The favorite mantra of the Dems this season is that McCain is a clone of Bush and to elect him would be "four more years." Yes, there are some similarities in their beliefs (McCaiin is, after all, a conservative)and yes, as the Dems love to point out, "McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time." (All in all, a pretty meaningless stat --- Obama voted with Bush 40% of the time and I doubt if they agree on all that much). But there are a plethora of differences between Bush and McCain. What I consider to be among the greatest failings of Bush was his inability to control runaway spending, especially by not using the veto. McCain, I believe, would be very much a deficit hawk, and would make great use of the veto power, whether the spenders were Dems or GOP.