woiyo wrote:McCain has about a 85% "conservative voting record".
These wing nuts on the radio sound as foolish as the left wing nuts do.
McCain is conservative enough to reach the majority of ALL AMERICANS.
I don't know about the 85%, woiyo. Lets just look at a few simple issues:
The war - generally supportive of our policies, but constantly nitpicking the Department of Defense, the administration, the pentagon, the generals, criticized our interrogation techniques, criticized necessary interception of terrorist conversations, generally critical, all of which undercuts logical policy. I can just imagine he will love it when people start nitpicking his foreign policy or war policy, which will most assuredly have many flaws.
Taxes and spending - I would give him some credit on this, but he has not been supportive of supply side economics all that completely. He claims to be a spending cutter, but where is the evidence, I would need to see it. I will give him a pass on this pending further examination.
Immigration - dead wrong on this issue, and he has done nothing to fix it, and this is one reason he didn't win bigger in his home state.
Supreme Court justices - remember the gang of 14. Look for more liberal judges if he chooses them, as he reaches across the aisle, quote unquote. No thanks to him for a couple of decent judges, Roberts and Alito.
Environment - he chimes in with the global warming crowd on this one, and is likely to pander to those interests. We will probably see more liberal management in the Dept. of Interior and other branches of government. Look for more public lands to be locked up.
Energy - Again, he opposes drilling in ANWR, and probably other places, which is a pretty short sighted and self defeating policy, going along with the greenies on this one.
Campaign finance - he is directly responsible for screwing this up big time by restricting free speech. It is worse than ever now. If this is an example of logic, he doesn't have any.
Entitlement programs - I don't honestly know what he thinks of universal health care proposals and other things, but if immigration is any indication of how he deals with entitlements, etc., I would not be very optimistic here as well. I am willing to listen to anyone that has evidence to the contrary.
Lastly, I have to admit that beyone policy, actually near the top of my list, is his temperament and personality. He is full of himself, and I am tired of his nitpicking and trashing his own party ever since he got to Washington, and making backroom deals with Feingold, Kennedy, etc. His time should be past. He is better than Democrats, no doubt in my mind, but he is a far cry from conservative. He stiffs conservatives, until now, he is claiming to be one, that is a big switch. He wouldn't even appear at CPAC in past years, but he does now of course. Where is the straight talk, if he doesn't like them last year, why does he suddenly like them this year, and is now claiming to be Mr. Conservative.
