McCain will be the environmental champion? Let's look at his record

[deminks]

On David Greggory's new show on MSNBC, they said that McCain will be the environmental champion and this will help him win the election. This will win him Democratic votes, and will be his chance to distance himself from Booosh.

Well, I thought, how can this be? I think not! so I googled and guess what I found:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/mccain-scores-zero-on-env_n_87952.html

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/mccain-47022108

McCain Scores Zero on Environmental Report Card

John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has scored a stunning zero out of 100 on the latest League of Conservation Voters Scorecard, which rates elected officials on their votes in the most recent Congress.

McCain skipped every one of the 15 votes that the League of Conservation Voters deemed critical measures for the environment, including votes where the Arizona Senator's yea would have meant passage by a single-vote margin.

McCain has won support from many environmentalists, including Republicans for Environmental Protection, because he has championed action to combat global warming since 2003 and was the only serious presidential candidate to take such a strong position on the defining environmental issue of our time. He's bucked Republican lines on other hot-button issues, too, like drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and building roads through national wilderness areas. But his absenteeism on important votes this session calls into question his reputation as a maverick who might buck the party line on some energy and environmental issues.

"Out of 535 Members of Congress, John McCain is the only one who chose to miss every single key environmental vote scored by the League of Conservation Voters last year. When it came time to stand up and vote for the environment, John McCain was nowhere to be found," said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Every other Member who received a zero from LCV last year at least had the temerity to show up and vote against the environment and clean energy time after time. And unlike John McCain, I doubt any of them would claim to be environmental leaders or champions on global warming."
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This rating was for 2007 btw.

So, he may talk alot about environmental issues, but he ranks dead last in the senate on his environmental record. So when the horsepucky starts flyin, remember his actual vote - or lack thereof. He may know that environmental issues are important, but I cannot believe that he would actually support them.