McCain’s Environmental Record for 2007

The League of Conservation Voters just released their scorecards for 2007. John McCain, that moderate, maverick, straight-talking machine scored a whopping zero percent. So, again for those Democrats who think Obama or Hillary will be the end of the party and will thus rather vote for McCain, a “reasonable” conservative, in 2008, remember that there is nothing reasonable about that man. He couldn’t find one pro-environmental bill in all of last year that suited his tastes, which puts him in the same league as ultra-conservatives Trent Lott (R-MS) and John Cornyn (R-TX).
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Latino Voters Abandon GOP

This is according to CNN. Other than the Cuban contingent in Florida, I’m not sure there was a time when the GOP played strongly with Latino voters. It’s kinda hard to do what with labeling them criminals and threatening to ship them back to the border (which, incidentally would cost us a fortune). While McCain may be more sensible on immigration than his counter-parts within the Republican party, he still wears that mantle. He is this centuries version of Hester Prynne (of Scarlett Letter fame).
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