By: Nick Tomboulides
An email posted by Wikileaks last week revealed that five-term Arizona Sen. John McCain dodged questions on term limits during his final campaign for president.
When asked if term limits were an effective resolution to an ineffective Congress, McCain defended career politicians as “irreplaceable” and said the political process would fix itself.
Now, eight years later, Congress is an even bigger mess and McCain – who is running for his sixth term this year – still opposes term limits.
If McCain wins in November, he will become one of the longest serving senators in American history with 36 years in office.
McCain’s opponent, Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, is a strong supporter of term limits who has signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge. She vows if elected to sponsor a bill for a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms and senators to two.
We gave McCain an opportunity to sign the same pledge and he refused.
