isn't satisfied learning that John McCain overwhelmingly attracts the large GOP "negative on Bush" vote. He wants to know why. Here are some suggestions:
I'll add more later.
- As much as many Americans don't like war, even more of them don't like losing wars. John McCain has been Bush's biggest critic on how to fight this war. And the success of the surge and the firing of Rumsfeld seems to have proven him right. Steve and others might not see it that way, but many GOP voters do.
- McCain is winning the "fiscal conservative" vote by wide margins because he's the anti-Bush when it comes to spending and fiscal sanity with the budget. The one thing that has been missing from the "fiscal conservatism" of the Bush / Club for Growth / WSJ / Sean Hannity "fiscal conservatives" has been, well, fiscal conservatism. McCain has credibility on restraining spending, cutting pork, and closing the budget deficit gap. Bush has a record on fiscal indiscipline that makes LBJ look like Calvin Coolidge. In Florida, about half of all GOP voters believed controlling the budget deficit was more important to them than the promise of future tax cuts (a rather pie-in-the sky Bush-like promise if you look at the required spending outlays already on the books, including the millions of Baby Boomers now moving out of the tax producing workforce and onto the tax sucking Federal dole.)
- Since December, when most people first started paying attention, John McCain has been running hard as the "secure the borders first" candidate. This may seem bizarre to those who closely follow politics all year round, but polls clearly show he's fooling large segments of voting population, pulling in significant percentages of those who reject amnesty and want to control the border.
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