You mean open-borders McCain, the guy who abhors the 1st, 2nd, 9th, & 10th Amendments, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Keating 5, & a guy w/ a temper comparable to the mouth of Howard Dean? The John McCain who said "Thank God & Greyhound he's gone" when a patriot named Pat Buchanan left the GOP due to its sustained leftward/internationalist shift?
Some conservative, alright. (GAG!)
Bottom line: there's a big difference between authoring the assault on the First Amendment and supporting it.
Besides, I'm not being asked to vote for Zell Miller, am I?
McCain is nothing but a RINO who panders to the Liberal media. Once you recognize that simple reality, you'll have that much-vaunted credibility of which you speak.
And one more thing, sport: don't spam me with the same bullcrap on two different threads. Y'got that?
Ha! Nice reply -- too bad you didn't actually DO it.
Apparently you didn't bother to read ANY of the answers. I waited to see you give an intelligent response to what parts you disagree with and why but that was too hard, eh? I guess your “rebuttal” when you don’t get the “answers” you expect is too simply IGNORE the facts and just continue the SAME claims regardless of what his record actually is.
I went over your little questionnaire in detail and gave you McCain's EXACT position on EVERY "conservative" issue YOU wanted (war on terror, abortion, etc.), and indeed, he was on the "right" side of 80% of the questions YOU asked about. That's not my opinion, that's his actual tally on your own criteria sheet. The big sore spot was immigration, where McCain is an open-borders idiot (just like Bush, I might add)
You say McCain "abhors" the 2nd amendment. The people who really do "abhor" the 2nd amendment -- like the Brady campaign -- CERTAINLY don't agree or they would have endorsed McCain. They've endorsed plenty of gun-grabbers who got A ratings from the anti-gun groups but they gave McCain an "F" rating. He voted against anti-gun bills 86%-100% of the time. Of course to realize that, you'd actually have to READ my post after demanding I give you all that information. How dare the facts get in the way of your “McCain hates all guns” rhetoric, eh?
You bashing McCain for being on the Council of Foreign Relations is another example of other “conservatives” doing the same thing as McCain and getting a “free pass” here from the hate McCain crowd. Oh, I guess it’s okay for Zig Zag Zell Miller to work his butt off to sponsor and pass McCain-Feingold as long as he didn’t “write” the bill. It’s okay for him to vote for hate crimes too, right? We’ll only denounce him for it if he changes his name to “John McCain” I guess.
A lot of your rhetoric is simply baseless (“McCain hates the 9th and 10th amendment, McCain has a mouth like Howard Dean”). As for McCain’s statement about Buchanan’s move to get in bed with Ross Perot’s deformed party, I agreed with McCain and apparently about 99% of other GOP voters also did. If wanted to join the like of Lenora Fuliani, good riddance. Perhaps you might want to look at how many votes Buchanan got after hanging out with Fulani and joining a pro-abortion party while complaining the GOP wasn’t pro-life enough.
You know the Arnold bots really love when you lump pro-life, pro-family, and pro-gun people in with true RINOs like Lincoln Chafee and Schwartzenegger. By calling ANYONE you dislike – regardless of their record – a “RINO”, then true RINOs get away scot free with their liberal records by dismissing their critics as being narrow-minded fools who will hate them no matter what their record is. In your case, it happens to be true.
Thanks for wasting my time by demanding a full list of all McCain’s “positions” when you had no plan to actually READ it in the event the facts conflicted with your “McCain is evil incarnate” stereotype. Next time, don’t waste my time by demanding “proof” you plan to ignore, okay?