Hey if it works. I do think there is a lot to vote for McCain.
1. He is committed to smaller government and the only tax on record that he has voted to increase is one on cigarettes. I don’t agree with sin taxes but this is a small thing in comparison to his other votes which I think most here would find admirable.
* A 2006 amendment to cut $74.5 million for various agriculture programs[17]
* A 2006 amendment to cut $6 million for sugarcane growers in Hawaii[18]
* A 2003 amendment to reduce funding for the Yazoo Basin Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi[19]
* A 2002 amendment to eliminate $2.5 million for coral reef mapping of the waters off the coast of Hawaii[20]
* A 1998 amendment to cut $78 million in projects from an emergency supplemental appropriations bill[21]
* A 1994 motion to kill an amendment to provide $40 million for the conversion of a New York City post office into an Amtrak train station[22]
* A vote against the 2003 Medicare prescription drug plan[23]
* A vote against the Farm Security Bill in 2002[24]
* A vote against the 2005 Highway Bill, one of only four senators to object to the pork-stuffed bill[25]
* A vote against providing Amtrak with an extra $550 million for the fiscal year 2007[26]
* A vote against $2 billion in milk subsidies[27]
* One of fifteen senators to vote for Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) amendment transferring $223 million for the “Bridge to Nowhere” to the repair of a Louisiana bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina.[28] Senator McCain was also one of only thirteen senators to vote for an amendment by Senator Coburn to eliminate $950,000 for a parking lot for the Joslyn Art Museum in Nebraska[29]
* A vote for welfare reform[30]
(* The above came from the Cato Institute)
2. He has strongly opposed special rights for sexual activists in employment and supports the marriage as being being a man and women. He believes that the legislature and the people not the courts should decide this issue.
3. He has been a consistent Pro-Life vote. There may be some who question his purity but his voting record shows someone who clearly believes in the Right to Life.
I think I’ll stop there. He does have black marks especially on immigration and campaign finance but for those who think he doesn’t have clear redeeming value other than the fact he is running against Obama should take a look with an unbiased eye. No one is saying McCain is perfect but the more I look at his record the more it becomes clear that he is more conservative than GW Bush especially on the key issue of government spending. Wouldn’t be to nice to reclaim some credibility on that issue as a party?