Word: mccains
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This year, Americans’ top concern was the economy, yet John McCain failed to address it adequately. McCain dwelt on his commitment to cut taxes and halt earmarks, but voters were more concerned about a stable healthcare system and family finances. After three Republican presidents in thirty years, taxes and spending lack the political salience they once had. Today, four in five taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes and some 29 million Americans pay no income tax at all. Republicans have become victims of their success; they must extend their focus to more...
...flip side, many activists complain McCain was soft on Obama’s connections to Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. But a recent New York Times/CBS poll found that voters who rejected McCain in the final stretch cited his persistent attacks on Obama’s character as one of their main reasons for doing so. While Obama’s associations were fair game, they ultimately seemed irrelevant, and McCain’s harping on them revealed a lack of innovative ideas on more important issues...
...It’s no secret to those around me just how badly I wanted John McCain to become the 44th President of the United States. I grew up in Arizona, the very state McCain represents, and my political coming of age was largely tied up in his own political ascendancy. I remember accompanying family members to the polls to cast their votes for McCain in the 2000 GOP Primary, which he eventually lost to George W. Bush. I’ve never been a great Bush fan—I probably would’ve voted for John Kerry...
...believed that McCain could be that change. Earlier this year, when McCain finally clenched the GOP nomination, I wept tears of joy, much to the bewildered disgust of my liberal friends. To me, the prospect of a McCain presidency was the realization of my conservative dreams. Like many of his supporters, I had always believed that McCain’s biggest political stumbling block was winning a party nomination. I figured that a general election victory would be a breeze, because he appealed to so many moderates. Obviously, I have been proven wrong by this election cycle...
...Before anyone knew the name Barack Obama, there was a time when John McCain was a media darling. Though they’ve now been reduced to parody, the terms “maverick” and “straight talk” once really meant something to voters. McCain was not afraid to diverge from the Republican Party line, and he led the way in conservative support for embryonic stem cell research, gun control, and environmental causes. He gained a reputation for bipartisanship for his work on campaign finance and immigration reform. McCain represented a brand of conservatism...