The Real McCain

John McCain's Long Liberal Record Renders Him a Bad Choice for President

While I respect and admire Sen. John McCain's military career, he votes like a Democrat on all the critical issues.

"Hi, I'm John McCain. I'm not a Republican, but I play one on TV."

He opposed the Bush tax cuts, voted against them twice, not (as he now claims) because there were no spending cuts attached, but on the same class warfare grounds that the Democrats use. (The Congressional Record establishes this clearly.)

He co-wrote and co-sponsored the worst restriction on free speech in this country since the Alien and Sedition Acts.

He said publicly he would not appoint judges like Alito. (Remember, it was Republicans who gave us Stevens and Souter and earlier, Blackmun, Warren, Brennan, and the like.)

He is co-sponsoring a bogus "global warming" bill that would shut down American industry.

He co-sponsored amnesty. Even though he says he's never supported amnesty, a search of the Congressional Record shows that he was explicitly for amnesty back when it was still called amnesty.

He's for closing Guantanamo and bringing the terrorists into our country.

He is for bailouts for the big investment banks.

He flat-out lied about Romney supporting timetables. Romney said he would veto timetables.

Then, of course, there is the Keating Five. McCain is a person of low character and can't be trusted. He would destroy what's left of conservatism and of the GOP (not that I care all that much about the latter.)