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10 Reasons Conservatives Might Vote for John McCain

An e-mail from MoveOn.org arrived in my inbox tonight promising “10 things you should know about John McCain.” For a candidate who needs to repair ties with the right, it appears MoveOn is more than willing to help. Most of the 10 sell McCain as the ideal conservative candidate. I’ve highlighted a few of my favorites below.

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”

4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”

5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

The complete list is available on Barack Obama’s website.