John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born in the U.S. Panama Canal Zone, August 29, 1936) [1] is the conservative senior Senator from the state of Arizona, having served 20 years after replacing Barry Goldwater in 1986. He is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.[2] McCain, a Baptist,[3] has clinched the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 Election. [4][5]
John McCain and the Bush administration agree on most issues. He voted with the Bush administration 95% of the time in 2007, according to Congressional Quarterly's "Presidential Support Scores". [6] Issues include making the Bush tax cuts permanent, continuing the war in Iraq, reforming Social Security, and continuing and expanding Bush's supply-side economic policies. Voteview.com even rated McCain as the second most conservative Senator in the 109th Congress (Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2007).[7]
John McCain is a war hero. Which in for conservatives, means being tortured. In that case, everyone who was tortured in Vietnam is a war hero.
In short, don't vote for him because he is a conservative.
- â [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m0003http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Button_enter.png Line break03 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
- â Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- â http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296973,00.html McCain Identifies Himself as a Baptist
- â McCain clinches GOP nomination; Huckabee bows out 5 March 2008 IndyStar.com
- â John McCain Announces Plans for '08 Presidential Candidacy on 'Late Night With David Letterman', Associated Press, 1 March 2007
- â http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/512/ Politifact fact checks McCain's voting support
- â http://voteview.com/SEN109.HTM
