One More Time: McCain is NOT a moderate!

[realFedUp]

One more time: McCain IS NOT a moderate
by Joe in DC - 3/13/2006 09:39:00 AM

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/one-more-time-mccain-is-not-moderate.html

Now that the Republicans have started their presidential campaign, it's time to disabuse Americans of the notion that McCain is somehow a moderate. Paul Krugman today gives all the info. you'll ever need to prove that McCain is your run-of-the-mill hard-core right winger. I know, I know, the column is blocked to public access by "Times Select" but this passage is key:

So here's what you need to know about John McCain.

He isn't a straight talker. His flip-flopping on tax cuts, his call to send troops we don't have to Iraq and his endorsement of the South Dakota anti-abortion legislation even while claiming that he would find a way around that legislation's central provision show that he's a politician as slippery and evasive as, well, George W. Bush.

He isn't a moderate. Mr. McCain's policy positions and Senate votes don't just place him at the right end of America's political spectrum; they place him in the right wing of the Republican Party.

And he isn't a maverick, at least not when it counts. When the cameras are rolling, Mr. McCain can sometimes be seen striking a brave pose of opposition to the White House. But when it matters, when the Bush administration's ability to do whatever it wants is at stake, Mr. McCain always toes the party line.

Krugman also directs his readers to www.voteview.com which ranks McCain "as the Senate's third most conservative member." He's behind only Sununu and Kyl which means he's ahead of Brownback and Santorum. Think about that for a second.

[The Magistrate]

1. Hear Hear, Ma'am!

He is a mere rightist reptile of the worst water: no more, and no less.

[IsItJustMe]

2. Your absolutely right. He just plays one on TV.

Kerry should have never given McCain consideration for vice during the last election. This just lead to the false hood that McCain can be trusted.

[tatertop]

3. He's hard core bad news

he would continue down bush's path to hell

[Copperred]

4. McCain is a Lackey

[central scrutinizer]

5. racist

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml

He "hates gooks and will always hate gooks"

[IsItJustMe]

6. The conventional wisdom is that Repukes won't pick him to be their

candidate. I believe they will because not a majority will vote for the rest of them fools.

[realFedUp]

9. I think he will be their choice

because you can fool a lot of people at the same time.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. Unfortunately, National Journal disagrees.

They have him ranked as the 43rd most conservative member. And quite frankly, I trust NJ a lot more than just about any other source.

On edit: He's 24th on social issues, 47th on fiscal, and 46th on foreign affairs.

[Warpy]

8. Religious nutballs have bought the propaganda about that

and don't trust him because he's too moderate! This is one time when playing to the crowd has damaged him with the lunatic base of the GOP.

That is one reason he won't be the candidate in 2008. The snake handlers and tongue talkers will never accept him. They will accept Jebbie or Allen, and my guess is either of them can be the heir in 2008.

[Wetzelbill]

10. McCain sez some of the craziest stuff about Foreign Policy out there

I always thought he was a little more moderate, then I started paying attention to the guy's record and his opinions. Even then, I figured the guy might know something about FP anyway, even if he isn't all that moderate on other issues. Wrong! John McCain still believes that Vietnam is a good idea. There is no understating how stupid and radical that view is. He gets a lot of mileage from being a prisoner of war. Ok, you can't denigrate his being a POW, nor can you say he pops off and exploits it, but that doesn't mean he knows anything about FP. People tend to think that he does. I listened to him on Iraq quite a bit over the years. He's flat wrong on just about everything about it. Moreover, he's dangerous. In late 2002 and early '03, his comments about going to war in Iraq were a major disservice to the American people. His credentials as a veteran and POW gave a lot of credence to this administration's rhetoric at the time. His performance was absolutely shameful. During the '04 election, that fall, he told Bob Schieffer on FTN that we didn't know whether Saddam had anything to do with 9-11 or not. Ok, that was either a deliberate lie, or he was too dumb to know that wasn't true. Either way, his comments were unforgivable.

Not to mention, McCain is so blinded by ambition and wanting to be president that he has become an unrepentent suck up to the man, who's campaign attacked his own wife and daughter. I have no respect for that. No man with any dignity would do that. I don't care what his excuses are. If somebody's campaign, attacked my wife and stepdaughter, it would be a cold day in hell before I ever hugged that fucker or campaigned for him. McCain has no shame. At all. He cannot be trusted. And, he had the nerve to say that Barack Obama wasn't sincere about lobbyist reform. Ok, John, whatever. Coming from a weakling like McCain that has no credence whatsoever.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Well, the middle has moved to the right of Attila the Hun

[Wetzelbill]

12. Genghis Khan even

:)

[Wetzelbill]

13. how about a kick

:)

:kick: