We can only wonder if these Republican and Evangelicals are so brainwashed that they completely fall for this latest stand that McCain is taking.  It is hard to imagine that any voter, repug or Democrat would be against our tax dollars going for hospital equipment, emergency aide, etc.  I don't know who will be the GOP nominee, but John McCain is not being called on the carpet by the mainstream media to explain why he would be against the example of "pork" listed below.   In my opinion as a Democrat we are down to who we would like to run against in the election,will McCain be the easiest to defeat? 

If John McCain is true to his rhetoric in the Republican presidential campaign, he would take a broad ax to spending that voters, upon closer examination, might wish were cut in a more discerning way. The two dozen states voting in presidential primaries Tuesday are home to thousands of projects financed by earmarks, the pet pork that members of Congress carve out of the federal budget.

The Arizona senator's criticism of pork pleases crowds, for no one likes to see tax dollars thrown at silly things. "No earmarks," he says. "Not 10,000. Not one. Zero."

And he got an unintentional assist from President Bush, a convert to the anti-pork cause after he signed a spending law that legislators had stuffed with 10,000 local projects costing more than $10 billion.

A small taste of the earmarked spending sought in 2007 by lawmakers from Super Tuesday states:

_In California, $438,000 to Monterey County for gang prevention and intervention.

_In Illinois, $5 million for the Red Cross to buy backup generators, cots, shelter trailers, emergency vehicles and more.

_In New Haven, Conn., $487,000 to help families and children exposed to violence and trauma.

_In Oneonta, N.Y., $243,000 for hospital equipment and facilities.

_In St. James, Mo., $412,000 to expand services to abused and neglected children.