Posted on 07/10/2010 4:37:26 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Republican 'maverick' bends in the wind of Tea Party-style politics
When does being a maverick turn into a shameless flip-flopper? Pretty much about now, according to many observers of the long and storied political career of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Senator McCain, pictured, is now caught in one of the toughest political fights of his life, facing off in a primary fight against the Tea Party-style challenger JD Hayworth. And he is doing it in Arizona, which has just passed a strict anti-illegal immigrant law so controversial the White House is taking it to court.
All this means that McCain's traditionally liberal attitudes to immigration reform were always likely to take a bit of a hit. But few people can have predicted just how far McCain would go in rowing away from the previous positions that won him praise as recently as 2007 when he co-sponsored reform legislation with famed liberal Senator Ted Kennedy.
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He would also miss his kiss up "BUDDIES" Liberman and Ms Graham.
Progressive.....in a RINO suit.
Like Rick Santorum? Like George Allen? Like Alan Keyes who gave us Obama in the first place? Rush says, "Conservatism wins every time." Not true. Sometimes idiots vote like teenagers.
Ronald Reagan could not have won in 2008 following the media beatdown and Bush and the financial meltdown panic.
we can’t trust the “maveric”. he’s not trust worthy and disruptive to conservative principles. Send John to the rocker. If he looses I’ll bet he will change parties.
John will always be Juan to me, a fraud if there ever was one.
McCain hasn't changed his position at all. It's still AMNESTY.
When the press decides to tell the truth about him.
This is where McCain’s been for decades:
1988: Honored by La Raza for opposing official English
McCain attacked Proposition 106, a [AZ] statewide referendum that was being advanced by the so-called English-only movement. McCain told the teachers, Why would we want to pass some kind of initiative that a significant portion of our population considers an assault on their heritage?
Because of his position on the English-only initiative and his willingness to fight for a pluralistic American culture, McCain was one of 10 members of congress who were honored by the National Council of La Raza, a nationwide coalition of Hispanic organizations. In a speech at a ceremony in Washington, before an audience of 500, McCain again attacked English-only initiatives.
The building of our great nation is not the work of immigrants from one or two countries, McCain said, Our nation and the English language have done quite well with Chinese spoken in California, German in Pennsylvania, Italian in New York, Swedish in Minnesota, and Spanish throughout the Southwest. I fail to see the cause for alarm now.
Source: Man of the People, by Paul Alexander, p.122-123 Jan 19, 2004
Until the day after he wins the election.
Woodrow Wilson was President from 19021910. How far back do you want to go for Palin?
All that progressives ask or desire is permissionin an era when development, evolution, is a scientific wordto interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
- Woodrow Wilson
Oops, sorry. Somehow I posted that on the wrong thread.
Mcain is trying to look like Hayworth...but that dog won’t hunt. Far too much water already under the bridge.
And there was no way that anyone who had any appearance of being on the same side as GW Bush on anything (war, taxes, economy) was going to beat Obama in that chaos that surrounded 2008's election. Nobody. Not even Ronald Reagan could've beat that tide.
Good point.
That has to be it, Hildy. A Kennedy type love for him.
I've given it a great deal of thought, because from the outside, I thought his seat would be fairly easy to take, given his obnoxious voting record on "illegal immigration" alone, plus the SCOTUS overturning his UNCONSTITUTIONAL McCain/Feingold, and his continuous "reaching across the damn aisle!"
Couple that with the anti-incumbent sentiment this year and I thought "Good-bye, John."
If he pulls this out, I will only conclude that Arizonans were not ready to unseat the presidential candidate from AZ, but like you said, JD CAN KILL HIM IN THE DEBATES NEXT WEEK.
Thank you for all your work on JD's behalf and don't stop now! I wish I could send him more money.
Folks - McCain-Feingold is the reason you lost your country. MCCain is a Democrat and an evil man.
So, did someone bitch-slap him and he suddenly woke up?
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