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  1. Truth Teller
    September 20, 2008,

    He was a member of the Keating Five a deal that was corrupt. look around over the past 8 years if the deal is dirty and sleazy the repuks were in on it Ney in Ohio, Duke Cunningham in Cal Stevens in Alaska

  2. delawaredem
    September 20, 2008,

    McCain has always been a Reagan conservative.

    A belief in deregulation. A hostility to unions. Fighting for the privatization of Social Security. A constant opposition to Rove v. Wade. A belief in trickle down economic theory established under Reagan.

    The only three reasons conservatives were suspicious of his credentials were 1) his stance on global warming (he believes the fact that it exists, instead of being a denier), 2) his opposition to Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2002, but he has since flip flopped on that opposition; and 3) his statements that Falwell and Robertson were agents of intolerance, which he has also backed away from in order to win the nomination.

  3. Unstable Isotope
    September 20, 2008,

    He really, really believes in the free market. He wrote this, apparently:

    Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

  5. Unstable Isotope
    September 20, 2008,

    OK, well the link for McCain’s words are being held up in your spam filter, but you can find it at Krugman’s NYT blog as well as other sources.

  8. Steve Newton
    September 20, 2008,

    DD
    To your list of why conservatives are suspicious of McCain

    They distrust him for

    1) McCain-Feingold which they see as having crippled their soft money machine without hurting the Dems

    2) McCain on immigration

    3) McCain and his participation in the “gang of 14” on Federal judge appointments

    I don’t think it is accurate to call McCain a Reagan conservative, because I think he is basically an opportunistic pragmatist who doesn’t really have any core ideological values of any sort–other than that he values McCain winning.

  9. Unstable Isotope
    September 20, 2008,

    Steve,

    I totally agree. I don’t think John McCain has any core conviction except in the greatness of John McCain.

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