Maverick Conservative? - McCain likes to use the word “maverick” in his political ads when describing himself politically. Maverick is a term, usually referring to cattle or a free range animal that does not carry a rancher’s brand. McCain likes to fictionalize himself as a ‘maverick without a brand’ but all that maverick nonsense is just fiction, made up by some media consultant as a clever marketing device to package and obfuscate McCain’s true progressive/socialist, political leanings. McCain likes to tie the word ‘maverick’ to his phony conservative values image so that he appears like he is a real Maverick Conservative ( which he is not ). He equivocates his ’maverick’ stance as being “strong” against big government (which he is not ) and being a “fighter” for the average Joe-The-Voter ( which he is not ). McCain’s current political radio ad ( the same FOX radio station mentioned above ) uses phrases like “fighting for the little guy“, “against titans”, etc. to further emphasize and confuse, uninformed voters into swallowing his phony, self-manufactured ‘conservative/maverick’ title. I have not heard the word “titan” in years and reminds me of the exaggerated rhetoric used in the kid’s radio serial programs from the 1940’s like “The Shadow” or “Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy” ( NOTE - somebody must have pointed out to the ‘maverick’ that this ad sounded ridiculous (fighting titans) and it has been dropped and replaced by a more, updated, currently popular, anti-Obama ad. ) But what conservative does not oppose Obama’s policies and where was this anti Obama rhetoric during your presidential campaign? Your are12 months too late Mr. McCain and it makes you look like that your out of touch, like Obama and his policies, with your conservative voters and the outside world.

McCain is trying to sell voters on the idea that he is a staunch conservative but nothing could be further from the truth. McCain, like “The Shadow” character mention above is just that - a publicist’s manufactured political character who is a Progressive/Socialist ( like Roosevelt ), NOT a conservative. "The Shadow” (aka John McCain ), was a fictional radio, crime fighting hero. ( McCain also claims to be a fighter ). It’s a know fact that people who have to convince you that they are a “fighter” are just faking it, trying to fool you into believing they are something they are not. The fictional Shadow had the unique ability to “Cloud Men’s Minds” so no one could see him. That’s McCain. McCain ads, speeches, TV interviews are all propaganda methods he uses to obfuscate ( hide ) who he really is. McCain the conservative, like The Shadow, is a fictional creation manufactured by his media consultants in order to deceive voters ( cloud their minds ) with clever, well funded, propaganda. You never hear McCain speaking to you in person in his current political radio ads. The current McCain radio ads has a woman with a very husky voice. You know the type. They are the older 60ish woman sitting down at the end of the bar with a cigarette in her mouth and maybe a tattoo on her arm who has smoked and drank too much in her lifetime but now throught the miracle of media magic she is a political genius and has become a McCain spokesperson. McCain has been deceiving voters for years with this phony, conservative maverick image propaganda but I know there are hundreds of thousands of conservative Arizonans who are finally fed up with McCain and his nauseating, progressive politics.

McCain has acknowledged in the past that not all of his anti-conservative political positions have been well received by conservatives, but he always promises, like Obama does, that he might vote on issues that are more to the right in the future. All contrived LIES. This is a technique frequently used by Obama who hinted in his pre-election speeches that he was going to create a whole new ‘transparency in government’. More Liberal Lies. That has never happened. So tell me why would a true conservative make that statement? McCain made that statement because he is a leftist Progressive, masquerading under a publicists manufactured conservative image, a image he needs desperately to get reelected without actually switching parties or publically revealing his allegiance to Roosevelt Progressive ideology.

Health Care Bills - McCain co-sponsored, with John Edwards and Ted Kennedy (Democrats), a patients' bill of rights. He joined Chuck Schumer (Democrat) to sponsor one bill allowing the re-importation of prescription drugs and another permitting wider sale of generic alternatives. All these measures were opposed by the health care industry and by the GOP.

Environmental Bills - McCain has opposed conservatives and joined liberals on numerous environmental issues. McCain, with John Kerry (Democrat), sponsored a bill raising automobile fuel-efficiency standards. McCain worked closely with his friend Joe Lieberman (Democrat) to cosponsor legislation that would require greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010 — a measure guaranteed to result in substantial cost increases in electricity and gasoline for consumers.” McCain and his wife are financially well off and don't have the same financial concerns that the average worker has bout rising electricity and gasoline costs. The McCains can can afford cost increases. Although the enviromental greenhouse gas emmision hoax has been exposed and dismissed by informed scientists, McCain is still enviromentally clueless on this subject along with the other enviromental, Democrat nut-case - Al Gore.

Arctic Oil Drilling - He was also one of six Republicans to vote against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I can’t condemn McCain on most of these bills with the exception of the fraudulent, economy wrecking cap-and-trade bill and his vote against drilling for oil in the Artic Wildlife Refuge which would help alleviate and eventually reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

More McCain Progressive/Liberal Voting Record - McCain teamed up with Carl Levin (Democrat) on bills closing down tax shelters, forbidding accounting firms from selling products to the firms they audited, and requiring businesses that gave out stock options as compensation to reveal the cost to their stockholders. These "big government interferring" measures were bitterly opposed by major conservative businesses and faced total opposition not only from virtually the whole members of the GOP but from many moderate Democrats as well.

Tax Cuts - McCain voted against the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. He co-sponsored bills to close the gun-show loophole, expand the tax money laundering and give away programs of AmeriCorps, and federalize airport security. All these liberal programs set him firmly against nearly the entire Republican Party and conservatives alike.

AmeriCorps - Bill Clinton’s Waste and Fraud Liberal Give Away Program - If you though ACORN was rotten then read the following about AmeriCorp which McCain supports. In 1995, AmeriCorps had illegally given a $1.1 million in grant money to an organization called Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The grant eventually had to be returned. According to a 1998 report from Citizens Against Government Waste, AmeriCorps' operational cost amounted to $27,000 per “volunteer” per year. In 1999, President Clinton claimed that AmeriCorps members have "taught millions of children to read." However one unnamed AmeriCorps official said the real number is probably less than a dozen, and the former director of the National Institute of Education, labeled it "a total and complete fraud." One reading tutor said, "We're not teaching them to read. Much of the time where literacy teaching was supposed to be taking place was instead spent putting on puppet shows.” The program also accused of redirecting tax dollars to liberal advocacy groups like ACORN and for similar activities that conservatives find morally wrong and just a massive waste of your tax money. McCain supports this waste. In 1996, for example, it was estimated that more than one-fourth of AmeriCorps volunteers were placed into a federal, state, or local government agencies, "where they would increase Democratic voter roles and the liberal bureaucratic state, not rebuild the volunteer sector.” My opinion? Clinton set this up as way of redistributing your tax money ( progressive socialism ) to groups like ACORN and other liberal political activist groups that is also supported by McCain.

McCain on Domestic Policy - Former Senate Republican Conference chairman Rick Santorum bitterly noted that "almost at every turn, on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us, but "leading the charge" on the Democratic liberal left side." Former House speaker Dennis Hastert - complained that McCain nearly always "sided with liberal Democrats." By 2002 the McCain had moved far to the left which was way beyond any previous political images he had fabricated when he first became a Senator, replacing Mr Conservative Barry Goldwater. To justify his title of “Maverick Conservative” stature he says he opposes abortion although he has not show much enthusiasm in supporting the abortion issue. Even if McCain is not exactly your dictionary definition of a “died in the wool liberal“ the abortion issue doesn’t have any importance to him personally. Additionally Roosevelt, who McCain likes to quote often when he votes with the left, probably didn’t have a strong position one way or the other on abortion either.

McCain - The Progressive Maverick - McCain can be easily described as ‘PRO’ Progressive - like Teddy Roosevelt, whom he quotes repeatedly. McCain sees his politics as a constant battle between our national interest and his personal Progressive perspective of the selfishness ( a political liberal propaganda lie ) of private business, the corporate world and Wall Street. This is also one of Obama’s main liberal agendas and repeated lie. Always looking for someone other than themselves to blame

Big Government - McCain strongly favors a role for more government control and intervention ( as does Obama ) to counterbalance the left’s long time exaggeration of excesses ( another liberal propaganda lie ) by wealthy individuals, Big Business and Wall Street. McCain, like Obama, firmly believes that it is the role of big government to intervene and regulate the way businesses operate, pay their employees, hand out executive stock options, bonuses and believes Big anything has a moral duty to inform its shareholders and its employees everything going on inside the company. McCain, as a Senator, should know that government meddling in how businesses are run has never been within the scope or the responsibility of the federal government. McCain would always complain loudly with the following Roosevelt quote: "Well, Theodore Roosevelt would not agree with that type of rhetoric”. McCain should know(?) that there are already numerous government regulatory agencies in place to curb any such abuses or potential abuses by big business or Wall Street. McCain sees his Senate seat as nothing more than a comfortable country club membership so that he can take phony junket trips around the world, stay at expensive hotels and lunch and socialize with his other liberal friends in Washington. As Reagan said: “Government is the problem.” In this case, McCain and his Progressive liberal ideas are the problem for Arizona.

Pork-Barrel Spending - Even McCain's feigned opposition to pork-barrel spending fits neatly within his “Progressive View“. Pork-barrel spending, in McCain's eyes, is any spending program requested by legislators directly rather than by federal agencies indirectly. Government ran agencies do not have to justify the effectiveness or the need for their pork barrel spending. Opposition to legislative pork is in keeping with McCain’s pretense as a reformer, fighting against the liberal/Democrat “machine“ rhetoric. He never ever says who or what the “machine” is but he is against it! But, voters deduct by his strong use of 'fighting' words, that it must be bad, evil and it nearly always applies to BIG business. Progressives like McCain and liberals alike have to create a someone other than themselves, in this case it’s “the machine“, big business, that needs to be defeated by “maverick fighters” like McCain. Lately he has stepped up his critizism of Obama, something he didn't do during the Presidential race. And that is where McCain gets this phony "Maverick Conservative" title - it’s his opposition to "pork" not to government bureaucratic pork or any of the other liberal pork laden bills that he has supported. ( See AmeriCorp and The Law of the Sea Treaty )

The Law of the Sea Treaty This treaty originated in the 1970s as part of the United Nations' redistributionist agenda known as the "New International Economic Order." The treaty covers such issues as fishing and navigation, but the controversy arose mainly over seabed mining. In essence, the Law of the Sea Treaty was designed to transfer wealth and technology from the industrialized countries to the Third World just like the Cap & Trade scam which was also designed to transfer wealth from the United States to 3rd World Countries. McCain supports both Cap and Trade and Law of the Sea Trade which is more of Obama’s Share the Wealth Marxist agenda nonsense that he is currently trying to jam through congress.

Party Switching McCain - McCain’s personal political mentor Roosevelt abandoned the GOP (as McCain does through his constant siding with Democrats ) over what Roosevelt regarded as its “subservience to big business“. That is the same “mantra” Obama uses over and over in his own anti Big Business/Wall Street/Insurance company speeches. All fake anger and outrage to make these businesses look evil, mean and bad for America. That is the same ideology that McCain follows. McCain has secretly threatened to leave the Republican party since his voting record is mostly Progressive, rather than conservative. The Washington Post (at the time) and The Hill (again last year) reported that, in 2001, McCain met privately with Democratic leaders to consider a party switch. McCain and his supporters deny that there was ever any such meetings. (Would you be willing to take a lie detector test on that subject) Obviously any hint of such a meeting(s) would expose McCain’s past Progressive positions to his base voters. The liberal media never mentions this fact in their current McCain election coverage. They also rarely mention how, in 2004, John Kerry asked him privately to join his ticket as vice president. Why would Kerry (a Democrat) ask McCain ( a Maverick Republican ) be his running mate? You have just one guess on this one. The reported half-dozen conversations that took place between the two on this subject are about five more than would be necessary if McCain was actually a conservative Republican.

The Constant Political Re-Makeover Of John McCain - McCain fearing the voters were finally catching on to him and his phony conservative Maverick status after the VP conversations with Kerry ended, McCain had to decide what type of political identity he should assume for his next run for his Senate seat. McCain decided it would be easier and less trouble to pretend, as he has in the past, to be a conservative Republican with just a little dose of ’Maverick’ tossed in for good measure. Changing political parties in midstream would cause him far too much trouble. He would have to explain to his senior citizen conservative constituents why he was switching political parties. So he set about reconstructing his image with the GOP leaders and building a whole new reputation as an unwavering, man of principle, fighting the all evil “machine“, titan, etc. McCain sounds like our radio hero, The Shadow, who fought crime for 30 minutes every day on the daily “The Shadow” radio program. McCain's current radio ads portray him as a real Conservative Maverick fighting the evils of the “machine“, fighting 'Titans", etc. I don’t see how Arizona voters buy into this sophomoric, political crap but McCain is free to create any image he wants and if the voters swallow it then so be it - they get what they deserve. Just like all of the other millions of uninformed voters who bought into Obama’s high school, rah-rah, slogans of 'hope and change'. Ask yourself - How is that working out for everyone? Still unemployed? Lost your house yet? Can’t refinance your home? Lost money on your home?

The McCain Tax Lowering Maneuver - McCain's main political survival tactic when it comes to election time, other than his normal phony “Conservative Maverick” position, is to make himself appear as if he has always supported lowering taxes. Conservative Republicans in general are known for caring more about taxes than anything else. Here is the problem. McCain would never be able to make himself look like “Mr. Conservative” to any informed conservative voter on taxes because no amount of appeasement by McCain could ever totally wipe out his constant siding with the left-side of the aisle on many taxation issues. McCain’s only solution is to make himself look like he is a “compromiser”, not a supporter of Democratic proposals like his and Liberman's Cap and Tax Bill. He is always talking about “crossing the aisle” ( compromising ) which is his main excuse and reason for siding with the Democrats on many liberal issues. He is not a compromiser, he is one of them ( Democrats ) and has been one for a very long, long time. Many conservatives voters and members of Congress wish that McCain the Weasel Turncoat Progressive would just stay on the left side of the aisle and stop calling himself by that annoying, phony cow-poke, nickname - Conservative Maverick.

McCain’s Estate ( Death ) Tax Position Reversal - McCain's first step toward ‘political redemption’ in the eyes of his voter base and the GOP in 2005, when he suddenly stopped blocking the repeal of the conservative hated, estate tax. ( Remember McCain always claims he is against any form of taxation including, I guess, filibusters by the left to fight the repeal by Republicans of the estate tax which McCain supports) John McCain now wants to do us voters a favor by taking a tiny step to the right to make peace with the Republican Party’s position on the estate tax issue. He plans to finally vote for cloture to block any liberal estate tax filibuster on the House-passed bill that would repeal the estate tax. For years, conservatives had been seeking to secure a permanent repeal of the tax but fell just shy of securing the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster. In September of 2005, McCain told columnist Robert Novak that he would oppose any future Democratic backed filibusters by agreeing to vote for “cloture“. McCain insisted he would still vote “against the complete repeal of the tax” if the filibuster bill was defeated. McCain said: "I follow the course of a great Republican, Teddy Roosevelt," "who talked about unscrupulous, wealthy ‘business titans’ ( that is where he gets the "titan" word ) that created the need for passing an estate tax.” When questioned about his support of the estate tax he always uses quotes of Teddy Roosevelt - he never gives his own answer for supporting the tax. Many younger voters today don’t know who Teddy Roosevelt was or why McCain quotes someone who was president over 100 years ago. Nobody today cares what Roosevelt thought over a hundred years ago about this tax. McCain further said “I oppose the rich passing on their fortunes." ( Does this apply to his wife’s fortune ) Of course, McCain obviously knew that the Republicans, at that time, had more than the 50 votes needed for a straightforward passage, which would render McCain's sudden reversal of his previous position on the estate tax “utterly and completely pointless“. Just more of the same old McCain political double-talking nonsense.

McCain Opposed Bush’s Tax Cut - In further reshaping his phony conservative maverick position image, McCain assured conservatives that he would support making the Bush tax cuts permanent when was running for President, which would otherwise expire during the next president's first term. Now this particular reversal ( flip-flop ) has proven to be a difficult position to justify, given that he had voted against and strongly opposed those very tax cuts. ( his 'cloud men’s minds' technique ) McCain explained that his position was perfectly consistent (if your are The Shadow) because, while he may have opposed the tax cuts in the first place, letting them expire, in McCain's world, would amount to a tax hike; and, he said, "I've never voted for a tax increase in twenty-four years . . . and I will never vote for a tax increase, nor support a tax increase." Remembering his past voting record seems to be a problem not only for Democrats but for McCain as well because he had proposed a tobacco tax increase in 1998. Nor would his position on the Bush tax cuts have made logical sense anyway. What economist(s) or conservative would oppose a major tax cut bill and then oppose the repeal of the same tax cut bill? A major dunce name John McCain.

Here Is McCain’s Story - McCain insisted that he only opposed Bush's tax cuts because they were not accompanied by his fake "spending cuts" requirement. When was that ever a requirement for cutting taxes except in the looney McCain world? Unfortunately, this explanation makes even less sense than his previous excuses. Bush enacted his first tax cut during a time of a budget surplus - nobody, at that time in government, was even contemplating the idea of a 'spending cut' - a McCain requirement. If the absence of his spending cuts was McCain's real reason for opposing the tax cuts, why would he later support those same tax cuts when none of the required spending cuts, he had insisted on earlier, were never part of the original tax cut bill?

McCain Has Trouble Explaining His Differing Positions - Don’t you remember Mr. McCain at the time of your opposition to Bush’s tax cuts that you ‘never’ brought up or ever mentioned that "spending cuts" was one of your requirements for support it. You said that later! What McCain said was, as he put it in one of his typical McCain comments, "I won't take every last dime of the budget surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy." McCain ignores the fact that those rotten, wealthy individuals he maligns are the same taxpayers that pay the greatest portion of our federal taxes. Well, that budget surplus is long gone and personal income rose ( helped along by those Bush's tax cut policies ), but McCain now says he wanted to keep those same tax cuts he opposed while still insisting he hasn't changed his mind on Bush’s original tax cuts. What? Yes John it is all perfectly clear now that you have explained your position or positions but you are either very confused or don‘t have a clue on what issues you actually support and can’t explain logically why you opposed or supported them .

McCain Tries Once More A New Approach To Remake His Conservative Image - McCain's strangest image recreation plan was when he told his conservative base ( using his “cloud men’s minds” strategy ) that he was now aligning himself to the conservative philosophy of Jack Kemp and Phil Gramm. Yes readers McCain is a aging dunce. It’s no wonder that McCain seems confused when he has to adjust to so many different conservative image makeovers. The odd thing is that Kemp and Gramm, while both were longstanding economic conservatives, actually follow opposite paths to their right-wing fiscal philosophy. Kemp was some sort of a over the top, utopian supply-sider, who was thoroughly convinced that any tax cuts can cause tax revenues to rise. Kemp, wherever he could, preached from his tax cut pulpit to any moderate liberals, blacks, and the poor or anyone who would listen were, according to Kemp, the Republican party’s natural constituency. Gramm, on the other hand, is a rabid spending conservative who has a massive dislike for any liberalized social programs. As inconceivable as it may sound, Gramm reportedly said publicly that “poor people are all fat“, and on another occasion he advised an elderly widow concerned about her Medicare cuts “to find a new husband to support her“. He must have attended and graduated from the Harry Reid School of Racial Insensitivity. It’s clear that ignorant dopes exist on both sides of the Senate’s political aisle.

The main purpose of McCain joining the Kemp and Gramm political camp was to reassure his loyal conservatives base (again) that he is a reliable supporter of tax cuts and opposes pork laden spending. ( which he doesn’t ) But here is McCain’s ongoing image problem - McCain announced he rejected any repeal of Bush's tax cuts, then at other times, he insists spending cuts are a necessary component to reinvigorate the economy. This dual position illustrates how McCain's new economic worldview is confusing to voters and doesn’t make any consistent political sense to his conservative base. This is the problem when political publicist and media consultants are hired to remake and rebuild the political image of McCain who is neither politically charismatic, a original thinker or has, in my view, an original idea of his own - he is just a aging political dud, muttering inane political based slogans and his days, like Harry Reid, and other liberal dunces thankfully are over. McCain the Maverick needs to be put out to pasture with the rest of the aging politically liberal herd in the Senate.

McCain Tries To Remake His Political Image One Last Time - McCain changes his image as often as women put on their lipstick. McCain’s is once again on the road to rebuilding his media image that is manufactured by hired consultants and publicists who are now trying a more subtle and updated technique. I would not call them subtle or updated since any technique to remake McCain’s current Progressive image is as transparent as Obama’s phony hope and change image. For years, McCain had kept his distance from identifying with President Bush or his policies; but, starting in the summer of 2004, McCain made a sudden reversal of his former position and began to praise Bush effusively. McCain also stopped ( for the moment ) teaming up with his Democratic Leftists cohorts on the left in sponsoring liberal legislation opposed by conservatives and Republicans. McCain also suddenly started to emphasize his agreement with Bush on the Iraq war, one of only a few conservative positions that McCain has ever supported. That can be attributed probably to the influence of his and his families long military background. McCain missed or didn’t care about the fact that the Iraq war was increasingly unpopular with most of the younger voters and he wrongly underestimated their distaste for him personally and yet he dragged out his old tried and true senior citizen ‘Maverick’ Image. That technique worked in the past but unfortunately he or his handlers picked the wrong issues to suddenly support. Kissing up to Bush at this time was another mistake because by now Bush‘s politics were hated by by everyone on the left. The resistance of younger voters to the war in IRAQ, to Bush and underestimating Obama‘s immense popularity were all problems that was not going to be easily overcome by dragging out his old ’Maverick’ image. McCain’s newly created hawkish war stance was suppose to be a major signal to his conservative senior citizen base of his willingness to buck public opinion. ( if McCain media handlers proposed this sophomoric 'Maverick' idea as a key to success, then they guessed wrong and guessed wrong badly as shown by past election results. )

The left wing media, continued to show their respect for McCain's Progressive/socialist views and they said that his new position on the war was evidence of McCain's image as a “man of principal“. That is what his handlers, publicists and media manager’s were promoting to the left wing media but that was not the voter’s, conservatives or the Republican party‘s view of McCain. It’s my opinion that the left wing media were simply poking fun at McCain with their inaccurate ‘man of principal’ description. The media and the Obama supporters saw his pro-war position as the final pin that punctured and let the air out of his already ineffective campaign balloon. McCain even stated he was willing to lose the presidency for the sake of his beliefs. Well he got what he asked for and the liberal media and Democrats were happy he made that statement. Media consultants spend a lot of time reviewing a candidate's public statements and eliminate any negative sentences or phrase like his "lose the presidency" statement. Think. What modern day candidate would make such a stupid confession. It came across as phony, dumb and ill advised by his media experts - it showed voters, Obama supporters that Mccain was weak, appeared old and vulnerable, not too bright and certainly not up to date on the overall mood of the voters.

McCain‘s backers thought the war was an issue where McCain's run for the Presidency would align perfectly with his own personal self-interest for winning the election. McCain wrongly believed that the constituency he needed to persuade to his side were conservative hawks who had also voted for his new best friend - President Bush. His backers were obviously poorly informed about the mood of voters because his pro-war, pro-Bush position was a disaster and obvious to everyone except the McCain camp - in fact it looked like his handlers were actually trying to sabotage his candidacy.

McCain's emphasis on the war brought into scrutiny another problem. The media saw that his campaign was now more focused on the war in Iraq and they chose to ignore his renewed efforts to rebuild his conservative voter image, a complete reversal from his former Progressive position. I think the left wing media felt instinctively that McCain was a weak candidate right from the start. I think McCain knew it too based on his flat, lackluster uninspiring campaign. Here is one example. McCain had for years supported the U.N. redistributionist “Law of the Sea Treaty” which was vehemently opposed by both right-wing and anti-internationalist. But, on a conference call with conservative blogger’s, he assured his audience, "I would probably vote against it in its present form." This is a classic McCain side stepping, weasel response to a direct question on a major international issue that would be very costly to American tax payers. McCain when cornered constantly uses vague or ambiguous language in order to avoid speaking directly or honestly in reply to his often changing position on issues without stating clearly and firmly that he would vote against it. His answer was whinny, wishy-washy and evasive. It was neither a ‘definite maybe' or a 'definte maybe not’ McCain type of response.

Bush/McCain Immigration Bill - In 2005, McCain co-sponsored with Bush, his new friend, a very unpopular and unwanted immigration bill. The fact that McCain was not aware of the publics and Arizonan,s mood regarding immigration is very telling about McCain's "out-of-touch" mentality. This was a Democrat promoted issue and McCain, as a Progressive/Socialist, was behind it 100%. At the time, few conservative voters were not paying much attention to this bill, and McCain's supporting this bill seemed, from his viewpoint, like a free-ride to hide and camouflage his past Progressive/Liberal voting history against the Bush administration as well as maintaining his phony support of the pro-immigration Hispanic lobbyists. Conservative, grassroots opposition learned of and successfully fought this anti-American, pro-illegal immigration bill and McCain was finally forced to announce that he had "got the message" and would not press the issue any further. He got the message? Why would a real Conservative Senator have to be forced by the voters to reject a illegal immigration bill? I think that McCains immigration position finally showed that the voters were on to his Liberal/Progressive agenda. What was McCain thinking if he wanted to fool his conservative base? He wanted to screw the American public with this bill and we are suppose to ignore or forget this traitorous behavior. Was it arrogance or ignorance? It's both. His support of this bill is just one reason of dozens of reasons why McCain is so disliked by Arizona voters. To show the looney side of McCain he said, at a recent debate, that if his own McCain/Bush immigration bill passed Congress, he would not sign it. It was reported that McCain was just playing old fashion politics again for his own personal benefit, not Arizonans, not America - but his own political survival and his Senate seat. It's time people like McCain are defeated and sent packing for good. McCain must have though his support of this bill would send a signal to the liberal media and the Hispanic lobbyists that he was in favor of legalizing immigration ( not caring what voters wanted ) and at the same time pretending to his conservatives base that he was really on their side.

What If McCain Had Won The Election - Now that we have seen what we got with Obama, determining how McCain would act as president has thus become a pointless "what-if" issue. Conservatives want to speculate what McCain actually stands for and what conservative polices, if any, he would have pursued. Nearly every conservative voter in Arizona can find something to dislike about McCain. Liberals, on the other hand, can admire his progressive/socialist views and hope that he was just ‘pandering to the right’ ( pretending to be conservative ) in order to slip unscathed through the Presidential primaries. Conservative voters were then and are now sick and tired of McCain’s whinny, apologetic approach to Obama’s media manufactured hope and change style of lies. Conservative voters wanted McCain to show a strong and vocal opposition to Obama’s Saul Alinsky’s style of Marxist socialist ideology. McCain chose to run and hide. McCain, for whatever reason, chose to ignore all of the scary, incriminating evidence regarding Obama’s life long associations with radical Marxist/Communists both in his youth and into his adult years as a Senator. Obama reputation in the Senate was that of a liberal/leftist Senator. McCain ignored all of Obama's socialist background and acted apologetic towards Obama for reason I believe McCain felt connected to Obama because of his own personal Progressive views.

McCain just did not seem to have the stomach to stand up to Obama. McCain could not plead ignorance of Obama’s past associations with communists, Marxist and corrupt politicians. Obama had strong connections to ACORN, Bill Ayers, Tony Resko, Frank Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, his communist parents and on, and on. McCain during his campaign came off old and weak, who was unwilling to expose Obama for his past radical associations. Obama's bacground was common knowledge and was openly published on the internet. If you fact check Wikipedia ( a liberal web site ) you will only find a list of Obama's successful, capitalist friends who are all lawyers, professors, bankers, corporate vice presidents, etc., not one communist among them. All capitalists by profession that goes totally against Obama’s socialist/Marxist policies. I think that this where Obama get his need to lie. He tells his capitalist friends one thing but has others within his administration pursue his socialist agenda.

My opinion - It was very suspicious at the time that McCain, who was fully aware of Obama’s radical/socialist background, made no effort during his campaign to expose Obama for those radical associations. McCain’s Progressive voting record may have has some influence on his reluctance to jump all over Obama's radical associations. It could be assumed that McCain ran a weak campaign because he suspected that he only had a slim chance of winning due to Obama's overwhelming popularity, his lack of campaign funds, his age and so he simply chose to go through the motions during his campaign. His age could have been key reason for his lack of enthusiasm to attack Obama’s past and simply took a political passive role in running his campaign. If he lost to Obama he could always return to his country club job in the Senate.

McCain’s past progressive ideological tendencies are the main reasons for him being linked to all of those non-conservative, liberal issues that were promoted in the Senate by his liberal Democratic cronies. You also have to look at who advises McCain to decipher exactly where McCain actually stands on various political issues because he adopts whatever political position his handlers manufacture or think will give him the best possible image for any issues, for that particular moment. McCain's past advisers include not only so-called neoconservatives but also the likes of Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. McCain is one of the worst kind of a political chameleon who I feel doesn’t have an original, thought provoking idea of his own - if not then why is it he is always months behind in opposing, unpopular issues like Obama‘s health plan, Obama's radical background, etc. Personally I think the liberal media is actually laughing at McCain with their "principled conservative" tag. His outraged, conservative opponents would never use that term to describe McCain.

McCain and his handlers during the last Presidential run tried to adopt new beliefs, new political positions and then convince his supporters that his revised conversion was genuine ( at least for that moment ) while simultaneously trying to strengthening their belief in his phony, manufactured political principles. His current radio ads are trying to rekindle his old "conservative maverick" reputation with his conservative base. If anyone was to seriously analyze McCain's constantly reinventing himself politically they would find that he has many characteristics that are quite similar to that of a political Chameleon - a slimy, lizard capable of changing it’s skin colors to blend into the current political enviroment or in McCain’s case, his ability to change his politics whenever it is convenient and necessary for his next re-election. Just the same old phoney McCain baloney.