Read this column by Brendan Miniter. Looks like Nancy Pelosi is trying to reshape the Democratic party as the party of fiscal responsibility - and she can pull this charade off because the Republicans are most assuredly not - see here.
I think fiscal conservatives like us are just doomed to be stood up by every single candidate we get - it's so depressing. If McCain runs hard on the platform of fiscal responsibility, I just might vote for him. You Arizonans have the best candidates anyway, that's the state that brought us Barry Goldwater.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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I think promises of fiscal conservation would be about the only thing that could get me to vote for McCain. He hasn't really done anything that would make me doubt he would be fiscally conservative I guess. He just kind of seems like a tool in general. Whatever seems big and useless than will get his name in the papers is what he'll jump on. At least sound fiscal policy would be worth jumping on, I would just find it really hard to believe that he means it. Maybe I'm being unfair though.
I think McCain can't be considered a serious candidate, precisely because of the tool-ness. I also believe that Nancy Pelosi will crack before realizing her fiscal responsibility dreams. Also, remember, it's a long way to 2008 and there's a lot of time to vet suitable candidates and forge a new path in fiscal terms.
Yeah, he's a tool, but John Kerry was a tool also and he went pretty far for the other side. Politicians in general are tools. Even Bush has some tool qualities - look at his elevation of loyalty over general qualifications and ability in his cabinet appointments.
McCain has a lot of qualities that conservatives want: he's extremely reliable on the GWOT, and he has a good track record against pork-barrel spending. His biggest flaw thus far is his attitude towards social conservatives - which he could easily fix with whispering some sweet nothings into our ears (or nominating someone like Santorum for a running partner), and which doesn't really even hurt him (actually helps him) with the folks from the libertarian side of the current right-wing coalition. Oh, and their was the unconstitutional travesty that was McCain-Feingold. Myself, I'm a bit leery of allowing anybody who could come up with that awful legislation making judicial appointments.
We'll have to see how things play out though.
Although McCain is a liberal for most parts (in Congress), when he ran in 2000, he DID run on a moderate conservative ticket (I know most would disagree with me).
What made him liberal in 2000 to me is that he supported affirmative action, federalizing health care, and coddling to UN and the environment
To me, he "changed" during presidential election. It's when he got back to Congress when he would be buddy-buddy with Lieberman, Kennedy, Feingold, etc. on everything from health care to CFR to education
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