25 Deadly Sins - Just the Beginning of the John McCain Story

1. He publicly decries the influence of lobbyists in Washington, but has accepted more campaign contributions from lobbyists than any other candidate by far.
2. He has admitted on many occasions that he does not understand economics – but denies saying this during debates.
3. He voted against Bush tax cuts twice saying they “benefited the rich” – but now says it was because spending cuts weren’t attached to the bill.
4. He tried to push an amnesty bill down our throats (McCain-Kennedy) but denied it was amnesty for illegals because they would be required to pay a small fine to become citizens.
5. He was the only Republican member of the Keating Five savings and loan scandal, which cost taxpayers over $3 Billion.
6. He made over 32 propaganda tapes for the Viet Cong suggesting that American’s primarily targeted schools, hospitals, children.
7. He has been the main obstacle to bills in the senate related to helping families find missing POWs/MIAs from the Korean and Viet Nam wars.
8. He opposes drilling for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge – although only 0.5% of ANWR land would potentially be used for oil production. He even put ANWR on the same footing as the Grand Canyon.
9. He authored the McCain-Feingold Bill, which severely limits free speech in campaigns.
10. He graduated 5^th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy – wasting his time there while being supported by taxpayers.
11.  He married his mistress after his 1^st wife was severely injured in a car accident.
12.  He has been at the head of normalizing relations with Viet Nam and China while his father-in-law became a major beer distributor in Viet Nam and China.
13.  He was endorsed by the New York Times.
14.  He is very “close friends” with Hillary Clinton, according to both him and Bill Clinton.
15.  He told the Viet Cong the flight paths and targets of US aircraft, endangering the lives of his fellow airmen.
16.  His campaign is run by lobbyists – He has more than double the number of lobbyists on his campaign staff than any other Republican or Democratic candidate.
17.  His economic platform consists of cutting pork barrel spending – which sounds good, but will hardly have any impact on the US budget or economy.
18.  He supports the carbon cap and tax approach to global warming, which will cost the US tens of trillions of dollars and make almost no impact (think India and China).
19.  He has no understanding of business, business accounting, taxes, job creation on the private sector – his promise is essentially “your jobs aren’t coming back”.
20.  He publicly rails against government earmarks and says he has never asked for earmarks – however he has asked for earmarks for Arizona on several occasions.
21. He constantly states that he was the only one supporting the troop surge in Iraq, although that has been proven to be blatantly false.
22.  He has a hair trigger temper – he’s cursed at fellow senators in committee on various occasions.
23.  He has had skin cancer twice and is 71 years old.
24.  He was negotiating with the Democrats about switching parties and being John Kerry’s running mate – he denies this now, but its been confirmed by his own aides.
25.  He is the Republican the liberal media wants to win the Republican nomination – they’ll have a field day with all the skeletons in his closet.

Bonus 1 – He was less conservative than 78% of other Republicans in the senate (American Conservative Union).

Bonus II – Helped form the Gang of 14 to further stick it to Republicans.