Monday, January 29th, 2007...11:38 am
The REAL McCain
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Longtime readers will no doubt know about my continuing frustration with otherwise informed liberal activists who tell me that John McCain is really a moderate, even a liberal, and just hides it because of his party. “Just wait,” they tell me, “McCain will be the best thing for liberalism in America.”
It’s enough to make me choke up my pierogi and chorizo.
Anyhow, a new site has come to the rescue of folks like me. The site is called The REAL McCain and includes a video detailing his flip-flops. There is also a video on YouTube of Mitt Romney acting like a pro-choice Democrat. I know I’m going out on a limb here, but I have a suspicion that the next year and a half will be filled with this sort of thing.
Anyway, here is their video.
7 Comments
January 29th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Your friends are right — McCain could be the best thing for liberalism in America. They are just right for the wrong reasons …
January 29th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Funny Comrade Ted, a Liberal telling Republicans how we should vote? Guess your really terrified of Sen. McCain. It’s because you know he will beat your hero, Hillary Rotten Clinton.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Tony,
Have you seen McCain’s sinking approval ratings of late? They way he’s going he’d be lucky to beat me.
He badly needs to find away to solve his “Iraq problem” amonst the general voting populace. He’s clearly on the losing end of that one, but finding a way to move back to the middle without disenchanting Rep. primary voters is a very difficult proposition for him.
Much can change in 12-18 months, but right now the deteriorating Iraq situation combined with McCain’s determined support for it (and his “doubling-down” by supporting the surge) is placing him in a closing vise.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I’m not a big fan of Hillary, but it appears than Sen. McSurge is trailing Clinton, Edwards and Obama right at the moment. It seems that the surge is mostly a fizzle with the American electorate.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:32 am
John McCain and Jon Kyl apparently can get re-elected in Arizona forever, regardless of how they vote in the Senate. Nationwide, it’s a much different story. Beloved Senators find that the power of incumbency that they have in their state does not translate to adoration by the whole country. The same goes for Hillary. Anyone who has been in the Senate for as long as McCain will have to run on his record. He cannot re-invent himself anymoe as it would be easier to change the direction of the wind.
January 30th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Ted, was it you that told the story about receiving black flowers at midnight from someone in the McCain campaign the night after the election one year? I think it was you, but it might have been someone else.
Anyway, it is worth noting that even among Republicans there is a gnawing realization that though they can push for staying in Iraq longer, ‘victory’ is not likely to be achieved, and that their only argument left against withdrawal is ‘things will be worse if we do,’ not any positive argument or vision that makes it worth the continuing troop losses. Against this backdrop it is not hard to see why the most pro-war Republican, McCain, is losing support. And it will be interesting to see how well Chuck Hagel (the anti-war Republican) will do in the Republican primaries. It is hard for Republicans to outright oppose their own President and speak out against the war, but in the privacy of the voting booth… here’s an early prediction that Hagel does surprisingly well, and if so then the GOP will really have to re-assess their commitment to the war in Iraq.
January 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
How good would that be - a pierogi filled with chorizo!?!?
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