Lifetime - McCain 82.3%, Hayworth 97.6%
So 82.3% isn’t that bad is it? Sure 97.6% is better but is the 15% worth throwing someone under the bus that has vast amount of seniority/leverage built up on Capitol Hill?
Maybe a little more indepth analysis from other area would document your case better.
Now I’m not for McCain and didn’t support him when he ran against President Bush in 2000 nor in the Primary for 08 but did vote for him in the General.
John Sidney McCain’s views on illegal aliens are so over the top and spell only disaster for this country. During 2008 he acted feeble and senile and appeared not to want to win the election. Now his daughter and wife both pose with duct tape over their mouths. The man has turned into a joke.
As of 2007, 34 of McCain’s contemporaries in the US Senate have higher ratings than he does, which, in terms of conservatism, puts him in the bottom 15% of Republican senators. By the way, an 82.3 rating means he voted with the Democrats 17.7 percent of the time. While that alone may not be a compelling statistic, on which 17 percent of pending legislation will he vote with them in the future?
I think they get points for fairly routine conservative stances as well as stances on major issues. But McCain is horrible on the major issues of recent years: amnesy, cap and trade, even health care (now reaching across the aisle), and he has that idiotic notion that just doing something, or passing something is actually progress.
And his Gang of 14 involvement and other anti-conservative maneuvers don't show up in tallies of voting records.
McCain-Feingold.
McCain-Kennedy.
McCain-Leiberman.
McCain gang of 14.
McCain gets an “F” in defense of Liberty.
He is no conservative.