to turn it off.
That was my point -- that he wasn't a mainstream Republican.
but you were asking why Conservatives do not like him, you just answered your own question.
> 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.
I agree with you that internal enforcement needs to happen, but since NO ONE is going to do that Democrat or Republican, then what is left to us?
The majority of people agree that something has to be done. The backlash on McCain has a lot to do with his "Amnesty" bill. I know, I know, there is an argument whether it was amnesty or not, but the republican base thought it was and that is what matters to McCain.
> 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.
I disagree, you have it backwards. Conservatives were never about taxing people to pay for spending. They were more about controlling spending so people did not have to be taxed. Bush is not the conservative we all had hoped he was, but do not misrepresent what fiscal conservatives are.
> 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.
I agree with McCain on a great many issues, and even more now that he is running for President and has flipped on a lot of things he has said in the past. He voted against the tax cuts, but now he says they should be extended.
He had a bill that he tried to get through that was essentially amnesty, or at least a great many people thought it was. Many republicans feel that McCain introduced that bill to maintain the status quo, knowing that nothing would be passed. Ultimately, he now says he is against the very concepts that were part of his bill. That concerns me a little.
Ultimately a McCain presidency would be better than a Clinton presidency in my book, and probably better than an Obama presidency. I also believe that if he is the candidate, most republicans who do not like him will hold their nose and vote for him anyway.
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