The McCain detractors come from liberal and conservative ilk. It is obvious that those of liberal bent don’t approve of John McCain because he dislikes pork barrel spending. Those that like to waste government funds raised by taxes don’t want the hay day to end. No matter that the federal government’s debt is soaring and we have been lowered to borrowing from China.

The liberal crowd doesn’t care for his stance on the Iraq war either. It seems they prefer terrorists to defending the United States against them. They have preference for a president that will try to talk our enemies to death. That is talking persuasion and carrying no stick at all.

Those for partial birth abortion dislike McCain’s stance on abortion. What part of the word birth don’t they understand? Also, they would rather that people other than their parents, which McCain is against, could take teenage girls across state lines for an abortion.

People that don’t understand that the United States was traditionally based on Christianity can’t stand McCain. They refute the fact that the bible was the first book printed by the federal government and distributed to schools. Does this sound like the Constitution meant separation of church and state? The idea was not to have a State Church like the Anglican Church in England.

McCain has been aligned with the pragmatists conservatives and the neo-conservatives don’t approve of some of his stances. McCain’s lifetime rating with the American conservative Union is 82.3% - definitely a score that agitates liberals and not conservative enough for neo-conservatives. They think that preemptive military action to stop our enemies is justifiable, while being a pragmatist conservative McCain is less of a war hawk.

Though he was against the Alternative Minimum Tax Act, McCain voted unfavorably to conservatives on the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. McCain believes in a cap and trade bill for limiting carbon dioxide emissions that infuriates far right conservatives and he agrees that an immigration reform bill giving illegal aliens citizenship is a good move. That definitely isn’t popular with stanch conservatives.

To get where the rubber meets the road - staunch conservatives call McCain a deviationist. He can’t veer in his opinions one bit from the ultra conservative party line and please them. His stance on the federal government buying problematic mortgage loans angered many economic conservatives. They saw this as rewarding lenders that mishandled their jobs. Thus, economic conservatives spoke out against McCain on this issue.

It is a fact that John McCain is disliked by some conservatives and by liberals. At least both groups disapprove of some of his ideas and policies. It seems that it doesn’t pay to have a different opinion at times because then a politician is coloring outside of party lines. But even if he does that on some issues most liberals forget it so that they don’t view him favorably either. Some conservatives and most liberals dislike John McCain. Maybe that shows he actually thinks for himself.

Tristan Andrews is a freelance author who writes articles about Political Games and Obama.

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