McCain Receives "0" on League of Conservation Voters 2007 Scorecard. The League of Conservation Voters rates senators and representatives on the most critical environmental votes, with scores ranging from 100 – voting with the environment every time – to 0 for voting against the environment on every vote. Absences count as a vote against the environment since the legislator did not cast a vote for the environment. In 2007, Sen. McCain missed all 15 critical environmental votes in the Senate, so he received a "0." [LCV, 2/08]
McCain Opposes Three Fourths of Environmental Votes. Sen. McCain has a lifetime LCV score of 24 percent. Even if one excludes his 2007 missed votes, his lifetime score only rises to 26 percent. [LCV Scorecard, 2007, LCV Scorecard 2006]
McCain Accepted $291,658 from Big Oil in 2007. On average, senators voting for big oil tax breaks and against incentives for renewable energy and efficiency in 2007 received $195,973 in campaign donations from the oil industry during this decade....
Did you get that? McCain got $291,658 just in 2007 from Big Oil. Wow!
>>> Have you noticed that the McCain campaign is using some of the same words that the Bush-Cheney campaign used to attack Kerry in 2004? So not only has McCain aligned himself with Bush-Cheney policies, he is using the same attack words.
Fox News (June 17, 2008):
John McCain’s advisers accused Barack Obama Tuesday of suffering a ‘September 10th mindset’ for suggesting that the prosecutions of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were the best approach for dealing with terror suspects....
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice," Mr. Cheney told a crowd of 350 people in Des Moines, "because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
He also said if Mr. Kerry was elected the nation risked lapsing to a "pre-9/11 mind-set'' where attacks are viewed as criminal acts, not part of a war against terrorism....
Can the McCain campaign come up with an original idea or do they just have to rely on the same Bush-Cheney policies and campaign rhetoric? Somewhere inside the McCain campaign, the Bush-Cheney campaign speeches and policy statements are being dusted off for use by McCain. How can McCain say he is an agent of change when he uses the same old Bush-Cheney vocabulary list?
