Posted by
C-Hayes on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:51:39 PM
...could somebody remind me why Republicans would vote for McCain?
"(GEORGE) STEPHANOPOULOS: Back in 2005, you said, 'I have no doubt that Sen. [Hillary] Clinton would make a good president.'
MCCAIN: Well, look, here's -- Sen. Clinton and I are sitting next to each other, and we're asked, 'Would she,' quote, 'be a good president?' She would be a good president in the respect that I think she has integrity, I think she has all of the qualities that are necessary, but she has a very different philosophical view, the liberal Democratic view, than I have, which is conservative Republican."
Ummm...can we have an alert for Laura Ingraham's
Lie of the Day? Does the "integrity" issue even need to be addressed?
And how about that "conservative Republican" ideology that McCain has?
"We keep hearing about McCain's 'lifetime' rating from the American Conservative Union being 82.3 percent. But McCain has been a member of Congress for approximately 400 years, so that includes his votes on the Spanish-American War. His more current ratings are not so hot.
In 2006 -- the most recent year for which ratings are available -- McCain's ACU rating was 65. That year, the ACU rating for the other senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, was 97. Even Chuck Hagel's ACU rating was 75, and Lindsey Graham's was 83.
Since 1998, only four Republican senators have had worse ACU scores than John McCain -- and none were from Goldwater country: Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter. The last time McCain ranked this far down in his class, he was at the Naval Academy."
Chafee has since become "independent" and is
endorsing Barack Obama. Arlen Specter is busy investigating the Patriots. Susan Collins supported campaign finance reform, is pro-choice, and is a member of "Republicans for Environmental Protection." Olympia Snowe was one of the Gang of 14 and did not find Bill Clinton guilty of perjury or obstruction of justice during his impeachment trial.
Oh wait. Neither did Susan Collins.
Neither did Arlen Specter.
These are the senators comparable to John McCain.
How are Clinton or Obama any different?