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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


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

The dems have seriously dropped off the left end of the board if they are even making McCain look conservative!


41 posted on 08/19/2009 4:17:10 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: cva66snipe

Legislated Term Limits!!


42 posted on 08/19/2009 4:18:43 PM PDT by Postman
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To: TomGuy

Legislated Term Limits


43 posted on 08/19/2009 4:20:24 PM PDT by Postman
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To: eCSMaster

Once an A$$hole
Always an a$$hole.

No doubt Hannity will spend hours with him and have endless drivel just because he has an “r” behind his name. Not a rino he doesn’t love, but then talks all that “righteous B.S.”

Hannity did that very same thing with Romney this afternoon ....having Romney fast talk the glorious helth care he established in Mass a too sh.ts. You could tell Romney was trying to do a “fast sell” on something that turned out tbe be a disaster .. his disaster. He was animated and talking hunnerd mile an hour. Hannity had shivers up his leg .. wanted to know why the Feds couldn’t something as wonderful

Idiots amongst us.


44 posted on 08/19/2009 4:31:11 PM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Every time he’s up for re-election he starts making conservative noises. Nothing new here.


45 posted on 08/19/2009 4:45:08 PM PDT by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Postman
Legislated Term Limits!!

I originally wasn't for it. We would loose some good leaders. But the damage being done by career politicians can no longer be ignored. But this would require a Constitutional Amendment. Another way might be to simply demand the congressional retirement program be limited or greatly reduced if not entirely eliminated. That could be done in congress without an amendment needed. Pressure from taxpayers could force this happen.

BYW I wonder why Teddy K is being allowed to remain in the senate if he is no longer capable of being there and likely never will be again?

Third rule should be when Congress is not in session the members should return to their residence in their home state. Many haven't actually lived in their States likely in decades. Washington, DC should not be their residence. These are again rules congress can make.

46 posted on 08/19/2009 4:58:19 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: rabscuttle385

LOL! Ain’t it the truth?


47 posted on 08/19/2009 5:10:50 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: woweeitsme
quite honestly, McCain has usually been a fiscal conservative.

I agree with that. It's so freaking annoying that the one chance he had to really be a fiscal conservative (torpedo the 2008 bailout bill), he dropped the ball.
48 posted on 08/19/2009 5:38:34 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
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To: Lucky9teen
That graphic was so typical of our County GOP headquarters before Sarah was on the ticket. They couldn't give away McCain lawn signs. Once Sarah was on board, we couldn't keep them in stock.

Same with the volunteers. Before Sarah, there were only 2-3 people other than the paid staff working the phone banks. After Sarah, we had every phone going to the extent that there were only 2-3 phones vacant as new volunteers walked in.

49 posted on 08/19/2009 6:10:46 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: TomGuy

You’re right. I forgot Graham just got re-elected.

Better luck next time.


50 posted on 08/19/2009 6:15:11 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: Voter62vb

Let us not be railroaded into a choice of soggy cracker or Soros Sock puppet.
+++++++++++=

Well said - funny and salient.


51 posted on 08/19/2009 6:17:11 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try TRAITORS.))
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To: rabscuttle385

Great cartoon.

Just go away, Mr. McCain.


52 posted on 08/19/2009 6:25:09 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of D & R globalist power brokers? How 'bout HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY? It's a state of mind!)
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To: rabscuttle385
I'll kiss helen thomas before voting for that two faced back stabbing SOB again.

If the (R) top dogs allow mcloonatic anywhere near the presidential election again, they have successfully committed suicide as a national party.

53 posted on 08/19/2009 6:27:39 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: GeronL

“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.”

That was basically Ron Paul’s ‘border stance’ for years. Not that I disagree in theory, but congress, one white house after another and BAD court rulings have changed that prospect. There’s not a municipality in the entire country that seems to be able to cut them off without being sued out of their minds.


54 posted on 08/19/2009 6:31:35 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of D & R globalist power brokers? How 'bout HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY? It's a state of mind!)
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To: woweeitsme

Not only immigration

I still have hopes that on CapNTax he may abandon the medieval darkness and come into the light.


55 posted on 08/19/2009 6:34:43 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: rabscuttle385

If there was EVER a senator that needs to retire...

Go away.


56 posted on 08/19/2009 6:38:21 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: rabscuttle385
I`ll never vote for that piece of s#it again.
57 posted on 08/19/2009 7:17:29 PM PDT by nomad
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To: cva66snipe

“.....That and voters defunding the party including RNC and only send donations to individual candidates.”

Precisely, and that’s the way we do it here at the ranch.


58 posted on 08/19/2009 8:33:08 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: woweeitsme; rabscuttle385

He votes against pork most of the time, I’ll give him that. Good for you Johnny.

But he was also famously against Bush’s first tax cut and had to make up some BS excuse to explain his opposition away when the time came to run for President.

And he’s worked with democrats on many programs to enlarge the federal government and waste taxpayers dollars.


59 posted on 08/20/2009 2:13:17 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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