Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] What's wrong with McCain?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Vern Green wrote:

> Sure McCain has been a maverick, and that might be interesting and even 
> admirable to a liberal, but to the people that McCain has to win over, 
> one person's maverick is another person's backstabber.

That was my point -- that he wasn't a mainstream Republican.


> Take the border fence. McCain fought that tooth and nail. This angered a 
> great many conservativs who want the fence built. His angry outbursts 
> about the subject are still well remembered.

That's one good thing about him -- the fence won't do anything and it's a 
waste of time and money.  It's a trick to make people think the government 
is trying to keep the "illegals" out, but the only real way to stop them 
is by stopping employers from hiring them; the Republicans won't do that.


> While he claims to be a fiscal conservative, he did not back Bush's tax 
> cuts. You might not like the cuts, but it is fundamental to 
> conservatives.

Another good thing about him and a deep defect in "conservatives."  So now 
conservatism has a new meaning:  You spend money that you don't have 
building debt higher and higher and higher.  Right?  That's the new 
conservative way?  Well maybe McCain is more the old-school kind of 
conservative who believes in taking in enough in taxes to pay for 
government spending.  Isn't that what conservatives used to stand for: 
Spending less and keeping a balanced budget?  Conservatives now stand for 
what I would call "fiscal irresponsibility," or maybe "fiscal 
recklessness" is a better term.


> Of course if you were just coming on the scene today and did not know of 
> McCain before, then you would not know these things. He has been very 
> good at covering up his changes in position on these issues.

We might not agree on what is good/bad about McCain but we agree on why 
the conservatives don't like him.

Mike

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