Defensor

Umm, neither Bush nor McCain embody traditional Republican values at all.

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Thumpernovember

I don't agree with you, or people like you who think there is this cookie cutter republican. What you do is nit pick. Americans differ on all sorts of things and fewer of them actually bother to educate themselves on the minute differences.

Republican voters are predominately middle class to upper class, older, conservative, suburban or rural, religious, are pro-life on abortion issues, disagree with government spending and are in favour of flat or regressive (i.e. independent of a person's ability to pay) taxes.

Obviously alot of Republicans like Bush (elected him twice)

This being said, they are politicians and want to get elected so they compromise so that they appeal to a broader spectrum. They do however tote the party line mostly.

Defensor

They elected Bush because there was no acceptable alternative at the ballot box.

Thunderstorm Patriot

LOL, you have got to be kidding me. John McCain has an organization called the Reform Institute (RI) that he founded. It is an open borders advocacy group. One of the primary contributers to his Reform Institute is George Soros.

Another of the primary movers at RI is Juan Hernandez. hernandez is also the Hispanic Outreach Director of the McCain campaign. Hernandez is also a supporter of Aztlan. He feel that the southwest part of the United States rightfully belongs to Mexico and should be returned to them. He has openly said that even second and third generation Mexicans that have gained American citizenship should still think Mexico first! So he wants them to lie about loyalty to America to gain citezenship and influence he vote.

Read more about this here:
Michelle Malkin » Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”

He is the guy that insulted American workers by telling us that American wouldn't pick lettuce even it they were paid fifty dollars per hour.
McCain's lettuce-picking remarks yield unwanted green | www.azstarnet.com ®

John McCain abandoned the POWs and MIAs left in Vietnam even though there was credible evidence thet they still existed.
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate - POW/MIA Freedom Bracelets
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain

John McCain supported the abridgment of our First Amendment rights with his McCain-Feingold bill which is a travesty in reforming campaign finance. It was designed to protect the candidates from free speech not to reform finances.
QandO: Why I oppose McCain-Feingold
Oppose McCain-Feingold's assault on the Bill of Rights
Editorial: McCain-Feingold was a mistake - Examiner.com

John McCain and his Gang of 14 were a disaster for any type of progress. It was not about anything other than creating a coalition that could make or break any bill in the Senate. These fourteen Senators granted themselves more power than our Constitution gives them by fiat out political manipulation. While it is not illegal, it is unethical.

John McCain was one of the original Keating Five that was supported by Charles Keating. He was responsible for a bank failure that cost the taxpayers millions.
Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


So no, I cannot stand John McCain. He is a lie to us all. he is nothing like the man he tries to portray himself to be. He is the only Republican running that I refuse to vote for.

montanamrs

4 words simplifies everything about McCan't.

He is a twat




(oops sorry freckles is that not ladylike? )

Freedom for All

You mean the old self that made him part of the Keating Five gang that led to rules changes that created the S&L Crisis that cost taxpayers hundreds of billions?

Just think, those same corrupt bankers want the American taxpayer to bail them out of the sub-prime lending fiasco they caused, too.

Or perhaps you mean the John McCain that transferred billions of dollars from the hands of the smoking poor to the god damned trial attorneys with his "tobacco" settlement?

How about the John McCain that "reformed" campaign financing in such a way that ripped the First Amendment to shreds?

There's the John McCain that refused to vote to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which means we'll soon be facing a stealth tax hike that none of today's politicians will do anything to prevent.

No. You must mean the Pro-Don't-Call-It-Amnesty-It-Makes-It-Sound-So-Bad-For-Me McCain, who's done everything except send out engraved invitations to all of Mexico to come on over and join the fiesta, utterly disregarding the damage those people have done to his own state.

McCain SUCKS.

Only people who should be voting for Democrats could like him.

INTELLIGENT PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT GOVERNMENT IS A DANGEROUS SERVANT AND A CRUEL MASTER.

LIKE FIRE, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE DON'T LET THE TINY CANDLE OF WHAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE TO BURN UNWATCHED AND UNCONTROLLED.

Buck Laser

I'm kinda enjoying watching the pubs get all in a dither about John McCain, but they do have an awfully sparse field there. I see McCain as the only one I could actually respect, much the way I felt about Barry Goldwater. He shares an important trait with Goldwater in his ability to change his mind as circumstances change. One of the least attractive traits about republicans IMO is their common inability to change their thinking as circumstances change.

That said, I don't think McCain should be the republican nominee because he's too old. His calendar age isn't so much an issue as the hard miles he's got. I'm a bit older than McCain, and I've been learning in the last couple of years how many parts quit working the way they should--and I haven't been tortured. There's statistical evidence out there that people who've suffered major physical trauma--like torture--are more liable to early Alzheimer's than others. So my objection to his age has nothing to do with his ideology.

Ideologically, McCain is FAR too conservative for my tastes, and I'd not vote for him on that account either. Nevertheless, he's the best the republicans have.