I believe Senator McCain also voted to continue the DREAM filibuster.
I don’t understand FReepers who continue to attack the senator even when he makes the right votes. It makes no sense. If a senator is going to be forever scorned and cut off from any chance of conservative support for past mistakes, what’s the incentive to change? It’s not like Senator McCain is going anywhere for the next six years. I’d much rather retire him at the end of his next term as a conservative ally rather than as a RINO quisling. We’ve got plenty of them—no reason to encourage more to join the ranks of the Maine witches.
Simple. We don't trust him.
And we have good reason not to trust him. His political history defines him as an opportunist who will turn on a dime and attack conservatives if there is a political advantage to be had for McCain.
In the meantime, I'm happy to have his support. But I dare not count on it.
“I don’t understand FReepers who continue to attack the senator even when he makes the right votes.”
I agree with you. They claim they attack McCain because he is not conservative on some issues, then when he IS standing up for conservative issues, they attack him, applaud the liberals’ attack on him, while the same FReepers say nothing about the traitor Republicans who voted with the Democrats. It does make you wonder...
From the article: “Earlier in the week, he (McCain) was observed in the unseemly act of publicly gloating on the Senate floor over his success in killing a massive spending bill. He’s also been raising hurdles to the ratification of the Obama administration’s nuclear arms treaty with Russia. At the same time, he led the opposition Saturday to repealing the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military - taking on Lieberman, who led the other side. “
Senator McCain changes his mind to benefit himself. Example: He was for the repeal of DADT before he was against it because it benefited him to do so. Now that there is no cost whatsoever in being against it, he's against it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202588.html
Another good example: McCain was for amnesty before he was against it, and will certainly be for it again before everything is said and done.
Changing your mind because you've reconsidered the issue and are now looking at it from another stance is fine. Saying you are changing it simply to make political points is dishonest.
The stunning regularity with which Senator McCain changes his mind in ways that immediately benefit himself indicates that he is in it for himself, not for voters.
It’s not like Senator McCain is going anywhere for the next six years. I’d much rather retire him at the end of his next term as a conservative ally rather than as a RINO quisling. We’ve got plenty of them—no reason to encourage more to join the ranks of the Maine witches.
Even the "Maine witches" as you call them (lol) never said this:
"I believe my party has gone astray," McCain said yesterday, singling out GOP stands on environmental issues and racial set-asides."
I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy," he said.
Senator John McCain, Boston Herald, April 2004
I don’t understand FReepers who continue to attack the senator even when he makes the right votes. It makes no sense.
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Did you see his pathetic run for the presidency? I did! He’s a RINO. His quote: “Not to fear Obama” was a gimme. I don’t understand your kind.