Xurtio

McCain and Sanders worked on Veteran's bill together.

The Republicans make it hard though. Boehner (not a candidate) was more moderate than most and it seemed to be his willingness to compromise with Democrats that caused him to have to step down as speaker.

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Chula Vista

Nothing. He's pretty much retired from political life except as a talking head because of his 2012 run.

Remembering Romney's stand on the issues I don't think he would have been good at all. Not to mention we would have had a republican president along with a republican led house and senate.

Romney:
- Pushed to maintain Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy.
- Would have repealed the affordable care act.
- Was opposed to same sex marriage.
- Would ban all abortions except for rape and incest.
- Wanted to repeal the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
- Opposed the DREAM act.
- Was against ending combat actions in Iraq.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I can respect McCain's earlier work, but by the time he was running for president he had become more hardline, and I don't think it was entirely to pander to the republican base, such as his seemingly casual approach to military intervention.

No, Johnny boy, we are not all Georgians now. We are Americans, and I have no desire to get within spitting distance of a war with Russia.

What I figured. Running for president is generally the end of one's political career, whether you win or lose.

That was election talk. He was definitely way more moderate than he came across during his run for president, so you can't really use his talking points from back then as proof of what he would have done in office.

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Chula Vista

Agreed. But with a majority in both the house and senate I think he would have been pushed to be more right than if there was better legislative balance in Washington.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Xurtio

Re: Romney appealing ACA. Romney (and republicans) had their own plan to help the burden of medicare/caid. It was called romneycare at the time and was being used at the state level where he governed.

Dodd-Frank is pretty much worthless. The banks need to be broken up. Policies and laws are easy to hack when you can afford a team of attorneys to work with the team writing your trading algorithms.

He wasn't as hard against abortion as the media made out either.

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Chula Vista

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Zhanteimi

So, does this Orlando massacre push more voters towards Trump?

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Frownland

Dumb reactionary honkies were already on his side, so not many.

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Chula Vista

Took the words right out of my mouth.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I'd say a few, but those that hate Trump are going to be annoyed by the reaction from his supporters, and those on the fence are going to be split down the middle like they always were. If Trump were less polarizing then something like this might work more in his favor, but he's one of those people where the people who will support him already are.

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