02/04/2008 (10:48 am)
McCain, the Full Record
Or, well, as complete as I’ve seen. Bill Quick at Daily Pundit produced a fairly exhaustive list of John McCain’s anti-conservative stances from the past 7 years. As he says, the complete record would be book-length.
Quick makes a reasonably convincing case that McCain is a Democrat waiting to happen, and I think he’s correct. He credits Ace of Spades HQ with this observation (but doesn’t provide a link to the specific post in which it occurs):
I remain convinced that had Mr. Irrelevant, Jim Jeffords, not jumped, and had his moment of glory for staging the one-man Senate coup, John McCain would have done so. And the GOP would not now be considering nominating him as the standard bearer.
So, if McCain can convince the country to elect him President, he’ll have Jim Jeffords, and his desire to beat McCain to the punch, to thank.
Which doesn’t make me feel any better about the prospect of a McCain nomination.
I’m soliciting comments regarding a “Draft Newt” third-party movement for the fall. If anyone has a better suggestion, let’s hear it. (I thought about “Draft Fred,” but sadly the party has already spoken on that topic.)
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4 Comments »
Comment by darkhorse
Um…is McCain a Democrat waiting to happen, or is he veering left because he’s mad at Bush? You can’t have it both ways. If the latter (a position which you’ve taken), that should be done when McCain takes the oath of office next year.
How are McCain’s congressional ACU ratings compared to your favorite Democrat targets?
This looks like a case of “If you don’t have your back shoved up against the drop-dead end of the conservative spectrum, you must be a liberal”. Go ahead and draft Newt for an independent run you know he can’t win so you can take votes away from McCain – but come right out and admit that you’d rather have someone far left of McCain in office just so you can throw your sour grapes at the man.
This is Kooky thinking, and not far from what the over-conservative bloggers have accused McCain of doing – not being nice to his fellow Republicans.
Comment by Phil
“He’s veering left because he’s mad at Bush” is a possibility I mentioned once, not a position I’ve taken. I thought it possible that the tax cut opposition in 2001 was personal. I still think McCain took losing the nomination in 2000 personally, and possibly took pleasure in crossing Bush (see? I can have it both ways, if both are true). But I think McCain has been on a steady leftward course since 1997; that is a position I’ve taken.
Also:
This looks like a case of “If you don’t have your back shoved up against the drop-dead end of the conservative spectrum, you must be a liberal”.
I didn’t say he was a liberal waiting to happen. I said he was a Democrat waiting to happen. As a Democrat, he’d be a hawk, and pretty far to the right of any Democrats currently in the Senate (but not to the right of Zell Miller, I daresay.) But still a Democrat.
Jim, whatever you think, I genuinely believe McCain would be a disaster as President, and I believe he’ll take delight in dismissing the conservative wing of the Republican party (which is 2/3 of the party.)
Comment by Beth
I believe he’ll take delight in dismissing the conservative wing of the Republican party (which is 2/3 of the party.)
After this little jihad on him, what the hell does he “owe” you? Nothing. I’m a conservative, and I’m pissed. People like you are destroying the conservative movement.
Fortunately, McCain is a conservative at his core. He’s not going to change his principles just to “get back” at the Coulter wing of the party; just don’t expect him to kowtow to any demands.
And by the way, 2/3 of the party? LOL. Not even close. Maybe ONE third. Do your homework.
Comment by Phil
John McCain has rather deliberately been poking his finger in conservatives’ eyes for at least the last 7 years, and taken delight in it. Just about everybody knows it. So I don’t see that he’s concerned about what he owes me, or any other conservative. Quite the contrary; he long since decided that he couldn’t care less what I think.
That being so, perhaps you need to point your “who’s destroying the conservative movement” shotgun in a different direction.
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