Posted on 01/12/2008 9:44:47 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.
The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:
- McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
- McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
- McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
- McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
- McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link)....
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Hank
Holdonnow is correct again....
Thank you my friend.
McCain is out for McCain, pure and simple. . .he is in love with himself. . .
ROFLOL!! That’s great! Mallard Filmore?
Hank
McCain TRUTH PING.
more on mccain’s lie about earmarks.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/31/an_old_earmark_of_mccains_surf.html
More on McCain
Caption this pic.
Wow...stupid me. I actually believed that being pro-life was the ONE are where McCain was reliably conservative!
Thanks for disabusing me of that notion. It’s now official. He’s a comprehensive swine.
Hank
“He’s a comprehensive swine.”
comprehensive - good word!
comprehensive RINO
comprehensively pro-amensty.
BTW, go read up on Santorum’s comments on McCain, his mindset is like a New York Times editorial board, not a conservative.
“I told you already, Ted.....NOT WHILE I’M IN FRONT OF A CAMERA!”
Hank
Then there is this - McCain’s courting the Log Cabin gays:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_March_28/ai_60948022
“McCain’s strategy is the one we have been advocating for years,” says Tafel. “He is preaching tolerance and reaching out to the middle of the electorate while keeping the religious right on the fringes. It has reinforced our message that gay rights are much more in the political mainstream than the GOP has ever under.”
McCain has certainly been blest in his opposition.
The only mistake in the article is not recognizing the fact that you can’t be both a McInsane supporter and a conservative.
This cartoon should be on billboards.
The Republican field is one of the worst in recent memory. Most of these guys have loads baggage and significant support for legislation detrimental to conservatives.
Are these the best the GOP has to offer? If so, the GOP is in real trouble.
The GOP didn’t listen before the 06 election and they got zapped. Maybe we will have to try to survive a term of Obama or Clinton and make that WH occupant a one-termer.
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