No surprises this weekend as Mitt Romney won in Nevada and McCain in South Carolina. Although South Carolina was a close call, McCain wins due to the large military presence in that state. This goes to show you that this race is very tight and requires immense scrutiny of the candidates if we are every going to pick the right man for the job. In the past week there has been a little battle in talk radio land between Michael Medved and several of his colleagues. Although, I only was able to hear Laura Ingraham’s response to Medved’s Townhall blog, I will assume that several others probably read it and commented on it. Medved likes Mike Huckabee and John McCain, this is obvious and more power to him. One thing that may bother me about any host is that they must remember that if their audience may or may not agree with them. I certainly do not agree with Medved or John McCain 100%.

John McCain has his mistakes listed on his website as REAL issues:

1) John McCain believes taxes should be low, simple, and fair and has a track record of commitment to these principles.

Why did he vote against tax cut plans/bills by President Bush and others in Congress? Because he does not believe in lower taxes. Everyone on Wall Street agreed that the tax cut plan by the President was the catalyst for the gains in the economy. Apparently McCain never got that memo.

2) McCain on Border Security and Immigration Reform : I have always believed that our border must be secure and that the federal government has utterly failed in its responsibility to ensure that it is secure. If we have learned anything from the recent immigration debate, it is that Americans have little trust that their government will honor a pledge to do the things necessary to make the border secure.

Well we all know where he stands on this issue. This is a LIE. The only part of this statement that’s true is that we Americans do not trust the Government to take care of this issue. We certainly do not trust McCain to come up with immigration reform. He has no interest in securing the border properly otherwise he never would have said “I’ll give you your G.D. fence” (fill in the blanks). He also created one of the worst bills in history while working with Ted Kennedy, the Immigration Reform Act. This IRA was code for amnesty and open borders. Of course the American people spoke up and that bill was killed. I wonder if President McCain would sign that bill. I wonder if he will really build that G.D. Fence? -- Probably not.

3) John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench. Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.

McCain does not want to involve the Supreme Court in the reversal of Roe v. Wade. He would rather have states decide if abortion is legal or not. This is not a major problem, but then of course you would have kids going from one state to another to have abortions, creating it a federal situation. How do you handle that John? As usual, check the ID? Also, if he was PROLIFE why would he put his name on a brief filed last year to the Supreme Court (of all bodies) denouncing a pro life organizations commercials? Calling their commercials a violation of the law he and Russ Feingold created. McCain-Feingold at its finest. You can read about it here: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200706/NAT20070625d.html
Yes that was last year, but how quickly we forget.

I do respect McCain on his service to our country in the armed forces as well as his support for our troops. I will not leave out that he and I do agree on several issues including education choice, certain parts of his national security policy (sans border fence) and the Second Amendment. But many of these are not the top issues and I certainly cannot vote for someone who is misleading Republicans. Is McCain a Republican? Perhaps, but a bit too left wing to be considered CONSERVATIVE. McCain has made decisions in his past that proves that he is not the man to be President, especially in 2008.