yes, indeed, John McCain, let me introduce you to your clones: The McCains, now replicants of your own pre-2008 behavior enroute to the GOP title. Should you pull off a “Joe the Plumber” miracle, remember to look in the mirror when you regard these weasels. Their numbers are merely the progeny of your own actions and antics when seeking the acceptance of the left, as you put your name on McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy. But as noted in the lengthy piece on OTO Illinois days, in American Thinker – that OTO’s bipartisanship was ‘bipartisanship for thee, not for me’ – The McCains will find that their newfound lefty associates are fare-weather friends only: so long as the traitors keep paying the fare of adoration to OTO’s cherished messiahdom.

The tiniest deviation and the Chris Buckleys and K.parkers who thought there was insufficient ‘tolerance’ in the GOP’s political punditry theatre will get whiplash from their new lefty pals. They think Palin isn’t intellectual enough? OTO is so-very-smart? Not much good reason to so early give up on their nominee. That insider’s doubts in the text message? Notice that it said “may” be lost – no surrender, no public award of salivation sources to the left by the professionals, by the loyal insiders. One high-octane GOP insider even e-mailed me a month ago with a passionate defense of Michelle Obama, in comparison to Cindy McCain, and also Palin.

But not in public. Not giving solace to the left. Not a single “McCain” among them – all loyal in public, even if in private with rising worries, doubts, negative predictions.

The fastest growing political family, or clan more like it, is The McCains. They will seek solace from their new friends on the left, throwing brickbats at the National Review for its unseemly dispatch of their traitorous text from its pages. But sometime soon, should an OTO presidency prevail, they will learn McCain’s own “disappointment” when a shaft is inserted into their beloved beliefs. When they are scratched in the eyes and groin by Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, for daring to stand up for core conservative principles.

And like Tudor Turtle on Rocky & Bulwinkle so many years ago, they will cry for return to the warm womb of their home-base of conservatism. After this joyous, short-gratification tour into ‘credibility’ sustenance, they will scream like Mac, for admission into their rejected home.

Whether Mac is our Oval Team Leader, or we have an Oval Teen in charge, what will be the response to this plea, by those who’ve stood by Mac thru election day? Is there a place at the table of conservative dining? Maybe the kiddie table, over in the corner, in the tiny squattish chairs, eating on plastic plates with plastic spoons and Styrofoam cups.

At present the kiddies’ table may be a big one, as The McCain Clan grows by leaps and bounds. Sitting at the head of that short-legged but large table will be Colin Powell – especially after the first major crisis reveals OTO’s rigidity, or President McCain’s insights.

For my part, I’d like the McCain Clan kiddie table to be set up in a distant desert, without any dessert, only cold bread and plain water served them – on inaugural day, whichever way the electoral winds blow on November 4th.

But their common heritage with John McCain began with his mavericky days, as this set of mavericks puts his mind in a daze, wondering “How could they” act just like he did for three decades. These are the Chickens Coming To Roost on Mac’s shoulder – a shame they chose to roost so loudly and proudly and narcissistically before election day, for they help to condemn Mac and conservatism to another wilderness tour.

Unless Joe the Plumber can plumb the depths of newly-motivated voters, to realize that, despite The McCains’ treachery, this The Vital Nation still requires leadership by anyone but OTO. Or any democrat. Or any who want to redistribute wealth and use the tax code for social engineering. A key failure of The McCains supposed intellectual superiority. So, instead of a desert for their kiddie table, let’s make it the city square of Tehran. Surely their new best friend, OTO, can arrange a friendly setting, when he negotiates with his new best friends in Iran.

Or, President McCain can have the McCain Clan air-dropped into Tehrah, his gift to the mullahs. ExileStreet

copyright 2008 Steve Finefrock

Finefrock is founder of Hollywood Forum, a speaker-bureau and panel-discussion vehicle to “Bring the Potomac to the Palisades” on issues that overlap politics and culture with the Hollywood film-TV influence on such national concerns. His scripts have addressed politics [including a TV series pilot/bible package about state political combat, called “A State of the Union”], hazardous materials [from twelve years in emergency management, including six years managing FEMA’s Superfund curriculum for hazmat], terrorism, equestrian reincarnation, serial murderer killing journalists in the nation’s capitol, and fantasy about time-wasters. Finefrock is proprietor of PhoneBooth: The Smallest Space in Hollywood…

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