[ThreeYearLurker]

Lets See:

Bush Strong on Defense=McCain Strong on Defense

Bush Solid Pro Life=McCain Solid Pro Life

Bush Spendaholic<McCain anti-pork

McCain-Feingold=Bush signed it into law

Bush Conservative Judges=McCain voted for Bork, and all conservative judges, say what you will about the Gang of 14, but if it wasn’t for that, Owen, Brown, Kavenaugh, and Pryor would not have been confirmed.

Bush Open Borders=McCain Open Borders

Bush Namby Pamby Environmentalism= McCain the same.

The only issue that Bush is more conservative than McCain is tax cuts, but McCain will vote to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Because Bush spent like a drunken sailor, and McCain is fiscally prudent, McCain is more conservative than Bush. Tell me where I am wrong.

[rob777]

"Because Bush spent like a drunken sailor, and McCain is fiscally prudent, McCain is more conservative than Bush. Tell me where I am wrong."


While I may not be crazy about McCain, you are right here. After two terms of Bush and his wild spending "Compassionate Conservatism", the single best point in McCain's favor is his record of fiscal restraint. The whole premise of this thread could be turned around to ask McCain detractors why he would be any worse than Bush. Bush clearly ran as a "Big Government" Conservative and it was obvious that he intended to redefine conservatism, yet there was hardly a peep out of most conservatives. I see no consistency here.

[Checkers]

“Because Bush spent like a drunken sailor, and McCain is fiscally prudent, McCain is more conservative than Bush.”

A Bush-basher who loves McCain. Color me unsurprised.

[samtheman]

Your post #754 is a good summary of the situation. Thanks.

[Vegas Phyl]

You are right, and I support McCain, with similar logic.

[Age of Reason]

Well said.

[JasonC]

You aren't wrong. But those disappointed in how left Bush has governed cut him imaginary slack ages ago, and are in denial about the role of their movement version of ideological conservatism in the modern republican party. They wanted to believe that Bush's strayings were personal quirks and mistakes and would all go away as soon as his term was up. They weren't, they were nosing out the political center in present US politics - in fact, headed there but not going far enough to actually arrive.

They just don't like this reality, so they pretend it isn't real or that it is all some snow job. It is making them irrelevant in national politics.