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And most importantly, McCain wants to cut wasteful pork barrel spending. Both Democrats want to expand government spending exponentially. I think the one area where McCain has the most credibility is on that issue, and I think it is the one issue where Republicans, and conservatives in particular, have lost faith in the Republican party, and politicians in general. I do think that John McCain is the one candidate who can really restore that trust. It seems to me like it is the congressional Republicans who are resisting any effort to restore the American people’s trust in Republicans as the vanguards of American tax dollars. It is the congressional Republicans who still just don’t get it, that they blew our trust. McCain gets that, and perhaps as president, he can drag the rest of them along, kicking and screaming.

And yet I just proved to you that he will increase the size of government by his support of Everything Global Warming and you still take him at his word?

Do you agree with him on his Amnesty plans for Illegal Aliens?

McCain was doing Bush’s bidding on Amnesty.
I do believe that wholeheartedly.

The Big Tent GOP believed they had been given a pass on illegal immigration. Bush has been playing footsie with Mexico since before he was elected, and no one said “boo”.

No one cared, because there were much bigger issues at hand.
Bush tested the waters many times, and got virtually no resistance.
In fact, everything he did seemed to get cheered on by the Right, as though he was Barack Obama blowing his nose at a rally.

So it is no wonder, being that Amnesty was part of Karl Rove’s Big Tent Strategy from Day One, that Bush eventually tried it. McCain was just his chosen man to do it. It was Bush passing the electoral torch to McCain. They were blindsided. Neither knew there would be the backlash there was.

I do believe that Amnesty was Bush’s issue, from the start.
I think McCain could take it or leave it. I don’t think he’ll revisit it again.
Unlike Bush, McCain has gotten the message that people want border security first.

BTW, you didn’t “prove” anything to me.
Bush, Obama, Clinton, any of them would sign cap and trade legislation.

We The People must defeat it in congress.
And that is where it will be defeated.

If such a thing ever got so far that only a presidential veto could stop it, then it is already too late.
But on matters of wasteful spending, where Bush has signed, time and time again, McCain would veto. That is where the president counts.

Don’t forget, McCain voted against Bush’s MediCare expansion. McCain said it was too expensive, too large a government expansion. Republicans all rallied around it, marveling at their own victory and what it would mean for votes in the next election.

Now, years later, Republicans have all come around late to McCain’s view. McCain has always battled expanding government spending. We can trust him to continue as president. I think he will be more Reagan than even Reagan was on this issue.