Sunday, April 09, 2006
John McCain is a Flip Flopper
It’s been obvious for some time that the Christian conservative wing steers the Republican Party, with moderates and liberals riding shotgun or delegated to sitting in the back of the bus(h).So it’s no surprise that Republican Senator John McCain has been cozying up to Mullah Jerry Falwell. McCain (AZ) has been criticized recently for endorsing radical, anti-gay activist Jerry Falwell and for agreeing to keynote the graduation of Liberty University on May 13, a college controlled by Chancellor Falwell, which routinely expels gay students. In doing so, McCain is sending a clear message to the voting Charismacrats that he is willing to work to defeat gay marriage. His action additionally implies solidarity with the Christian political platform against sin, as defined by Falwell and Robertson.
The two recently smoothed over policy differences during a private meeting in McCain's Senate office. "I was in Washington with him about three months ago," Falwell said. "We dealt with every difference we have. There are no deal breakers now. But I told him, 'You have a lot of fence mending to do.'"
While not offering an endorsement, Falwell said that Republican Senator John McCain was a candidate that he could support for president in 2008.
Here are some differences in the once moderately conservative McCain that are noteworthy:
2000- As he sought the Republican nomination that eventually went to George W. Bush, McCain said: "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right."
When McCain was asked in 2000 whether he stood by his description of Falwell, he said, “I must not and will not retract anything that I said in that speech at Virginia Beach. It was carefully crafted, it was carefully thought out.” (Hardball, 3/1/00)
April 2006- On Meet the Press Potential presidential candidate John McCain says he longer considers evangelist Jerry Falwell to be one of the "agents of intolerance" that he criticized during a previous White House run.
In past years, many moderates admired McCain’s outspokenness, his independence and his ethics. Now, moderate Republicans are beginning to see him as just another tired old political hack. McCain’s big mistake is in aligning himself with the Rove/Cheney wing of the Right who have been wrong on every domestic and foreign affairs issue. McCain’s appearance at Liberty U. marks his willingness to define that 100-foot swan dive into the murky, neocon cesspool. Will that dive be McCain’s swan song?
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For a long time I tried to cut McCain some slack with his POW deal and all. But no more. His only claim to fame is the POW deal. He is a worse hawk than bush and he'll say or do anything he thinks will get him elected in 08. Screw him!
Not buying his explanation, and his excuses. I guess I covered this ground though at the forum you posted at Blue Republic! Don't want to repeat and annoy you.
McCain certainly betrayed everyone, including himself. The 04/07/06 Huffington Post included a entitled "The Tragic Irony of John McCain's Faustian Bargain/." Sad reading.
George Bush's insulting epithets about McCain's sanity due to his imprisonment in a POW camp during the 1999 run for the GOP nomination are disgustingly unforgivable. Certainly, McCain "aligning himself with Rove/Cheney" will prove his swan song. Has McCain actually forgotten Bush's (and Rove's) filthy campaign to spin McCain's military career as a liability? Even worse is how he now embraces the religious right and "his change of heart" about Jerry Falwell.
John McCain's change sickens and saddens me. I truly believe if he had stuck to his convictions and continued to fight against the Neocon fanatics, he may well have done much to heal America's deep divisiveness that seems to grow with every Bush Administration blunder and lie.
What makes me sicker is this picture. The shot is bad enough, but what about the Bushes and Bill Clinton going fishing?
To digress, I notice some of these fanatical religious preachers' act like their names, which serve better as puns: "Fall Well" and "Van Impe."
Thank you for a great post.
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George Bush's insulting epithets about McCain's sanity due to his imprisonment in a POW camp during the 1999 run for the GOP nomination are disgustingly unforgivable. Certainly, McCain "aligning himself with Rove/Cheney" will prove his swan song. Has McCain actually forgotten Bush's (and Rove's) filthy campaign to spin McCain's military career as a liability? Even worse is how he now embraces the religious right and "his change of heart" about Jerry Falwell.
John McCain's change sickens and saddens me. I truly believe if he had stuck to his convictions and continued to fight against the Neocon fanatics, he may well have done much to heal America's deep divisiveness that seems to grow with every Bush Administration blunder and lie.
What makes me sicker is this picture. The shot is bad enough, but what about the Bushes and Bill Clinton going fishing?
To digress, I notice some of these fanatical religious preachers' act like their names, which serve better as puns: "Fall Well" and "Van Impe."
Thank you for a great post.
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