My hard core righty office mate thinks McCain is a democrat 5 days of the week. Me? It's clear that he'll say anything to get elected.

If he's speaking to a Democratic audience 5 days a week, then he is a Democrat 5 days a week.

That's the beauty of St. McCain, his policy positions adapt to the audience he is addressing.  He's a sort of chameleon, if you will, never revealing his true colors.

It makes me wonder how he'll do in the debates, though.  He won't be able to pander to Americans as a whole, and the most intuitive of Americans will see through his charade.  I just hope that Americans will be smarter in this election than they have demonstrated in the past.

You're right. McCain just set a record for most flip flops in one week. If he would just speak at wind farms we'd be energy independant.

...but Curl failed to note that McCain now says he would no longer support that bill if it came to a vote on the Senate floor.

Curl also failed to not that Gramps McCain shows up to vote so infrequently that they don't even bother tracking his votes to see how conservative or liberal he is.

somewhere in the vast vaults of MMFA there is a list of votes that Mccain missed. And if my memory serves me right, it filled a page.

somewhere in the vast vaults of MMFA there is a list of votes that Mccain missed. And if my memory serves me right, it filled a page.

I just found something through Google that was put together by the Washington Post.  It lists the absentee precentages for all US Senators.  I've posted all those with percentages of ten percent or greater - the complete list can be found at the link I provided.

I think it's significant that the Senators that were running for president had high absentee percentages, but none anywhere NEAR as high as Gramps McCain.  His percentage was even higher than that for Tim Johnson, who was out for several months recovering from a brain hemorrhage!!!

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Senate Members Who Missed Votes

60.9% - Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Votes: 360 votes missed (60.9%), 231 votes cast

52.6% -  Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Votes: 311 votes missed (52.6%), 280 votes cast
Note: Sen. Johnson suffered a brain hemorrhage on Dec. 13, 2006, and spent several months recovering. He has since returned to the Senate.

42.6% - Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
Votes: 252 votes missed (42.6%), 339 votes cast

32.7% - Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE)
Votes: 193 votes missed (32.7%), 398 votes cast

32.7% - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Votes: 193 votes missed (32.7%), 398 votes cast

28.9% - Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Votes: 171 votes missed (28.9%), 420 votes cast

23.2% - Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Votes: 137 votes missed (23.2%), 454 votes cast

10.8% - Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Votes: 64 votes missed (10.8%), 527 votes cast

10.8% - Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Votes: 64 votes missed (10.8%), 527 votes cast

10.2% - Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Votes: 60 votes missed (10.2%), 531 votes cast

Complete List: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/ 

thank for your post. I am hanging on to this one, like my family photo in the living room.

Wow while McCain certainly has the record, Democrats definitely top this sport. And I want to know why should someone be pushing the agenda where is the Democratic Whip?

Wow while McCain certainly has the record, Democrats definitely top this sport.

Of the ten Senators I listed above, six were running for president - four Democrats and two Republicans.  Tim Johnson was recovering from a brain hemorrhage, and the other three Democrats (Inouye, Kennedy, and Byrd) probably had medica issues as well.  It just looks like while other candidates would return to Washington for votes when they could, Gramps McCain just couldn't be bothered....

And I want to know why should someone be pushing the agenda where is the Democratic Whip?

He's much further down the list, with a near-perfect attendence record:

0.8% - Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Votes: 5 votes missed (0.8%), 586 votes cast

That says it all. The Maverik and the Messiah are both slackers.