McCain: Maverick no more? [just in time for 2010!]

CQ Politics / MSNBC ^ | 2009-08-19

[rabscuttle385]

Ex-presidential candidate is siding more closely with GOP these days.

BY GREG GIROUX

WASHINGTON - He ran for president last year as a “maverick” Republican and had a high-profile meeting with Barack Obama after the election, but Arizona Sen. John McCain has been a staunch Republican vote since failing to win the White House.

In fact, McCain is siding with his party this year on closely divided votes with greater frequency than at any other period in his 23-year Senate career, according to a CQ analysis of Senate votes.

On votes that pitted most Democrats against most Republicans, McCain has sided with the consensus GOP position 95.4 percent of the time, a CQ-defined “party unity” score that would be the highest of his Senate career if it holds up for the remainder of the year.

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[Oldpuppymax]

I was gonna post something, but the cartoon says it all!!

[rabscuttle385]

You aren't fooling me, McLame. Not one bit!

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[Recovering Hermit]

Here he goes again.

[woweeitsme]

Well, quite honestly, McCain has usually been a fiscal conservative. All this idiocy that the Congress has been passing has been fiscally oriented.

Wait until immigration comes up again. Then we’ll see his true colors.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, three, four, .... times - shame on me.

Not this time McCain.

Is J.D. Hayworth running for the Senate seat?

[cva66snipe]

If Arizona Republicans vote him in again they are fools for doing so. It’s time to end all RINO political careers and clean out the United States Congress.

[what's up]

In 2001, the year after he lost the Republican presidential nomination to George W. Bush , McCain’s 67 percent party unity score was among the lowest in the Senate GOP Conference. In May of that year, after Vermont Sen. James M. Jeffords left the Republican Party and became an independent, McConnell said that McCain “has positioned himself increasingly to the left.”

I don't recall McCain ever saying anything nice about Pres. Bush.

I get the impression he really hated him with a passion.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

McCain/Kerry F the POWS/MIAS
McCain/Feingold F free speech
McCain/Kennedy F American Sovereignty
McCain/Gang of 14
McCain/Keating 5
McCain/Terrorist Bill of Rights
McCain/Gun Grabber
McCain/Does not like tax cuts

More?

[Voter62vb]

McCain is a liberal tool. He is a Sheehan for the left. Go sit at a table and wait for your media hairdresser, McCain.

The only reason you were even on the radar in the end was because of your running mate you mismanaged and betrayed.

Let us please pay immense attention to the primaries this next election. Let us not be railroaded into a choice of soggy cracker or Soros Sock puppet.

[rabscuttle385]

You forgot....

McCain/Lieberman/Warner “We love Al Gore”

and

McCain/Levin F the DoD

[TomGuy]

score that would be the highest of his Senate career

Translation:

Internal reelection polling shows his chances as being wobbly, so he tries to seduce the home state conservatives.

[STONEWALLS]

...that’s really a great cartoon!

[rabscuttle385]

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[throwback]

Guess those illegals haven’t gotten their voter registration cards in substantial numbers yet. Oh well, you can always pick lettuce for $50/hr John.

[Shimmer1]

One word: NEVER.

[spiderfern]

Heard Chris Simcox speak the other day at the Kingman Republican Men’s Club. Big turnout; he’s rather soft spoken, but advocates following the constitution and has his own 90-day Amnesty program, all illegals have 90 days to leave or we’ll escort them to the border.

[rabscuttle385]

Oh well, you can always pick lettuce for $50/hr John.

Meghan might end up doing that too, seeing as that's the only way *nudge nudge* she will ever be worth more than minimum wage.

[rockinqsranch]

“It’s time to end all RINO political careers and clean out the United States Congress.”

That’s right. Pull the chain and flush the Congressional bowl. If we have to pull that chain three or four times to clean ‘em all out, then we must do it, and install some sort of Tidy Bowl to make sure we don’t get another build up of scum like the one we have today.

[bamahead]

What a whore.