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The NYT's examines whether McCain is actually McSame
And comes to the unsurprising conclusion that he is.
The most shocking thing about the article is the lede:
Is McCain Like Bush? It Depends on the Issue
Depends? DEPENDS?! (insert Depends joke here)
The analysis in the reporting is quite revealing: Either John McCain and Bush are in complete agreement--the economy, the war in Iraq, health care, judicial appointments, and Gitmo. Or McCain is moving towards Bush on issues where he had formally shown a measure of resistance to the Republican Borg: Torture and executive power.
It's a shame McCain has to sacrifice the remnants of his Maverick image by declaring that he would vote against his own Immigration bill! A bill that even George W. Bush supported.
Then again, he had to show his independence from Bush in some way, why not Immigration?
Si se puede!
The most shocking thing about the article is the lede:
Is McCain Like Bush? It Depends on the Issue
Depends? DEPENDS?! (insert Depends joke here)
The analysis in the reporting is quite revealing: Either John McCain and Bush are in complete agreement--the economy, the war in Iraq, health care, judicial appointments, and Gitmo. Or McCain is moving towards Bush on issues where he had formally shown a measure of resistance to the Republican Borg: Torture and executive power.
It's a shame McCain has to sacrifice the remnants of his Maverick image by declaring that he would vote against his own Immigration bill! A bill that even George W. Bush supported.
Then again, he had to show his independence from Bush in some way, why not Immigration?
Si se puede!
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Yep.
A research center at Uni Ca San Diego analysed his voting patterns and found that he's moved from being one of the more liberal Republican Senators to one of the most right wing now.
He `rates as the 8th most conservative senator in the 110th Congress, the 2nd most conservative in the 109th, and the 5th or 6th most conservative in the 108th.`
I'm ambivalent about whether or not that should receive much publicity. I want to turn independents off him, but don't want to activate the republican base!
June 17, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Fran, I don't think you've got to be concerned about the republican base. They believe McCain is inauthentic and a pretender.
Frankly, I don't believe that independents are going to be that crucial in this election. Way more people are self identifying as democrats and if these folks come to the polls, independents aren't going to matter that much.
I actually supported McCain during the primary in 2000. Up to that point I had never voted democrat. It only took the Iraq invasion to make me see the error of my ways, and it's McCain's ongoing love affair with that disaster that has completely turned me off to him.
Obama represents the best way forward, and I'm proud to support him in this election.
June 17, 2008 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Chris,
Just as a warning, you're in violation of the AP's new licensing rules. You used 9 words from a headline, which they have said is five words too many. You now owe them $12.50, and I can get up to one million for 'reporting' you.
I know - sounds like hyperbole, I wish it were. Their spokesman said even headlines can't be quoted, and anything over four words owes them a royalty. See the links in my post on this for more of this absurdity. Hopefully rationality will prevail, but the AP (and by extension AP member NYT) has staked out a really absurd position on this.
June 17, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink