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McCain: Maverick no more? [just in time for 2010!]
CQ Politics / MSNBC ^ | 2009-08-19

Posted on 08/19/2009 1:54:51 PM PDT by 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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 111th; az2010; falseconservatives; falserepublicans; maverickmccain; mcbama; mccain; mccainantipalin; mccaintruthfile; mcinsane; mclame; mcqueeg; mcrino; pretender; rino; rinoparty; rinos4obama
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To: rabscuttle385

He’s a freaking idiot, that McCain.


21 posted on 08/19/2009 2:18:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Liberals have no integrity, character, or shame.)
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To: woweeitsme
Your frickin’ kidding right?
22 posted on 08/19/2009 2:23:50 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: rabscuttle385

Not to put too fine a point on it but McCain can bite me.


23 posted on 08/19/2009 2:30:28 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / Declaration of Independence - 5th sentence)
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To: rabscuttle385

Uh, John, do you understand WHY we voted for you last time?


24 posted on 08/19/2009 2:35:33 PM PDT by This_far
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To: woweeitsme

Good analysis.


25 posted on 08/19/2009 2:47:52 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: rabscuttle385
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26 posted on 08/19/2009 2:51:38 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hey Comrade 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Sigh, could you just imagine how strong and principled our republic could be if every year was an election year?
27 posted on 08/19/2009 2:51:49 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

28 posted on 08/19/2009 2:52:23 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I don't care if Obama was blue, it's his AGENDA & PLAN to destroy America & The Constitution I hate)
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To: TomGuy

I think he can be knocked off by a real pub in AZ. I wouldn’t say the same thing about Snowe or Collins when either of them is up for re-election. Graham and a couple others can be knocked off, including Voinovich. Crist will probably appoint a RINO, and hopefully s/he can be knocked off.


29 posted on 08/19/2009 2:56:00 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: cva66snipe

It would be a salute to Sarah Palin if AZ dumps Juan. I would like to see that. AZ has a good number of able pubs. It’s time for Juan to take that long walk to the political ash heap, and take his slimebag daughter with him.

But I like Cindy McCain and I wish her well. I think she’s the real deal.


30 posted on 08/19/2009 3:00:38 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: bustinchops
Graham and a couple others can be knocked off

Graham was just reelected in 2008. That is the problem with incumbency: once they get in, it is next to impossible to wedge them out.
31 posted on 08/19/2009 3:11:12 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: eCSMaster

Now we get to see once again how stupid AZ Republicans are


32 posted on 08/19/2009 3:43:31 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: woweeitsme

He is for amnesty for 40 million illegals, that is not fiscally conservative by any stretch of the imagination


33 posted on 08/19/2009 3:44:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: rabscuttle385
He may not be a maverick, but he's still a Weevil:


Evil McWeevil

34 posted on 08/19/2009 3:45:18 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: spiderfern

I have a good way to clear up this immigration problem.....

No free healthcare, no free schools, no welfare of any kind for illegal aliens.

That will probably fix more than 80% of the problem right there.


35 posted on 08/19/2009 3:46:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: woweeitsme
Well, quite honestly, McCain has usually been a fiscal conservative.

"Fiscal conservative" is a dearly beloved phrase among wealthy Californians, where warm spit is considered the height of political sophistication, because they think they can't be pinned down.

However (and quite honestly), "fiscal conservatives" have never met a socialist policy they didn't like.

It's merely a backdoor approach. Vote in socialist policies, and then once they're law, appropriate the funding secondarily, behind the curtain.

You want to see the results of "fiscal conservative" policies? Just take a look at California State finances.

36 posted on 08/19/2009 3:51:03 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: 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.

The congress needs ones like him. Ones not afraid to do what is right and required.

37 posted on 08/19/2009 4:10:02 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: woweeitsme
His immigration bill is the starting point for the one about to go to committee next month.
38 posted on 08/19/2009 4:11:43 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: rockinqsranch
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.

That's what it will take. That and voters defunding the party including RNC and only send donations to individual candidates.

39 posted on 08/19/2009 4:13:11 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: bustinchops

Agreed


40 posted on 08/19/2009 4:14:44 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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