He did.
Starting his first day in office McCain has been Goldwater on the budget. He has pushed, sponsored or voted for countless attempts for a Balanced Budget Amendment and he has made fighting earmarks a signature issue. He has never had an earmark. Never.
He was a primary sponsor of the Line Item Veto in 1996 which was later struck down in the Supreme Court.
McCain is a straight line fiscal conservative.
Now, would you care to discuss your Senators?
Seems like he had another thing struck down by the courts lately!!!!! Oh yea!!! the little thingy about free speech. John McCain is no consrevative!!!!
“McCain is a straight line fiscal conservative.”
Massive illegal immigration is a “tax” on the American people resulting in excessive taxes and spending and reduced wages for the law abiding tax payers.
There is nothing “fiscally conservative” about his contradictory positions.
It would be an easy argument to consider him a Domestic Enemy of the the Constitution, except no one has the guts to say it because of his POW service. But given his stance on Illegal Immigration and his unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform; if it walks like a duck...