McCain Not As Moderate As Expected

Now that John McCain seems to be the one in terms of securing the republican nomination for president this election cycle it is not a bad time to take a closer look at where he stands in terms of positions. He is not the most popular conservative in the history of the republican party. There are many in the G.O.P. who dont like him at all. They feel he is too moderate some even feeling that he has a liberal bent on some issues and they are not comfortable with it. As far as his views on the war in Iraq go i dont think his position is in line with the majority of Americans who wish to just be free of the whole Iraq situation. He favors staying in Iraq for as long as it takes. He has in fact said that even if it takes 50 years we should remain there until the job gets done. The question is what job is there to do? What exactly can be done about Iraq? It is hard to stabilize a country where in which the enemies you are fighting want you out so badly that they are willing to engage in any kind of tactic to get you out and even the people who are "On your side" want you out too. The situation there is not viable really. You have a government in Iraq that cant even contain its pleasure every time it hears about another American being killed and runs off to the nearest mosque to go praise Allah for it. When these are your allies you have only one choice really and that is to just go home.
McCain does not favor universal health care. While he is one of those Sentors who has been around for about 100 years enjoying the significantly above average wages that being a sentor provides and the health benefits that are second to none really in this country all courtesy of the American tax payer he does not favor extending these kinds of benefits in any kind of even basic way to the average American who has been extending them to him and his colleagues forever. He thinks it should be a free market type situation and the government should not get involved.
He wants to make the Bush tax cuts for the super rich permanent. It has got to be the height of contempt when you have a situation where the country is at war un-nessessarily and it is costing a ton a week ( About 2 billion dollars a week to be more precise) and you have a bunch of rich people like the president and senator McCain running around advocating the the wealthiest members of the society such as they be even more exempt from taxation than they already are. Wealthy people in this country get taxed at about a rate of 17% while the middle class gets it to the tune of anywhere between 25-35% on average depending on their level of income and you have rich guys like this going around saying that it should be lower still for the wealthy while we borrow more money than ever from countries like China to finance the war and shoot the national debt up into the sky. This simply put is a bunch of crazy talk. Why cant rich people pay their fair share? What is the big objection that the wealthy have to this fair proposal? It's a simple case of they run things, they set up the rules to favor themselves and the rest of us carry more than our fair share of the weight and struggle to make ends meet. It's not fair, it's not right and i dont know if McCain is the answer therefore for the problems that this country is facing in these times.