Reagan was bi-partisan. But there’s a difference: he got the dems to vote for conservative policies. McCain gets himself to vote for democrat policies.
Reagan was working with a democrat congress headed by Tip O’Neil. The Republicans owned the Senate which gave him some leverage.
“Reagan was bi-partisan. But there’s a difference: he got the dems to vote for conservative policies. McCain gets himself to vote for democrat policies.”
Hopefully, his stellar decision of Mrs. Palin as VP is an overt sign of his Conservative bone fides and thereby will respect the bases’ absolutist position on border security.
I’m optimistic.
McCain is a gambler and I want to postulate that he took the long view on his career after his Keating Exoneration.
I think he truly realizes the evil he is up against.
His time in Hanoi clarified that issue for him.
I look at it this way, by being a pain in d’ arse to the GOP all these years, he has gained overall political muscle and will have more latitude in getting conservative, impactful change.
Like the FairTax, once the border is secure.
Plus, it may have been a survival technique in a den of democrat vipers; such as the Senate is these days when left is right, up is down, and cat are sleeping with dogs.
Like I said, I’m optimistic.
No matter what you say, has given GOP2.0 a rather spectacular set of legs.
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