Thursday, July 03, 2008

McFlippery

Documenting the endless political repositioning of John "I never said that" McCain.... From the past couple of weeks alone (go to Carpetbagger Report for the whole litany):
* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.

* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.

* McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

* McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)

Wait, I’m not done with the last two weeks yet….

* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.

* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

* He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

* McCain said he would “not impose a litmus test on any nominee.” He used to promise the opposite....

John McCain... the guy everyone says is already a known quantity.

1 comment:

MT said...

Well, he's got plausible deniability, being able to chalk it up to that Alzheimer's or dementia or whatever.