Is John McCain the liberal republican of years past, or has he been converted to a neo-con like Bush?

Question

Is John McCain the liberal republican of years past, or has he been converted to a neo-con like Bush?

Answer 1

Are you kidding Bush is a liberal, he spends money like a drunken Democrat, started more big government programs and refuses to take action to close the border, I wish he were a conservative.

Answer 2

He will be a figurehead like Reagan in his second term.  What he does depends on who his "advisers" are.

Answer 3

He is a liberal republican who has voted for 95% of Bush's policies. He is another Bush, no doubt.

Answer 4

The John McCain of the 2000 campaign would never consider voting for the current version.  Although he was always supportive of Bush's fiasco in Iraq, and he trumpeted Rumsfeld's handling of the war (before he was against him), McCain has transformed into a candidate who is out completely of touch (or ignoring) with his own morals (pro-torture) and standards (pandering to the religious right after rightly calling Robertson, Falwell, etc. "agents of intolerance".  Also, McCain correctly spoke out and twice voted against Bush's deplorable tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% before he decided winning was more important than ethics.  John McCain is indeed McBush--or the failed Bush policies on steroids.  

Answer 5

he's gonna travel the path most trodden....the trail that Bush blazed

Answer 6

I wouldn't use the label "neo-con."  

But he is kissing up to the religious right!  The very folks he called "Agent of Intolerance"

His view on fiscal issues are only slightly different.  He is still very much NOT a big spender like Bush.  

But he is acting like a member of the religious right!  The fact that he is NOT a member of the religious right is what I like aobut McCain.  When I hear him kissing up to the Religious Right, I actually find myself hoping he is being a hypocrite.

One of the reasons he got labeled as a liberal republican is because he would vote against prograns

Answer 7

uh, he's more like a republipandercrat.  he's full of his self-importance and wants to be liked by the media and the democrats so much that he will introduce legislation to kill the heart of the first amendment, let wide open the borders to illegal aliens, and stick his middle finger out to libertarians, and limited government conservatives.

BTW, personally, I think he really hates GWB

Answer 8

Bush-lite

Answer 9

McCain is changing his spots, a good example is changing his stance on a bill he co-authored.  It has to make you wonder is he changing just to get elected, saying anything that will get him votes?  What does he believe, it's impossible to tell, he has changed his opinion on so many issues, I can't tell what his opinions actually are.

Answer 10

The last 8 years he has voted in line with the presdient wishes 85% of the time.        He has flip floped on the Bush tax cuts and off shore drilling.       The only thing he has a diffrent veiw on is that he does believe in global warming.  He just wont do any thing about it.   So that is kind of the same there.

Answer 11

McCain has always been a hawk when it comes to National Security.  No conversion there.  He's also been strongly in favor of cutting excess gov't spending, so no conversion there either.

He has flipped on tax cuts, much to his credit.  But then tax cuts aren't really a neo-con thing any more then they are an old-fashioned conservative thing.

Answer 12

He is an undeveloped democrat.

Answer 13

no.  A neo-con I assume means neo-conservative or new conservative.  I can say with confidence that McCain is like me, a paleo-con or old conservative.  Conservative are what liberals become when they grow up, pay taxes, and have children.