“McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil—but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.”
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So McCain is adopting a stronger American stance toward the Soviet Union (call it what it is) and Communist China.
Let’s repeat that for FReepers who think McCain’s not a conservative.
McQueeg still is not, nor ever has been, a conservative.
On foreign policy, he's a recycled cold warrior, which is standalone -- any number of former Democrats, JFK, Jackson, Nunn, Byrd in his younger days, Stu Symington, dozens of others, were cold warriors yet hardly conservative.
On domestic policy he's a phony ''budget hawk''. Show me a major pork bill that he hasn't voted for during his Senate tenure. There might be one or two in the past 20 years, but he's voted in favour of the vast majority of them. A conservative votes against these (or would have voted against these) on pure principle.
He's down-the-line for open borders, which only can be called a ''conservative'' view by those who still fantasise that GWB is a conservative.
Juan McQueeg -- Your Faux-Conservative Candidate in '08.