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John McCain ditches his liberal past and turns hard right
The Observer ^ | Sunday 11 July 2010 | Paul Harris

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; az2010; hayworth; immigration; jd; jdhayworth; johnmccain; kneepadrepublics; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mclame; mcqueeg; mcstupid; reincarnation; rino; vichy; votejdhayworthaz
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To: TomGuy
"If Mc lost his Senate seat, how many invites would he get from the MSM a year after? Few, if any.

He would also miss his kiss up "BUDDIES" Liberman and Ms Graham.

101 posted on 07/11/2010 8:16:31 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: mdittmar

Progressive.....in a RINO suit.


102 posted on 07/11/2010 9:04:30 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked
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103 posted on 07/11/2010 9:20:45 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: wolfpat; mdittmar
No. If he was right wing, he would have won.

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.

104 posted on 07/11/2010 9:24:15 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: mdittmar

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.


105 posted on 07/11/2010 9:32:39 AM PDT by IGBT (..it's the Carbon-Con. A green slime license to purge you of all your money.)
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To: mdittmar

John will always be Juan to me, a fraud if there ever was one.


106 posted on 07/11/2010 9:42:13 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Luke21
Well said!
107 posted on 07/11/2010 9:56:15 AM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: freespirited
More MSM lies and spin. The "many" that he claimed need to be sent back are the ones that have committed serious crimes. He put that at 17% of illegals. He said nothing about sending the other 83% back.

McCain hasn't changed his position at all. It's still AMNESTY.

108 posted on 07/11/2010 10:23:53 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: ...all of us, who consider ourselves progressive..)
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To: mdittmar
When does being a maverick turn into a shameless flip-flopper?

When the press decides to tell the truth about him.

109 posted on 07/11/2010 10:31:03 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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To: CyberAnt; CORedneck; AuntB; mdittmar

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


110 posted on 07/11/2010 10:36:15 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "I support his [McCain] position on immigration.")
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To: mdittmar
John McCain ditches his liberal past and turns hard right

Until the day after he wins the election.

111 posted on 07/11/2010 10:37:45 AM PDT by sport
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To: donna

Woodrow Wilson was President from 1902–1910. How far back do you want to go for Palin?

“All that progressives ask or desire is permission—in an era when development, evolution, is a scientific word—to 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


112 posted on 07/11/2010 10:42:50 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "I support his [McCain] position on immigration.")
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To: donna

Oops, sorry. Somehow I posted that on the wrong thread.


113 posted on 07/11/2010 10:44:45 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "I support his [McCain] position on immigration.")
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To: mdittmar

Mcain is trying to look like Hayworth...but that dog won’t hunt. Far too much water already under the bridge.


114 posted on 07/11/2010 10:56:10 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: sam_paine
I'm not sure about the others you list, but IIRC, Keyes was a late entry into that election just to provide some kind of a choice for the voters. There was NO WAY any late coming Republican was going to beat ANY democRAT in that district. So you can't blame Keyes for Obama.
115 posted on 07/11/2010 11:03:54 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: wolfpat
There was NO WAY any late coming Republican was going to beat ANY democRAT in that district.

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.

116 posted on 07/11/2010 11:18:32 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

Good point.


117 posted on 07/11/2010 11:25:37 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: Hildy
He makes me sick. Two faced weasel. But there are Republicans here in AZ who love their McCain. It’s like Kennedy in Massachusetts. It makes no sense. We are working so hard for JD, but it’s an uphill battle. The debate next week will be the telltale sign. If JD can put McCain on the Defensive, it might be a turning 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.

118 posted on 07/11/2010 11:46:10 AM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: mdittmar

Folks - McCain-Feingold is the reason you lost your country. MCCain is a Democrat and an evil man.


119 posted on 07/11/2010 12:21:41 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: mdittmar

So, did someone bitch-slap him and he suddenly woke up?


120 posted on 07/11/2010 12:24:03 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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