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Whether you like Romney or not (I do) that is some pretty damning evidence right there. ouch!
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 amYeah Kurt, that’s the truth.
To keep myself somewhat balanced in this mess, Romney does not look very good there. He’ll get my vote Tuesday but I’ll be the first to admit he isn’t without fault. He has made his share of mistakes too.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 amRepublican primary = war hero that is willing to move too far to the left IMO on some issues to “make progress” and or appease the media versus a total phony who passionately believes whatever the electorate he is trying to win over wants him to. I hope that Hillary will unite us because these guys haven’t demonstrated that they can yet…
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 amTTS:
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 amI would not judge yet whether the candidates can unite us. This is still the primary and unfortunately in order to get nominated they have to be all for one side in order to get the votes. This is why I like McCain more. Yes, his more left leaning ways will upsets repblicans but on the whole its better for the country. Do we reall need another very right wing president…no. Especially when the democrats control the congress. Nothing would get done if the president and congress keep bickering…see how much time congress wasted trying to get the troops home immediately?
Joe, I get what you’re saying and can somewhat agree with that. but if we had a more left leaning president along with a democratic congress would the Right things get accomplished? Its not enough to just want the congress to do something. I dont want them to pass a bunch of liberal bs. We need a president that can keep them in check like Bush has done.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 amI am really tired of fighting this one. I too, as crazy conservative as I am NOW, used to agree with a woman’s right to choose AND THEN when faced with a unplanned pregnancy, it can make you thing a lot harder about the words and how easy it is to have and abortion and how easy it is to kill a baby and IT CAN BE LIFE CHANGING . . .
Mitt changed his position when he had to actually had to sign away life . . . That is not a flip-flop that is facing reality and changing one’s mind.
Good grief.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pmMcCAIN’s RECORD OF FLIP-FLOPPING:
(I had to stop researching examples because it got too long!)
The fact is that no presidential candidate in either party has flip-flopped as egregiously as McCain on such a wide range of issues. Here’s just a small sample of Sen. Straight Talk’s recent series of remarkable conversions to politically convenient stances:
— IMMIGRATION AMNESTY —
TIM RUSSERT SAID: This is what John McCain said to the Tucson Citizen, home state paper, back in 2003. “I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible. And at the same time make sure that we have some control over people who come in and out of” the “country. Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here,” paid “taxes here and are not citizens. That has to be a component of it.”
* When he got to Congress, McCain was a rather conventional conservative Republican. After his role in the Keating Five scandal, McCain took on a reform-minded persona. By 1999, he was a self-described “maverick” and moderate, who would move the GOP to the center. By 2004, McCain was back to being a conservative again. By 2007, he had positioned himself as an establishment Republican, and when that didn’t work out, McCain decided he’d become some kind of hybrid of the various McCains of the recent past.
* He said this week that he’d vote against his own immigration plan.
— LAW OF THE SEA —
* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now, if the treaty comes to the Senate floor, he’s vowed to vote against it.
— DREAM ACT —
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. In 2007, to make the far-right base happy, he voted against the bill he had taken the lead on.
— ELECTION REFORM —
* 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 he’d backed.
* McCain used to support major campaign-finance reform measures that bore his name. In June 2007, McCain announced his opposition to a major McCain-Feingold provision.
NOTE:
These aren’t just random bills that McCain voted on — these (The previous 4, listed) are bills that he personally championed — recently. And now, after McCain sponsored the bills, he’s not even willing to vote for them anymore.
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— ABORTION —
* On abortion rights, McCain has done a 180-degree turn, from favoring only the most minor restrictions and opposing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to supporting an almost total ban, while advocating that the Supreme Court reverse Roe immediately.
McCain in 1999 said that, “even in the long term,” he would not support the repeal of Roe v. Wade because “thousands of young American women would be performing illegal and dangerous operations.” But last November he said that he now favored repeal because “I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.”
— GAY MARRIAGE —
* Sen. John McCain said Thursday that he supports an initiative that would change Arizona’s Constitution to ban gay marriages and deny government benefits to unmarried couples.
BUT, In 2004, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he opposed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage: Sen. John McCain of Arizona broke forcefully with President Bush and the Senate GOP leadership Tuesday evening over the issue of same-sex marriage, taking to the Senate floor to call a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban the practice unnecessary — and un-Republican. “The constitutional amendment we’re debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans,” McCain said.
BUT, ABC reported that McCain confided to Jerry Falwell that he WOULD support such an amendment:
McCain “reconfirmed” to Falwell that he would support a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman if a federal court were to strike down state constitutional bans on gay marriage.
It prompted the DNC’s Karen Finney to say, “Here he goes again, more double talk and pandering to the right wing from John McCain. It looks like there are real questions about where he truly stands on this issue, in fact, it’s getting hard to tell where he truly stands on a number of critical issues.”
— ECONOMY AND TAXES —
* McCain has transformed himself from a deficit hawk who mocked supply-side economics, into someone who sounds like he’s drunk deeply from the wackiest vats of supply-side Kool-Aid, to the point where he now claims raising taxes decreases revenues (a claim so wildly in conflict with the facts - for example federal tax revenues almost doubled in real terms after the Clinton tax increases - that it’s either a shameless lie or a product of astounding ignorance).
— ETHANOL —
* In regard to ethanol subsidies, McCain has gone from treating them as the worst sort of pork, to becoming a strong supporter of a program despised by economists, but beloved of Iowa farmers and the good people at Archer Daniels Midland.
— RELIGIOUS RIGHT —
* Six years ago McCain sternly condemned Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance.” Eighteen months ago he gave the commencement address at Falwell’s university, while openly embracing one of the most noxious figures of the religious right.
— TAX CUTS —
* McCain in 2000 assailed Bush’s proposed tax cuts as a sop to the rich, and a year later, with Bush in office, he voted against those cuts, declaring that “the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans.”
NOTE: His explaination AT THE TIME sounded very much like a democrat, (I opposed it because it benefits the rich instead of the middle class).
— DIRTY MONEY —
* McCain in 2000 was incensed when a pair of Texas businessmen, Sam and Charley Wyly, bankrolled some Bush-friendly TV ads that distorted McCain’s record. McCain declared at the time that their “dirty money” did not belong in national politics. But in 2006, McCain decided that their dirty money belonged in his campaign; he took $20,000 and allowed them to chair a McCain fund-raiser. (McCain later had to give back the money, because, it turns out, his new friends are reportedly under federal investigation.)
— CREATIONISM —
* McCain in 2006 suggested that creationism was not a fit topic for the schoolroom: “I respect those who think the world was created in seven days. Should it be taught as a science class? Probably not.” But he suggested the opposite in 2005 (”all points of view should be presented”), and next Friday he is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a confab sponsored by the Discovery Institute, a prominent creationism advocacy group.
How DARE McCain claim Romney is a flip flopper?
February 4th, 2008 at 12:42 am