McCain's Voting Record: Voting with Bush 95% of the Time

The Democrats primary attack and slogan against John McCain's campaign is that he voted 95% of the time with Bush's policies and "McCain More of the Same." There is no doubt that this is a sound political strategy. President George W. Bush's popularity ratings at an all time low in the upper to mid 20's. That makes him about the least popular president in the last 30 years if not more. So it doesn't take a great political mind to figure out that tying McCain to Bush gives you a political platform to run against when you have made yourself out to be the candidate of "change."

Has it been a bad thing to have voted in favor of Bush's policies 95% of the time? If you ask your average liberal to name 3 of Bush's policies to use their percentage 95% of them will not be able to name but one, yes the Iraq war. When you press them to name two more is when they begin their psycho babble and attempt to deflect the question because they simply don't know. They are like cattle, once one of them chooses a course they all follow not knowing why but that one of their own decided to move westerly so there they all go. So let's address their one and only answer, the Iraq war.

Let us Republicans not make the same mistake and begin our own psycho babble trying to justify a completely stupid and badly managed policy. Let's admit it was one of the dumbest decisions he could have made. He was so interested in being the cowboy that Ronald Reagan (greatest president we Republicans have had in modern history) brilliantly pulled off. When he flew in on the fighter jet to declare "mission accomplished," I thought he had gone mad. That very moment I knew this would blow up in his face. And here we are today.

This decision and this decision alone has been the root of all the evils we are encountering. He went into this war with no preparation and no contingency plan in case it dragged on more than his inner circle of trusted adviser's believed. Forget the fact that he used bogus and unsubstantiated intelligence that Hussein had WMDs. He made the executive decision to attack and attack he did. Freshly recovering from 9/11 everyone gave him the go ahead, their bad judgement to bare as well. The true war was in Afghanistan and all resources should have been put there until the leader of the billion crazy Muslims was brought to justice, Osama Bin Laden. Yes you liberals can begin you attacks now about how I am a Muslim racist and that most Muslims are not extremist. I ask, how many came out and publicly denounce the attacks and insist that the wrath of God be brought down upon them for the attacks on 9/11 on our homeland? A hand full? Yes, at most a hand full and that was much later after the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment was on a rise in the US and many other parts of the world.

Getting back to the decision to go to war in Iraq and how it was an obvious mistake that is now the root cause of many of the countries problems. The economy has suffered because of the high cost of the war. One thing is to have a deficit that is manageable but when it reaches unprecedented levels as it is now, it will affect the economy. Oil prices have skyrocketed because of the instability in the area because of the war. Though the recent increases are really due to speculators, the war has given them the opportunity. Again, the war is undoubtedly at the root of the federal deficits. The broken immigration system has been brought to the forefront because of the war and Congress's inability to deal with it is tied to wars debate. And a laundry list of effects can be attributed to the war and its failed management of it.

Now that we are in the war and there is no easy solution to it. Bringing our troops home sounds easy and it certainly appeals to the anti-war movement that continues to grow, as the polls show, that isn't the best solution either. This will only energize the lunatic Islamists to continue their jihad. President Bush having decided to put the country into a silly war in Iraq and having realized that "mission accomplished" wasn't the end he needed to send holy hell into Iraq until the insurgents begged for mercy. You can not run a compassionate war! If the surge has been successful imagine what a total annihilation would have done. This war would have been long over. Instead we are in the midst of another Vietnam war.

Other than that, have Bush's other policies been bad? He has advocated a trickle down economic policy similar to the brilliant one that Ronald Reagan gave us. By the way, and I am going to say his over and over again, THE GREATEST ECONOMIC EXPANSION IS BECAUSE OF RONALD REAGAN, NOT BILL CLINTON. IN AN ECONOMIC POLICY LIKE REAGAN'S THERE IS A LAG PERIOD FOR ALL SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY TO FEEL THE BENEFITS. THIS OCCURRED DURING CLINTON'S EIGHT YEARS. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CLINTON, HE WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT WHILE REAGAN'S ECONOMICS BROUGHT THE GREATEST EXPANSION EVER.

Many might argue that we are feeling the effects of Bill Clinton's failed economic policies because those have lag periods as well. President Bush other than the Iraq war has had many good policies, many that have been stalled or rejected by the Democratically elected majority in Congress. So McCain's 95% voting record of supporting George W. Bush's policies show good judgement despite what Obama's campaign and the herd of liberal cattle want you to believe.