Is this the same McCain who drove Republicans nuts<\/a> on campaign finance, the environment, taxes, torture, immigration and more? Where has McCain not crossed swords with his own party?<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd in a striking bit of irony, at the same time calling McCain<\/em> a liar.<\/p>\nAs it’s being used, the 90 percent figure, from Congressional Quarterly, is nonsensical. As Washington Post congressional reporter Jonathan Weisman explained, “The vast majority of those votes are procedural, and virtually every member of Congress votes with his or her leadership on procedural motions.”<\/p>\n
Obama might want to be a little careful with these attacks, as the same measure has him voting with Democrats 97 percent of the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The truth is, McCain is more like the average American than the President, and much more so than Obammy.<\/p>\n
According to the League of Conservation Voters, John McCain is the ultimate centrist. While the average Republican supported liberal environmentalist positions 13 percent of the time, and the average Democrat supported them 76 percent of the time, McCain’s 44 percent put him in the middle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As Obama and his teleprompter-feeders might recall, many conservatives have held McCain in contempt of our most dearly-held beliefs. Its safe to say more than a few of us will vote for McCain as\u00a0the lesser of two evils.<\/p>\n
Another way to look at these numbers is to see how many of the 99 other senators voted more conservatively than McCain. In 2006, these four groups ranked McCain as the 47th, 46th, 44th and 51st most conservative member of the Senate, respectively. Surely, McCain is not nearly as liberal as the typical Democratic senator, but rankings from the left, middle and right find he is more liberal than the vast majority of Republicans in the Senate.<\/p>\n
In contrast to the very liberal ratings given to Obama, the interest groups find that there are about as many senators to McCain’s right as there are to his left. This might not endear him to many conservatives or liberals. But it is a real distortion to claim he is a Bush clone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Each Candidate’s selection\u00a0for Vice President, adjusting for political expediency, is far more telling as to their true intent.<\/p>\n
Obama’s “Change” platform is belied by the choice of the nation’s second<\/em> most liberal senator, self-admittedly a life-long member, having joined the club at age twenty nine. Furthermore, Obama’s choice reveals a striking inability to lead as clearly he chose Biden in a moment of weakness, retreating to a default position. Hillary was the clear choice, but would have also required Obama to summon a degree of leadership not within his grasp.<\/p>\nMcCain’s courageous (and admittedly calculated)\u00a0choice of Sarah Palin shows McCain is willing to enlist the aid of someone else<\/em> who has challenged his own party’s entrenchments. The fact that she’s a woman, and a babe, is the frosting, not the cake.<\/p>\nAs it stands, McCain\/Palin represents far more hope for a detour from\u00a0politics as\u00a0usual\u00a0than Obama\/Biden.<\/p>\n
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them<\/a>? Exhibit A: Barack Obama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing a 90% correlation of Senator McCain’s voting record with the President’s,\u00a0Obama and his brainwashed minions have gotten a lot of mileage out of the mantra that the McCain Presidency will be third term for the Bush administration. Is this the same McCain who drove Republicans nuts on campaign finance, the environment, taxes, torture, immigration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}