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How would mccain have voted on kavanaugh? (Original Post) TheHak Oct 2018 OP
McCain was a conservative. He would have gone along with Flake Azathoth Oct 2018 #1
Meghan is pro Kavenaugh mainstreetonce Oct 2018 #2
For him- he was terrible on SCOTUS Adenoid_Hynkel Oct 2018 #3
He absolutely would have voted yes. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #4
Exactly. McCain was not notably a social conservative, Hortensis Oct 2018 #15
He would have attacked Dr. Ford, just like rest of them. Hoyt Oct 2018 #5
YES budkin Oct 2018 #6
Probably would have voted yes. JHan Oct 2018 #7
McCain would have been a solid yes. roamer65 Oct 2018 #8
Yes meadowlark5 Oct 2018 #9
McCain was a Republican. dalton99a Oct 2018 #10
He would have voted yes SharonClark Oct 2018 #11
He would have supported Kavanaugh as much as he madville Oct 2018 #12
Quit mythologizing McCain. He was a Rightwing Republican and would have been a yes. Nt LostOne4Ever Oct 2018 #13
Yes melman Oct 2018 #14
Conjecture. Get Simena elected to the seat Flake now hold. Blue_true Oct 2018 #16

Azathoth

(4,608 posts)
1. McCain was a conservative. He would have gone along with Flake
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 11:05 PM
Oct 2018

Demanded a pro forma investigation because he wanted to respect "regular order," then voted for Kavanaugh in the end.

 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
3. For him- he was terrible on SCOTUS
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 11:08 PM
Oct 2018

Backed the Garland theft 100 percent

Also voted for Gorsuch, Roberts, Alito and Thomas

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)
4. He absolutely would have voted yes.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 11:16 PM
Oct 2018

There's this weird and completely wrong mythology that McCain is some sort of liberal. He's not. He never has been. Don't forget that he voted against Kagan and Sotomayor. He voted against the Martin Luther King Holiday. He voted against the ACA in the first place, and his last vote about it was simply a giant Fuck You to Trump, not from any actual change of heart.

The list goes on and on. He never was a friend to Democrats, and he'd be gleefully trashing Blasey Ford and voting to confirm Kavanaugh.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Exactly. McCain was not notably a social conservative,
Sat Oct 6, 2018, 06:00 AM
Oct 2018

but he absolutely was a very strong economic conservative. National holidays cost business and governments money. And so does the ACA. Just a little reading about McCain reveals that he was neither a wise nor a highly principled man. He did one great thing when he was very young in refusing the special treatment offered an admiral's son. Other than that, he was a very limited man.

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