John McCain scored a very solid 94%, one of the most conservative records in 2007 when it comes to the economy, yet some here have the audacity to call him a liberal.
Obama and Clinton scored 0%, Elizabeth Dole in the 80’s, Orrin Hatch 53%, and Ted Kennedy 14%.
McCain didn’t qualify to be ranked; he failed to vote often enough. The 94% represents only his record on those few votes he bothered to cast.
“John McCain scored a very solid 94%, one of the most conservative records in 2007 when it comes to the economy, yet some here have the audacity to call him a liberal”
Worthy of note!
McCain is wrong on a few ‘hot-button’ issues (we all know waht they are) but he is very good on spending and his health care and tax plans are very much in line with free market Phil Gramm / Tom Coburn conservative policies.
>> yet some here have the audacity to call him a liberal.
The wallet is a privilege of liberty which is not an audacious issue.
I for one was surprised at Juan’s rating.
He is still a Liberal in the areas that I knew him to be.
There are 20,000,000 reasons to not support McAmnesty.
He is against drilling ANWAR.
He is speaking to LaRaza, a racist group wanting to return the northwest to Mexico.
He is opposed to freespeech.
He is a Socialist in other areas, just not redistribution of wealth, at least not yet.
I do not trust him to keep his word.
There are other issues besides "the economy." Ron Paul got an "A" grade from the National Taxpayers Union and posted third place in 2006, and yet some here have the audacity to call him a liberal.
For Paul, it was his stance towards the global threat of Islamic terrorism, for McCain it's his stance towards illegal immigration and amnesty.
At least when Ron Paul wants to bring the troops home, he wants to secure our borders with the money instead - noting that "border security is national security" - while McCain gripes about the "goddamned fence" and promotes amnesty measures.
This Club for Growth rating is encouraging - let's hope McCain doesn't drop in the future for the sake of "bipartisanship."
McCain must have had one of his campaign workers doing the counting. How could he score 94% when he FAVORS amnesty for up to 20 million illegal aliens; when he FAVORS embryo stem cell research; when he is AGAINST the marriage amendment; when he co-sponsors a bill with a Democrat that violates the first amendment on free speech (McCain-Finegold Campaign Reform Act); when he believes Al Gore and on global warming and FAVORS an embargo on production industries on greehouse emissions; when he is AGAINST keeping our terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay; when he is AGAINST waterboarding to obtain needed intelligence from terrorists; and when he is AGAINST drilling and exploration in the Alaskan ANWR and in our offshore waters in the Gulf of Mexico where Cuba and China are currently driling and taking away untold milllons of barrels of oil?
If you think he is a conservative I would like to hear your definition of that word. Obama has ‘Audacity’ as he writes in his book. And yes I do have the audacity to call McCain a liberal; his best friend in the Senate is Joe Lieberman who is like McCain with only one conservative position: support for the war in Iraq. Otherwise, they are both like McCain’s other buddy, Russ Feingold; and both of those buddies are Jewish liberals.