John McCain -
1) Who, through part of his involvement with the Keating 5 cost the US Government 3.4 Billion (about $6.82 Billion 2018 dollars), and bankrupted numerous regular citizens. McCain received $112,000 in contributions, and free vacations for turning a blind eye to Keating. He also allowed his family to enter into sweetheart real estate deals with Keating.
2) McCain cheated on, and dumped his first wife after she was in a car accident right after he came back from Vietnam.
3) McCain voted against quite a few major health care measures for things like AIDS management, etc....
4) Was extremely flip floppy on taxes, except when it came to siphoning off to support various wars.
5) Extreme proponent of NAFTA, etc....
6) Flip floppy on financial regulation. Was a fan of deregulation, till the chickens came home to roost a few years later with the mortgage crisis, etc....
7) Voted against a federal minimum wage.
8 ) Extremely flip floppy on environmental issues, claiming to be pro-environment, yet voting against 60-70% of the environmental bills that he voted on. He also supported the dumping of toxic waste in Nevada's Yucca mountains as long as it didn't pass through Arizona.
Also voted against funds to help restore the Everglades, and supported budget funding for ANWR oil drilling, while publicly denouncing it.
9) Voted multiple times for the Patriot Act.
10) Supported Affirmative Action.
11) Extremely weak on Immigration.
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And then there were things that might be seen as pluses or minuses depending on your view -
1) Extreme anti-abortion stance.
2) Somewhat extreme, yet publicly flip floppy Anti-Gay stances on many things.
3) Support for goofy things like Marijuana prohibition (while being a friend of big alcohol). Supporting the anti-vaccination movement. Abstinence training (including earmarking $75m for it). The banning of the UFC.
4) Etc....
Say what you want, but he was a real flip floppy, as the wind blows type fellow. If it wasn't for Vietnam and his anti-Trump stance, no one would be praising him as hard as they are now.
At a glance I had no problem with him on abortion, voting against minimum wage or his anti- gay stance
