OK, and he was a sane senator who showed occasional independence. Did he ever try to bust a trust, though? He was one of the Keating Five, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K….
OK, and he was a sane senator who showed occasional independence. Did he ever try to bust a trust, though? He was one of the Keating Five, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five.
I'm just pointing out what McCain believed. By contrast to today's GOP, McCain had more in common with Teddy Roosevelt as far as being a conservationist and pro-environment (although even McCain's environmental voting record while better to most in the GOP today was more mixed).
If I am able to find more of what was mentioned in this article about this topic, I'll share in this comment or a separate one.
Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of “those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”
“I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
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Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified with him as a fellow reformer and environmentalist and also touched on his assertive foreign policy. The choice might to some extent be an indication of how Mr. McCain would like to position himself now that he has moved from the primary to the general election.
“I believe less governance is the best governance, and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and individual entrepreneurship and the states can do, but I also believe there is a role for government,” Mr. McCain said. He added: “Government should take care of those in America who can not take care of themselves.”
OK, and he was a sane senator who showed occasional independence. Did he ever try to bust a trust, though? He was one of the Keating Five, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five.
I'm just pointing out what McCain believed. By contrast to today's GOP, McCain had more in common with Teddy Roosevelt as far as being a conservationist and pro-environment (although even McCain's environmental voting record while better to most in the GOP today was more mixed).
If I am able to find more of what was mentioned in this article about this topic, I'll share in this comment or a separate one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13mccain.html
I just got more from the NY Times article, which was published on July 13th, over a month before the 2008 RNC Convention:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13mccain.html
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Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of “those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”
“I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
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Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified with him as a fellow reformer and environmentalist and also touched on his assertive foreign policy. The choice might to some extent be an indication of how Mr. McCain would like to position himself now that he has moved from the primary to the general election.
“I believe less governance is the best governance, and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and individual entrepreneurship and the states can do, but I also believe there is a role for government,” Mr. McCain said. He added: “Government should take care of those in America who can not take care of themselves.”
Cool. He waffled a lot on stuff like that, but at least he was not an extremist and thought for himself.