McCain is often cited for his ability to cross the aisle to get bills and compromise done..
but on every issue that I know of when he compromised, the result was legislature I feel is bad for America..
McCain/Fiengold allows billionaires such as George Soros to fund organizations that shape our politics..
Because of a special provision campaign finance laws, the Soroses were able to give a collective $60,000 to Obama during his primary challenge.
McCain's stance on Immigration "I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it."" after Mccain's Kennedy amnesty bill fizzled..
McCain didn't want the Tax cuts..
In August 1999, McCain said, "I'd love to see a point where Roe v. Wade is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade,
The same thing happened again following McCain's suggestion that the nutty Republican platform plank on the topic be rewritten, and again after he made the comment that if his daughter—who was 15 at the time—became pregnant, it would be up to her to decide whether to have an abortion.
McCain during an interview in the mid-1990s about how a gay member of his staff sensitized him to the issue.
(Hope he wasn't in a bathroom at the time), When he ran for president in 2000, he won the endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans. The Advocate calls him "notoriously pro-gay." In 2004, McCain was one of only six Republican senators to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment,
if John McCain's proposed anti-gun legislation were to become law, a family member who uses one of the family handguns to go target shooting with a 15-year old could be sent to prison. And a person who uses a gun for self-defense could be sent to prison for a mandatory minimum of five years.
McCain allied himself with Democratic colleagues on a variety of social issues, including HMO reform, environmentalism, global warming and gun control. Democrats implored him to switch teams, as a couple of his advisers actually did. But instead of accepting John Kerry's offer to become his running mate in 2004,.. instead He waited,... if you watch closely, you can still catch plenty of signals that the old liberal McCain isn't gone, just hiding out.
SNOW: Right. But, so- I want to just lay to rest once and for all: (Kerry) never approached you, never hinted that he wanted to talk to you about being vice president. All that kind of stuff was made up.
McCAIN: Well, I cannot attest to that. All I can tell you is my conversations with him were private conversations,
He seems conservative only in that he is reluctant to change..
