McCain has many traditionally Republican views. He has a strong conservative voting record on pro-life and free trade issues, favors private social security accounts, and opposes an expanded government role in health care.
McCain also supports school vouchers, capital punishment, mandatory sentencing, and welfare reform.
He is generally regarded as a hawk in foreign policy.
When a questioner said, "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded, "Make it a hundred. We've been in Japan for 60 years, we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so.
That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.
That's fine with me. I hope it will be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping, and motivating people every single day."
Nevertheless, McCain has supported liberal legislation opposed by his own party and has been called a "maverick" by certain members of the American media.
Arizona Republic columnist and RealClearPolitics contributor Robert Robb, using a formulation devised by William F. Buckley, describes McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning that while McCain usually tends towards conservative positions, he is not "anchored by the philosophical tenets of modern American conservatism." McCain declined to sign the pledge put forth by Americans for Tax Freedom not to impose any new taxes or increase existing taxes.
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Feb 15, 2008
McCain's Positions on Specific Issues
Straight talk from Senator McCain: More wars to come
This video is from CNN Newsroom, broadcast January 27, 2008.
Speaking in Polk City, Florida, U.S. Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) pledges expansion of access to health care for soldiers injured physically and psychologically not only in the current war, but in wars he says are sure to follow.
Need I say more?
Sphere: Related ContentFeb 14, 2008
What a Day!
The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether federal prosecutors were ousted for political reasons.
Angry Republicans boycotted the vote and staged a walkout.
Then there's this:
Republican campaign dropout Mitt Romney agreed Thursday to endorse Sen. John McCain and asked his national convention delegates to swing behind the party front-runner, according to officials familiar with the decision.
President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite — and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel — by intercepting it just before it re-enters the atmosphere, officials said Thursday.
How's it going in your World?
Feb 12, 2008
Elections '08 Really Heating Up
Looks like Obama made a clean sweep of the last 4 voting polls. Hillary is having fits...who knows who will win this one?
Tlperkins said...
Hillary has lost 8 straight competitions as of today.
The American people have spoken.
How do I explain the states she has won?
The Northeast and California represent the power centers of the country and the residents of those states are dominated by them.
I point to “under the covers” institutionalized racism in the Northeast specifically.
In Main St. America people are fundamentally good and racism is either there or it isn’t.
The American people have spoken.
They want change and they don’t care if it comes from an inexperienced (46 years old, LOL) black man.
Travell Perkins.com
Herb Urban said...
Between the Illinois State Legislature and the U.S. Senate, Obama has more experience as a legislator than Hillary.
How she counts her years as a corporate lawyer, member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, and first lady of Arkansas and the U.S. as Presidential preparation escapes me.
She is a policy wonk, I will grant her that.
But her so called experience is vastly overstated in my view.
Jan 28, 2008
Kennedy Will Endorse Obama In Blow to Clinton
The Kennedy endorsement was much sought after by the Democrats but Kennedy has chosen to endorse Obama because Bill and Hillary just pissed him off by their campaign tactics particularly comments by the couple and their surrogates in South Carolina that seemed to carry racial overtones. Kennedy expressed his frustrations directly to the former president, but to no avail.
Yes, the former president is still a "rock star" in Democratic circles however he is doing the presidential prospects of his wife a good deal more harm than good.
I suppose it’s now safe to say that the days of sailing together on Nantucket Sound during the Clintons’ Martha’s Vineyard vacations are over.
Jan 26, 2008
Obama wins in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary here on Saturday, defeating his Democratic rivals and emerging with a win that puts him at rough parity with Hillary Clinton as they barrel toward the Super Tuesday primaries.
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Dec 31, 2007
HUCKABUST?
From NBC’s Mark Murray, NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum
DES MOINES, Iowa -- In what has to be one of the most bizarre political press conferences in recent times, Huckabee told a packed room of reporters that he was pulling a negative TV ad his campaign had produced to respond to Romney's attacks.
"The cookie cutter approach says you get hit, you hit back,” Huckabee told the reporters, adding, “I think that the Washington way often has been effective. But there may be a better way, and I hope that we can prove that's exactly the case."
Then -- via a laptop projector -- he showed the ad anyway to the several dozen journalists in the room.
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Dec 29, 2007
Has Fox News Excluded Ron Paul?
December 28, 2007 10:39 pm EST
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.
“Given Ron Paul’s support in New Hampshire and his recent historic fundraising success, it is outrageous that Dr. Paul would be excluded,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “Dr. Paul has consistently polled higher in New Hampshire than some of the other candidates who have been invited.”
Snyder continued, “Paul supporters should know that we are continuing to make inquiries with Fox News as to why they have apparently excluded Dr. Paul from this event.”
SOURCE: Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Jesse Benton, 703-248-9115
Leave it to "faux' news and their newspeaking journalists....
