Fri 30 May 2008
While I’m often happy to point out Republicans who act like Democrats *cough* Bush *cough* or Republicans who were Democrats *cough* Sonny *cough*, McCain is no Democrat. Sure he has had issues with our party – but that just makes him smarter than those of us who actually supported the man who grew government by more than LBJ, mis-managed a war into near defeat, and sullied the concepts of limited government and conservatism with his nonsense of “compassionate conservatism”.
Yes, many people disagreed with McCain’s attempt at immigration reform. Many Republicans wonder about his position on man-made global warming and the need for carbon rationing. Many conservatives are still angry over his gutting of free-speech via campaign finance “reform”.
But John McCain has been right on a whole lot of issues where the grassroots Republicans have been wrong. McCain said we didn’t have enough troops and that Don Rumsfeld was mis-managing the mission in Iraq. McCain was right, the grassroots were wrong.
McCain said we should not have tax cuts without also cutting spending. Bush, Hastert and Frist spent like drunken sailors and the grassroots went silently along. McCain was right – the grassroots were wrong.
John McCain voted against the largest entitlement expansion since the Great Society. A massive entitlement program pushed by a (so-called) Republican President and enacted by a (so-called) Republican Congress. McCain was right – the GOP leadership was wrong.
John McCain spent five hellish years in a Vietnamese prison camp being tortured by the VietCong and their Chinese enables. Yet while in Congress, John McCain voted to establish normalized trade relations with Vietnam and China and bring both of those countries the miracles of Capitalism.
John McCain may not be the most conservative person the GOP could have nominated, but he is a hell of a lot better than the guy we nominated in 2000 and 2004, and a whole lot more conservative than the folks who were running Congress for the past 10 years.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
You’re right, McCain is no Democrat.
He just said he might abandon the GOP in 2001.
And that he was considering becoming Kerry’s running mate in 2004.
But hey, he’s no Democrat.
Funny, I don’t remember *cough* Bush *cough* doing that.
Fact is, this bumper sticker is hilarious. If it didn’t say certain things, I might slap it on my car.