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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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
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To: Will88

“British newspaper will put things in plainer and more accurate terms than most any MSM outlet in the US. “

The Brits have a history of being plain spoken. This is a race of people who shrieked “Goggle-eyed whore” at Anne Boleyn and this was when the monarchs were all powerful.


141 posted on 07/12/2010 11:16:25 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: gwilhelm56

Didn’t McPain in the past face almost no primary opposition. People in AZ are unaccustomed to competitive primaries for the McPain seat.


142 posted on 07/12/2010 11:23:30 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Rush was right when he said America can survive Obama but not the Obama supporters.)
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To: mdittmar
The Republican 'maverick' bends in the wind of Tea Party-style politics

More like floats with the wind... like flatulence.

What part of GO AWAY does the guy not understand? Is it, GO, or AWAY? ;-)
143 posted on 07/12/2010 12:11:20 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: hiredhand
Which gravites me to be cautiously pessimistic that even Palin, evident by ties to McCain could make her just another corporate zombie drone of the political system talking a big act just to pander to the conservative demographic group,(like Romney for instance).

as if to get to the upper level of politics and get entrance to "the ivory tower" of either party, one has to be an official member of the new World Order/Tri Latteral Commission cult

144 posted on 07/12/2010 1:05:46 PM PDT by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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