....The likely Republican presidential nominee is much more conservative than voters appear to realize. McCain leans to the right on issue after issue, not just on the Iraq war but also on abortion, gay rights, gun control and other issues that matter to his party's social conservatives....
"People see him as a centrist. They don't see him as a conservative," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
"In fact, they put him pretty close to themselves, in terms of ideology, and put President Bush way to the right of themselves," Kohut said.
In a national Pew survey earlier this year, voters placed McCain in the middle, where they placed themselves, when asked to judge the ideology of Bush and the presidential candidates. They placed Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama far to the left.
And Sam L followed up:
It's great
And because the full title shows up in the google headline, I think it would be a prime target for the Google Bombing campaign.
Speaking of which, when is that going to get into full swing, if this is our opportunity to define McCain? I sure thought it would be up and running a while ago.
I think Sam is absolutely right--and his comment is right in tune with the spirit of Mike's diary. But maybe there's an even better candidate out there. If so, we need to find it. Either way, it seems to me that the time to google-bomb is now.
STATE BLOGS
