What does McCain stand for?

[johncoby2]

He was against the President before he was for him.

He has flipped on issue after issue. One day he supports the constitution, you know the one he fought for, the next he says bush can spy on Americans.

McCain is like a red fish out of water. Flipping and flopping. Someone through the fish back.

[salin]

1. McCain is revealing to all that he stands for:

Sen. McCain. :shrug:

[malaise]

2. Imperialism

I hate him. He's a fugging Neocon.

[salin]

4. I find him... interesting

in an ugh sorta way. So he finally climbs out of senate oblivion (as in who?) by appearing to be a maverick - someone who takes on his own leadership from time to time. But now, he is suddenly affixed to bushco - in order to become the heir apparent for fundraising for a presidential run... but in doing so he loses the very thing that gave him appeal to a chunk of the public in the first place. I find that interesting.

[craychek]

7. You know...

I've always found it interesting how the tune of senators and politicians in general can change over night. I tend to get the feeling that once you are there in politics, sooner or later all the dirt gets dug up about you by someone higher than you or people who have better connections than you do. Once they find it they can dangle it over your head like a 500 lb anvil waiting to drop it if you decide to go against the grain. I respect Mccain for the most part, but honestly, he more than likely has stuff in his past that, if brought to light, would ruin him politically. I'm sure many of the other senators and congressmen do to which would explain why many of them, including some hardcore dems, vote with the republican side of things even when it's blatently against what they stand for. The bush administration has already proven itself to be extremely good at digging up dirt and info as well as scrubbing certain things out of existance. I mean look at when the abramoff story broke. All the pictures of anyone in the Bush administration and Abramoff together suddenly vanished from existance in a matter of days. Anyways, this is just my 2 cents of assumtions and conjecture with no real evidence. Just educated assumptions on life and people...

[acmejack]

3. Absolutely nothing!

He takes stands of convenience. At one time I held Mr. McCain in great respect based upon his military service. That has evaporated in view of his unprincipled political hijinks. He is the worst sort of political opportunist and most definitely no patriot. He is quick to use this Nation's misfortunes to further his own political career.

[Disturbed]

5. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

McCain hypocrisy:

The Bushification of John McCain

By Ari Melber, AlterNet. Posted November 15, 2005.

The bad blood between the two men has been infamous since 2000, when Bush's campaign lied about McCain's family and war service, and McCain told Bush to "get out of the gutter."

But during Bush's reelection in 2004, McCain strained to embrace his former rival -- literally. In their first joint appearance, they hugged dramatically before 6,000 soldiers at a Fort Lewis rally. Those events made for great campaign visuals. Yet while most Americans saw McCain's big heart, Republican leaders saw hungry ambition.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative magazine National Review, recently described that campaign bear hug as nothing but proof of "the senator's presidential ambitions." Lowry argues it's just part of McCain's scheme to get "the Right to stop loathing him." In targeted moves since the election, McCain has continued his Bushification by changing positions on conservative priorities like creationism, gay marriage and tax cuts.

As the costs of Hurricane Katrina mounted, McCain went on national television and told Chris Mathews the Bush tax cuts must be maintained. But McCain voted against those tax cuts.

In fact, he was one of only two Republicans to oppose Bush's signature 2001 tax cut. Given the surging costs of Katrina, Iraq and Medicare, there is no policy rationale for reversing his position now. The only rationale is political pandering. And that's exactly how some influential conservatives see it. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently said that although McCain has "flip-flopped on a number of issues," he is still "anti-taxpayer" because "he's voted against every tax cut."

Yet the mainstream media is so attached to McCain's maverick image, most journalists didn't cover the tax reversal.


http://www.alternet.org/story/28266 /

[graywarrior]

6. I despise him more than Bush because he's smarter and still

believes the shit he spews, whatever that it.

[BlueManDude]

8. He is a cult of personality

although, oddly enuf, he has none.

[adriennui]

9. mccain?

oh, isn't he the former maverick of the repubs who now fellates(metaphorically) the chimp?