So, you want to be a McCain Democrat? (Payne / Boston Globe)

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By Dan Payne
April 3, 2008

... Democrats thinking of voting for John McCain should ask themselves if they want a hot-tempered, right-wing Republican in the White House - keeping his foot on the gas in Iraq, sentencing women to illegal abortions, and pouring cement around President Bush's tax cuts for the rich ...

He's against the federal government helping thousands of people who lost homes in the subprime mortgage debacle. But he's OK with the Federal Reserve lending $30 billion to salvage Bear Stearns ...

Our foreign policy expert, while in Iraq, said over and over that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. No such thing is happening. Iran, a Shi'ite country, has been training and financing Shi'ite extremists, not Al Qaeda, who are Sunni insurgents. No wonder McCain says we'll have to be in Iraq for 100 years. He doesn't know who's fighting whom ...

The day the next president takes office, five of the nine Supreme Court justices will be over 70 .... The next president will probably pick one or two of their replacements; maybe more ...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/04/03/so_you_want_to_be_a_mccain_democrat/

[Genevieve]

1. Thanks - good article! .. k and r

[Old and In the Way]

2. Funny how you never hear the term "Clinton Republican" or "Kennedy Republican"

If you vote for the Republican, you are a Republican, media spin and Republican punditocracy, notwithstanding.