Show us the facts to support your lie that McCain is 85% liberal and 15% conservative.
His equivocation on the situation in Iraq is perhaps his latest example. He stated one thing, then for the media’s sake, took it all back, stating that Iraq was basically as bad as ever.
He has countless other occasions in which he says one thing in one context, only to completely go against it in another.
McCain has continued to argue against the Bush tax cuts (conservatives generally don’t like giving money to government), fought against conservatives for his brain-dead campaign finance reform approach which he got (conservatives don’t support government telling us where we can donate our monies), and has fought to break up media companies (conservatives generally believe shareholders (owners) should be the ones to determine what happens with their money).
Even the Democrats' own website states this:
This morning’s appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press was just the latest stop on John McCain’s double talk express. McCain has tried to cast himself as a straight shooter, yet his answers to important issues continue to shift. Since 2000, John McCain has changed his position on abortion, gay marriage, creationism, and tax cuts. But one recent admission by John McCain appears to be true. As Russert noted, John McCain told America in a recent interview that he “doesn’t like to lose.”
“This morning, Senator John McCain embraced a man he once called an ‘evil influence’ on the Republican Party,” said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. “McCain has changed his position so many times that Americans can’t know where he stands on anything. Unfortunately, it appears that McCain’s admission that he ‘doesn’t like to lose’ is the most straight talk voters should expect from him for the next two years.”
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/04/mccain_takes_th.php
Unfortunately, I have to give the Democratic party props for seeing, on this one occasion, some semblance of the ‘double-talk’ truth McCain is known for.
If you’d like to read more about McCain and how “unconservative” he is, you might like reading this essay from the Washington Monthly:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.green.html
Enjoy.