What are the pros and cons for McCain?
Pros: Many years of experience, served in the military and as a POW, has a long record of bipartisan efforts in the Senate, and has the appeal of tax cuts for both citizens and businesses. Deserves credit for going against his fellow Republicans with some tough stands against ethanol subsidies, federal hurricane insurance, ANWR drilling and pork spending. Strongest Republican on global warming. Was a chief proponent of the surge in Iraq, where conditions are much improved. Cons: McCain faces two main challenges. First, some may disagree with parts of his record. On Iraq, he was a hawk, stating that Saddam certainly had WMDs, the war would be fast, easy, and with few casualties, and that we would be welcomed as liberators. On the economy, he has a history of deregulation of financial markets, the stain of the Keating Five scandal, campaign manager Rick Davis’s lobbying money from Fannie Mae an Freddie Mac, and his seeming out of touch by not being able to remember how many houses he has
