Main Street was proud to present Senator McCain with our Chafee Award for his leadership on issues of critical importance to centrist Republicans across the nation.
Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, Executive Director of Main Street
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
Sen. John McCain 2006 ACU rating in the US Senate is higher at 65 than any Democratic Party Senator. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) has an ACU rating of 64. There were only 8 GOP Senators who had a lower ACU rating than McCain. That list includes:
Lincoln Chafee 24
Olympia Snowe 36
Arlen Specter 43
Susan Collins 48
George Voinovich 56
John Warner 64
Richard Lugar 64
Ted Stevens 64
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
Sen. John McCain's stated position for opposing the Bush tax cuts.
I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief.
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
On a February, 23, 2005 edition of Meet the Press
Tim Russert:
Would you support as part of the solution to Social Security's solvency problem, that you lift the cap so that you would pay payroll tax, Social Security tax, not just on the first $90,000 of your income, but perhaps even higher?
Senator McCain:
As part of a compromise I could . . . I'm proud of the job that Senator Lindsey Graham has been doing in his leadership position on this issue and showing some courage.
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
Sen John McCain's leadership brought passage of an "incumbent protection act", officially named McCain-Feingold. Pat Toomey at Club for Growth put it this way
In defense of the provision banning issue advocacy ads that mention a candidate 60 days before an election, McCain said, "These ads are almost always negative attack ads, and do little to further beneficial debate and healthy political dialogue." In his brief to the Supreme Court, Senator McCain continued along the same lines: "These ads are direct, blatant attacks on the candidates. We don't think that's right."
Thus, Senator McCain and his partner in crime, Senator Russ Feingold, have anointed themselves the arbiters of appropriate political speech, worthy of deciphering which speech is "right" and which should be permitted in American political debate. To this day, Senator McCain remains responsible for the greatest modern infringement of political free speech. While bestowing significant advantages upon incumbent office holders, this feat has created neither a less corrupt political domain nor a more democratic one.
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
In a room just off the Senate floor Sen. John McCain had the following to say to Sen John Cornyn
F- - - you! This is chickens- - - stuff! You've always been against this bill, and you're just trying to derail it. I know more about this stuff than anybody in this room.
Talking this way to John Cornyn who has an ACU rating of 96.
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
Sen. John McCain gave a speech in Seattle WA. just shortly before his formal announcement that he is running for POTUS. After the speech, McCain was asked by an audience member if he was "sucking up to the religious right." He drew laughs by responding: "What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"
Proud Republican? - Yes Proud Conservative? - No
Sen. John McCain may very well win the GOP nomination, and I will hold my nose, and vote for him as the lesser of two evils. But nobody, and I mean nobody is ever going to convince me that John McCain is a "Proud Conservative". I disagree with some that think he is not a Republican. That is ridiculous. He has campaigned hard for Senate Republicans like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Gordon Smith, and Norm Coleman. He has also campaigned hard for the "Trojan Horse S-Chip Republicans" that Michelle Malkin has written an excellent blog about. For those reasons I can call McCain a "Proud Republican". This kind of Republican "Brand" is offensive to me, but we only elected 2 conservative Presidents in the 20th Century, Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan. It is just so rare to enter the booth at a polling site and proudly cast the vote. It's much more frequent to slither into the booth, hold your nose, and choose the lesser of two evils.
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