The John McCain Dumpster Diving Tour
In life and in war, turnabout is fair play, and that may be nowhere more true than in politics.
And so we have the sorry sight of John Kerry flip-flopping on yet another issue and sucking up to yet another right-wing constituency . . .
Wait a minute!
Kerry has quit politics. It’s John McCain, that “maverick” Republican presidential candidate, who has become a champion flip-flopper on a dizzying array of issues.
I am taking McCain’s dumpster diving — you know, sucking up to Pat Robertson one day and Jerry Falwell the next — somewhat personally because it was not too many moons ago that I was able to rationalize voting for the guy if the Democratic candidate in 2008 was more weak tea like Kerry.
Dick Polman administers the coup de’ grâce to McCain at American Debate.
So let’s hear from everyone who was relentlessly critical of Kerry now that Big John has upstaged him.
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Found this list of McAmnesia’s flip flops over at C&L’s and overjoyed to repost it here….
McAmnesia’s Reversals:
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving “feedback� on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he now opposes the measure.
* McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.� Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.�
* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.
* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance� in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved� the 9/11 attacks. (Indeed, McCain has now hired Falwell’s debate coach.)
* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.
* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money� to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June, he abandoned his own legislation.
* McCain used to think that Grover Norquist was a crook and a corrupt shill for dictators. Then McCain got serious about running for president and began to reconcile with Norquist.
* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.
* McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it. [corrected]
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he “would taint the image of the ‘Straight Talk Express.’� Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
* McCain is now both open and closed to redeployment in Iraq.
* And McCain claims to have “bitterly disagreed� with a “failed strategy� in Iraq for more than three years, despite having argued the need to “stay the course� just one year ago.
John Kerry’s flip flops are more like a few little hops compared to this politcal whore. Don’t call this man an independent folks, call him what he is, a first class scumbag political whore.
I guess now it would be really ridiculous for McCain to run under the headline ‘straight talking’ again…
The John McCain Dumpster Diving Tour…
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I think one has to ask the question. Has John McCain ever really been a “straight talker”?
I think not. He’s just making it more obvious now.
“Has John McCain ever really been a “straight talkerâ€??”
Of course not. But this didn’t matter as long as at least the press believed in it!
Flip-flops…rubbish!
Clearly, John McCain’s early statements were by his Evil Liberal Twin!
Any rational objective observer would realize this is obvious, as one sane human being cannot hold such 180 degree positions in a single lifetime.
Shame on you, Shaun and Pyst, for not recognizing the obvious and smearing the reputation of this outstanding American with the obviously deranged actions of his evil twin.
No Komrad Marlow – McClown is just bi-political
polar.e may even revert to his Librul personality if that is what it takes.What I see from John McAmenesia (new name the commenter at C&L’s used, and I think it’s very fitting now) is his taking a bathroom break all over his Libertarian principles for the brass ring of president at all costs.
This is the man that took over the post formerly held by Goldwater as his Libertarian minded heir, and has now besmirched it for power. He shows no shame, and may the ghost of Goldwater come to him soon for his political soul.
Infact that very line should be used against him by a Democratic canidate if he manages to make it past the GOP primaries.
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