The John McCain Package

Now that the front runners for the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates have surfaced, it is time, belatedly for most voters, to scrutinize their qualifications of being the Commander-in-Chief. In a responsible environment, this action would have been discharged before casting the first caucus ballot.

Political pundits that rebuke voters and the media for not delving into the issues of the candidates in the stead of focusing on the person, their race, their gender or their religion–is, at best, sophomoric political counsel. Before casting a vote for a candidate, especially for the office of the President, one should do at the very least a perfunctory political due diligence of the candidates contemplated.

The minimum consideration of a candidate should be: The person, the candidate’s character, the issues they represent, the probable cabinet nominations they would add to their administration, the probable judicial characteristics they are likely to be guided by when nominating federal jurist and Supreme Court jurist, their endorsements, and their political trending. The culmination of the preceding concerns should be the standard investigation for any voter endowed with common sense before casting their vote.

In disregarding and reckless fashion, many plebiscites rarely penetrate the veneer of a candidate. Some voters settle for just a fraction of the person running–perhaps never looking beyond their gender, race, or religious affiliation. Some voters will vote for Hillary Clinton solely because she is a women, or vote for Barack Obama only because he is black. The scenario could be reversed and a vote not cast for Clinton only because she is a woman, or a vote against Obama because he is black. Same with religion. Some will vote against Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon.

The capriciousness of voters, an affliction for not prescribing to the above stated political vetting process, causes the wild swings in the polling numbers due to last minute susceptibility to slick marketing adds by the candidates, therefore causing the ever fickle plaudits of voters–which they could have been inoculated against with information.

John McCain, after his decisive win in the Florida primary, has moved into Republican front runner status. Thus making it belatedly appropriate to increase the microscopic magnification a notch or two on this political specimen.

Political trending is an effective method of political forecasting. Mitt Romney has been assailed for his past political record being socially liberal in instances. But he has trended towards a much more conservative stance on the same issues. If Romney stays the course, he will evolve into a more traditional conservative. McCain, in antithetical fashion, in the past few years, has trended hard and fast to the left. If McCain stays the course, in a very short while, he will have evolved into the standard neo-liberal that has infected the current Democrat party.

A candidate with a long documented political record cannot evade the manifestation of their stance on issues. There is no better way for their issues to elucidate themselves than to research the legislation they have sponsored and legislation they have voted on. To clarify John McCain’s stance on issues, his most recent legislation and voting record in Congress:

• The McCain-Kennedy Act was the immigration bill that caused the unprecedented grassroots revolution from the American populace to jam every phone line to every member of Congress insisting they vote against it. The bill offered wholesale amnesty to every illegal alien in the United States. Not only did he write and sponsor the bill, he has recently stated he would sign it into law if he were President.
• The McCain- Feingold Act was nothing less than the constitutional censorship of the 1st Amendment. A government agency can now screen and suppress political information before it reaches voters.
• McCain was a cosponsor of the Dream Act, S. 774. This bill would have given in-state tuition to illegal aliens while still forcing citizens to pay out of state tuition.
• McCain voted for an amendment to S. 2611 that would have mandated that the Mexican government be consulted before construction of any part of the border fence.
• McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act would have added an additional 50 cent tax to a gallon of gasoline and increase the cost of gas utility bills by 20%. This act is the U.S. version of the imbecilic Kyoto Protocol.
• McCain Anti-Torture Amendment would have allowed due-process rights to terrorists thus allowing them to access to U.S. courts. McCain wants Guantanamo Bay closed and the detainees brought to the U.S. prison system and court system.
• McCain voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens.
• McCain is a proponent of universal health care coverage.
• McCain voted twice against Bush’s tax cuts.

A John McCain probable Supreme Court nomination presents a dichotomy. John Fund quoted McCain as saying he would be more inclined to nominate someone like John Roberts than Samuel Alito, who “wears his conservatism on his sleeve.” When asked “Wouldn’t it be great if you get a chance to name somebody like Roberts and Alito? McCain said, “Well, certainly Roberts.” McCain also voted to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court.

The McCain-Feingold Act is, up to this point, considered by John McCain and the act’s proponents as one of his finest legislative achievements. The McCain-Feingold Act leads McCain into the murky waters of appointing a Supreme Court Justice. The McCain-Feingold act, in all actuality, is unconstitutional, and has had a few close brushes with the Supreme Court. If McCain does nominate someone in the mold of Roberts, Alito, Scalia or Thomas, there is a higher probability that the McCain-Feingold Act could be ruled unconstitutional. McCain knows this. To believe that McCain would not try and walk a fine line with a Supreme Court appointment and the protection of his act, would be intellectually disingenuous.

You can judge a person by the company they keep, or in the case of a politician, by who endorses them. McCain’s endorsers are a virtual who’s who of apostatically defective Republican politicians and liberal media. Among the RINOs (Republican in Name Only) who have endorsed McCain are California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, Democrat Congressman Joe Lieberman. McCain has been endorsed by the rabidly anti-American publications, The New York Times and the LA Times. The liberal media is fawning all over McCain, at this point, because he has spent the past ten years denigrating the Republican party and conservative ideology.

It is still too early to venture a guess who McCain would add to his cabinet. It would not, though, be out of line to take a hard look at the people he has surrounded himself with and make a reasonable conjecture as to who might be in line for a cabinet position.

McCain has added to his campaign staff Juan Hernandez. Hernandez is a fanatical open borders zealot. Hernandez holds duel citizenship status with the U.S. and Mexico and worked in Vicente Fox’s administration.

McCain has also added Jerry Perenchio to his campaign staff. Perienchio was responsible for the millions of dollars spent in California to stop the schools from teaching English to foreign language speaking students and wanted foreign language speaking students to be taught in their native tongue. Perenchio owns Univision. He has the capability to control what enters 40 million Hispanics ears through Spanish speaking television.

Perhaps one or both of these open borders advocates can be assured of a cabinet position. Hernandez would fit into McCain’s idea of Director of DHS. Perhaps Arnold Schwarzenegger could be become Secretary of Education. Rick Perry could become the Secretary of Transportation.

While McCain is a strong advocate for the war in Iraq and wears it like a badge demonstrating his national defense and anti-terrorism prowess , he is as weak on national defense as George Bush. No one, including presiding President George Bush, can legitimately claim to be strong on national security and terrorism, while placating a third world country, whose President advocates the chronic and illegal breeching of our borders, and demonstrate unadulterated indifference to the estimated 20 million illegal aliens that reside within our borders.

If it calls itself a Republican yet it looks like a liberal, walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal, and surrounds itself with liberals–it’s probably a liberal wrapped in a Republican package.