Comments on: How McCain Helps the Democrats http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/05/how-mccain-helps-the-democrats/ A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Sarah http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/05/how-mccain-helps-the-democrats/#comment-225 Sarah Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:01 +0000 http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/05/how-mccain-helps-the-democrats/#comment-225 That's sort of reassuring, but I think it's actually really frightening how everyone thinks McCain is some sort of liberal, fake Republican. He's NOT, he is actually very conservative. Check out this opinion piece about him, which points out how hawkish and pro-war he his: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/348434_mccainonline24.html?source=mypi And he is of course completely ANTI-family (to co-opt the phrase the radical right uses; it boils my blood to hear them act like they actually care about families) - anti-choice, anti-reproductive rights in general, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, etc. So what worries me is that if he is the nominee, some Democrats and independents will vote for him rather than the Democratic nominee, because of this illusion that he is somehow liberal. That’s sort of reassuring, but I think it’s actually really frightening how everyone thinks McCain is some sort of liberal, fake Republican. He’s NOT, he is actually very conservative. Check out this opinion piece about him, which points out how hawkish and pro-war he his: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/348434_mccainonline24.html?source=mypi

And he is of course completely ANTI-family (to co-opt the phrase the radical right uses; it boils my blood to hear them act like they actually care about families) - anti-choice, anti-reproductive rights in general, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, etc.

So what worries me is that if he is the nominee, some Democrats and independents will vote for him rather than the Democratic nominee, because of this illusion that he is somehow liberal.

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