Reminder: John McCain is on the wrong side of virtually every issue.

[TheWraith]

To the people who think McCain is going to be a tough opponent, remember: McCain is on the wrong side of virtually every important issue for the last 8 years.


The war. The surge. Staying versus leaving.

The tax cuts for the super-rich. Defecit spending. Pork.

Wiretapping. Flipflopping on torture. Rendition.

Hunting Al Qaeda. Pakistan. Bombing Iran.


He's wrong on all of these things, and against the public opinion on all of them. And we can garrote him with them, 24 hours a day, from the minute that we have a nominee until the election. And that's not even mentioning his ethics issues, his sucking up to Bush, his unpredictable behavior, and the quarter million posters we should print bearing that picture of him nuzzling Bush's chest.

[Bread and Circus]

1. Yep. I think Obama is going to drive that home very well.

[chelsea0011]

2. And getting worse as he kisses the hard rights asses. He now wants

the Bush give away tax cuts to the wealthy to be permanent when he never supported them in the first place. Now that is really sticking your head up their asses.

[saracat]

3. And it doesn't matter because a Dem Congress and Senate

won't allow those things to happen. The president isn't a dictator.( or hre can't be , with the right Congress)Not that I will vote for him but I find it odd that you feel the need to post such a thing.

[SteppingRazor]

5. At the very least, he can continue policies already in place.

The war, certainly, and even many of the civil-liberties restrictions we've seen over the last few years. We need the combination of a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress to change these things -- after all, if a Democratic Congress alone could end the war, the war would be over.

[saracat]

6. No because we need a super majority.And neither candidate is going to end the war overnight even

with congressional support.If Obama is the nominee , he has said that.We eliminated all the candidates who would have ended the war quickly.Hillary would try to end the war more quickly then Barack but the reality is much of this makes no diffference.

[SteppingRazor]

7. I wouldn't want anyone to end the war overnight. I'd like a sensible, well-strategized withdrawal.

Both of our Democratic candidates will give us that. McCain would not.

As for a super majority, don't count that out either! There's a possibility (not a large one, but it's there) that we'll have 60 seats in the Senate come 2009.

[saracat]

10. I don't discount the super majority.But I wouldn't bet against a McCain withdrawel either.

He just throws red meat to his base.

[SteppingRazor]

11. What makes you think McCain would withdraw troops from Iraq?

I mean, he's never said anything even approximating that view, and his senate record would lead me to believe that his foreign policy would be even more belligerent than Bush's, not less.

[saracat]

12. because he has been a soldier himself and is a pragmatist.He has always been supportive of the

military and is unlikely to continue to place them in harms way for nothing.He has to say what he says to get the "base' to provide him the nomination.I predict he may begin to talk differently in the GE but I could be wrong.In any event, I don't think it matters either way.Remember when Mccain rejected the fundamentalists at Bob Jones U? Then , this season praised them? And what about Bush? He loathes him and everyone knows it but he cuddled up to him to get this nomination. It is hard to really know "What" McCain believes. And I have no reason to know "what Barck believes " either.So it is a crap shoot and we need a super majority either way.But being Dems, who knows if they will vote together? They don't even now!

[TheWraith]

13. That was before he went crazy.

Remember, he was pushing the "surge" long before the campaign started. McCain's strapped his entire political existence to the premise of "winning" in Iraq.

And what does this mean?

"And I have no reason to know "what Barck believes " either."

A 5+ year record of opposition to the war isn't enough?

[democrattotheend]

4. Thanks for the reminder

It's very important that we keep our eye on the ball here.

[ZinZen]

8. We just need to keep reminding people

that McCain has adopted every one of Bush's failed policies and make a point that a vote for McCain is a vote to further the Bushshit doctrine.

[ecstatic]

9. What's sad is the possibility that anyone here truly needs to be reminded

After 8 years of Bush... 5 years of war... Economy crisis.. gas prices... plummeting home values... Anyone who needs to be reminded of why we need a democratic president is not playing with a full deck. I would be honored to vote for any of the two candidates on our side.