Isent voting for mccain just giving bush another term in office. ?

Question

really, arent their policies pretty similar.

Answer 1

YES...

Answer 2

Yes.

Answer 3

No, they are not the same person.  McCain didn't agree with Bush at all when he took office.  They have to support each other because they both support the Republican party.  

Answer 4

Bush and McCain are twins.  McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time.

Answer 5

Not exactly. No one is identical.

Besides things like 911, etc...can have a different impact.

Where we are in the economic cycles is important to choice.

I vote Republican for economic reasons..It has to do with more versus less Government, Taxes, etc..and what is best/optimal for the economy. Though..read below..for differences on these two.

"McCain voted against the tax cuts and the tax cuts were a good thing. This is true. However, to call him a liberal because he opposed it is very misguided. A democrat wants to buy votes by giving away taxpayer money through government programs. A republican wants to buy taxpayer votes by cutting taxes. A CONSERVATIVE wants to cut spending so they can cut taxes and the people can keep the money they have worked so hard to earn. In this stance, President Bush is the republican and John McCain is the conservative. It was a very conservative position to tell the President that he needed to cut spending in order to get tax cuts. It wasn't fiscally conservative of the President to cut taxes and then go one the biggest government spending spree since LBJ. Let's face it, John McCain was right about this. His position on this tells me that he would be MUCH better as a fiscal conservative than President Bush"

So they are not the same.

Thanks for asking..I'm starting to feel much better about McCain as Commander in Chief already.

You are a genius.

Answer 6

When you vote Republican, it doesn't matter WHICH Republican you are voting for. You're not voting for the man, his ideas, his agenda, but for the party agenda.

McCain learned this the hard way.  In the 2000 election he was the 'maverick', the guy who had his own ideas.  He disagreed with the party on some issues.  The powerful party leaders didn't want him, they wanted GW Bush, a man with no ideas of his own, who would just read what they put in front of him.  Before the primary season even began they had already chosen Bush and lined up all the money behind him.  So when McCain won the New Hampshire Primary, the party destroyed his candidacy with a brutal smear campaign.

McCain decided to come back and be a party man, a team player.  He endorsed Bush.  He flip-flopped on many issues to align himself with the standard party positions.  And in this election ALL the candidates had all the same positions and opinions on all the issues that were important to the party leadership.  McCain won because he happened to be the least flawed.

So yes, McCain really is 'more of the same'.  The people in charge of his administration, the policy makers and decision makers, will be the same people as in the Bush administration.  The choice really is between The Same and Change, even though Obama hasn't done the greatest job of specifying the change.

Answer 7

i think so

Answer 8

Yes. McCain supports all the current Bush administration policies.

They butted heads over some things (particularly, before 2006 and especially back in 2000) But recently McCain has fallen in line with the party on all major issues.

McCain may not be a 'true conservative' but neither is Bush. Neither is the Republican party for that matter.

Answer 9

No.  McCain and Bush butted heads over several major policies.  But liberals have too short a memory to know this.

Answer 10

McCain is not a true conservative like Bush, he holds more moderate policies. I am really tired of people using the line that you just used about electing McCain and that would be the same as giving Bush another term. Their policies are similar in some respects, but they don't hold the same beliefs. Would you rather have Obama in there who hates America, has no experience, and couldn't tell you the issues without looking at a teleprompter?

Answer 11

With Palin on board, it now truly is "four more years of bush".....

(sorry, had to)

Answer 12

yes but i's beter than obama.....And im black