John
McCain's
Whimsical World of Conservatism
Food for thought for the
George Soros, Teressa Heinz Kerry, Tides Foundation et al wing of
the Republican Party.
1958/00/00
McCain graduates from
Annapolis, 894th out of a class of
898. McCain had conflicts with higher-ups, and he was disinclined
to obey every rule.
1958/00/00
McCain loses the first of five aircraft he
will lose over the period of
his career as a Naval Pilot, contributing to him becoming a reverse
Ace. Poore states circa 1960. Article here states
1958. Ace
McCain
1960/00/00
McCain graduates from flight
training. He is required to do six
arrested landings aboard the Training Aircraft Carrier, the USS
Antietam, in the Gulf of Mexico to be certified. He completes two.
1979/04/00
McCain meets Cindy Hensley. She is
24, he is 42. They start dating
shortly thereafter. "I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal
Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love." Source: Dan
Norwicki and Bill Muller LINK
1980/01/07
McCain officially ended cohabiting with
Carol his first wife according to court documents.
1980/02/19
McCain sues Carol his first wife for
divorce. Ronald and Nancy Reagan
are not amused and rush to Carol's aid. Ed Meese and others step in to
help Carol with jobs and lodging.
1980/03/06
McCain obtains marriage license to marry
Cindy Hensley
1980/04/02
McCain's divorce to Carol is granted
(Carol does not contest this divorce, and doesn't enter into the
procedings at all)
1980/05/17
McCain marries Cindy Hensley
1982/00/00 McCain
enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some
aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at
Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)
1983/09/28
McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote
with the Majority Party
Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on
the losing side
1986/04/00 McCain's wife Cindy
and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall
1987/00/00 McCain
has received $112,000 by this time for Congressional and Senate
campaigns, from Charles Keating, his relatives, and his employees, the
largest amount to any Keating 5 member
1987/04/02 McCain
joins four Democrats to intercede on behalf of his S&L Owner friend
Keating
with Ed Gray, chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board and also banking regulators (2 meetings)
1988/02/11
McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as
a justice for the SCOTUS
1989/00/00
McCain
discloses Keating trips as his involvement in the S&L scandal
breaks, reimbursing $13,433.00 with no repercussions as late as seven
years after the fact
1990/10/02
McCain votes to Confirm Justice David H.
Souter from New Hampshire
to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS Court
1993/10/10
McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to
cut off funding of
United States troops in Somalia
1993/08/10
McCain joins the Democrats and most
Republicans voting to confirm Ruth
Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three
Republicans vote Nay.
1993/01/13
McCain and John Kerry release the Select
Committee report urging the
MIA
issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized
relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans
groups. Video1
Video2
( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1
here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think
most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained
most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I
would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's
POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go
there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming
some of the reports in Video1.
1994/07/24
McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm
nominee Stephen Breyer to be
an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...
1997/00/00
McCain leads the opposition to the Coats
Amendment, preventing
government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act"
[abortion] ) Amendment defeated!
1999/04/02
McCain advocates sending our ground troops
into the Balkins.
1999/08/19
McCain stated, "Certainly in the short
term, or even the long term, I
would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"
2000/00/00
McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to
introduce Campaign Finance
Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article
2000/00/00
McCain was the keynote speaker at the
ultra-liberal Philadelphia
convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at
another Soros
event on the same day...
2000/11/20
McCain participates in the production of a
gun control spot for
Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the
November election.) Article
2001/00/00
McCain founded the Reform Institute funded
by George Soros' Open
Society Institute, Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation, several other
non-profits. CapnsQtrs
Malkin
WND Contains information on
Juan Hernandez and numerous McCain Campaign staff from 2000, that found
potitions at the Reform Institute Contains information on who
funded McCain's efforts on Campaign Finance Reform, Comprehansive
Immigration Reform and a number of Global Warming bills listed in this
timeline
2001/05/15
McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole
bill S890, with Carper,
Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring. Analysis
2003/03/19
McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
2003/10/30
McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the
Climate
Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) it falls short in the Senate
vote on this day Thomas Bill
S139 LINK
2003/10/30
McCain Lieberman bill is addressed by Kit Bond
2004/03/10
McCain states he would entertain an offer
to be John Kerry's
Vice-President, but doesn't see a realistic scenario where he would be
asked. Later denies he would leave the Republican party. YouTube
2004/03/18
McCain Defends John Kerry on Defense
matters
2004/03/30
McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to
introduce another Climate
Warming bill with ten Democrat and ten Repbulican cosigners.
2004/04/02
McCain states, "I believe my party has
gone astray, I think the
Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in
their views and their philosophy, but I also feel the Republican Party
can be brought back to the principles I articulated before."
2004/06/04
McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We
write to urge you (President
Bush) to expand
the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."
2004/08/05 McCain
announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry,
and asks the White House to refute them LINK2
2005/00/00
McCain resigns from the Reform Institute
he founded with George
Soros. His top advisors remain on the Reform Institute payroll,
making big dollars.
2005/01/28
McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC
(International Criminal Court)",
but I would like to see more safeguards first
2005/05/12
McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce
McCain/Kennedy immigration
legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens
2005/05/24
McCain joins 13 other Republican and Democrat Senators to
form the Gang
of 14, foolishly opting to preserve an undemocratic Senate rule instead
of following the Constitution and historical precedent. Analysis1 Analysis2
Analysis3
2006/04/28
McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than
one where
quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become
corrupt."
2006/09/06
McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the
Washington Post, states in
part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International
Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."
2006/12/01
McCain writes letter to the incoming
defense secretary Robert Gates stating Airbus Government subsidy issue
"may risk eliminating competition before bids are submitted,..." The
Air Force changed the criteria four days later, eliminating subsidy
consideration. As of 2008/03/11, top current advisers to Sen.
John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European
plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker
contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to
referee for more than five years. Two of the advisers gave up
their lobbying work when they joined McCain's campaign. A third, former
Texas Rep. Tom Loeffler, lobbied for the European Aeronautic Defence
and Space Co. while serving as McCain's national finance chairman.
2007/02/05
McCain joins Joseph Lieberman to introduce the Climate
Stewardship and
Innovation Act. See related energy tax analysis here 2008/01/10
2007/02/17
McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay
terrorist detainment center
on his first day in office Video
(same as date link on the left)
2007/03/22
McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck
and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's
Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort
2007/06/00
McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to
file an amicus brief against
the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief
The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold
2007/06/18
McCain's Gitmo problem, close the base,
grant some Geneva Convention status reserved for lawful combatants,
stop water boarding...
2007/10/25
McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T.
treaty in time, but does
have concerns over sovereignty issues.
2007/12/17
McCain gets the Boston Globe's endorsement
in the Republican Primaries
2008/01/10
McCain Lieberman energy tax is addressed
in National Review.
Intoduced here 2007/02/05
2008/01/25
McCain gets
the New York Times' endorsement in the Republican Primaries
2008/01/25
McCain and Hillary share a lot of
political views says Bill Clinton. No comment
from the McCain camp. YouTube
2008/02/03
McCain gets
the Los Angeles Times' endorsement in the Republican Primaries
2008/03/00
McCain makes his first attempt to tell a
state (North Carolina)
Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him. (North
Caroline tells him to pond sand)
2008/03/24
McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his
Presidential campaign.
Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to
leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down
on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward
running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican
leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regarding Whiteman's
donations. Article above.
2008/03/26
McCain speech to the World Affairs
Council, Europe may get veto power
over some of our foreign policy...
2008/03/26
McCains, John and Cindy telegraph support
for the independent state of
Kosovo. Cliff Kincaid at AIM comments...
2008/04/08
McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign.
By the EOBD 06/30/08, he has missed 373 votes or 61.8% of the Senate
votes in the 110th Congress. His has cast one vote since
03/14/08. It was on April 8th. LINK
2008/05/09
McCain's interview with O'Reilly... I
won't drill in ANWR... it's
pretty... I'm an environmentalist. (note: there's a good chance
he may have an environMental disorder)
2008/05/12
McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult,
sounding more like Al Gore
every day... McCain's Oregon add Video
2008/05/13
McCain takes an Environmental walk, with
the leader of the Cascade Land
Conservancy... (another series of fruit loop moments)
2008/05/15
McCain states he will appoint Democrats to
his administration, during a
Republican teleconference and during a Columbus
stump speech
2008/05/27
McCain announces support for severe
cutbacks on our nuclear weapons,
withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste
to an international body
2008/06/04
McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with
the Bush administration's
mismanagement of the war in Iraq."
2008/06/14
McCain tells Clinton supporters they
should back him because he voted
for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07
2008/06/18
McCain joins Barack Obama today in signing
on to sponsor Joseph Bidens Global HIV/AIDS bill. This
monstrosity would cost the U.S. in excess of $50 Billion dollars of
taxpayer money S.2731
2008/06/21
McCain and Obama are to address open
borders group in Los
Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illeagal Alien
appologist groups... It was announced on this date.
2008/06/21
McCain and team realize he has so little
credibility on judicial
appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his
judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...
2008/06/28
McCain declares, "I will make
comprehensive immigration reform my “top
priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino
leaders that they will have an ally in the White House. As of
this date, Conservatives know they won't have one.
2008/07/03
McCain Allies Find Financing Loopholes,
Governors' Fund Recruits Big
Donors; Bid to Catch Obama LINK
Another do as I say, not as I do moment. Well, a long series of
moments over time would be more like it.
2008/07/16
McCain and Obama's cosponsored (Joe Biden
Originated) Global HIV/AIDS bill passes the Senate in a vote of 80 to
16. It now has to go back to the House for reconsiliation.
Bush actively lobbied for this $50 billion dollar monstrosity. S.2731