If McCain isn’t a conservative then Reagan isn’t a conservative.
Reagan passed an amnesty bill.
Reagan raised taxes to lower the budget deficit.
Reagan raised social security taxes.
Reagan bugged out of Lebanon.
McCain has been the only candidate to be right about Iraq and the WoT. Heck, if the president followed his lead and did the surge six months earlier we would have kept both the house and Senate.
He opposed the tax cuts because they were fiscally irresponsible, nobody was proposing spending cuts to go along with it. McCain is the closest thing to a fiscally responsible Republican in this race.
I see from your profile you're probusiness. But the biz community liked the tax cuts, no? You don't agree that lower marginal rates are stimulative, and thus revenue-producing? I thought supply siders dont believe in spending offsets for tax cuts?