I had first posted this diary last week. Since then I have noticed a number of diaries listing McCain's flip-flops, without links. This diary started out as a response to all the notes I was getting from a republican customer. I used it to have a spirited conversation with the same crazy republican. It didn't work, he even thinks drilling offshore is a necessity. I came back with logic and he rattled off republican drivel! Since it took all day to research my links and make sure they worked, I was hoping it could be used in arguements or just to forward in email to all those pesky republicans you might know! Please forgive me for re-posting, but it was a lot of work, just to languish in dead diary land. Below is my original, I hope all links are still working. Enjoy!
Let me get this straight, after 12 years of a republican congress (undoubtedly one of the worse in history considering the amount of republican deviants and criminals that had to resign and/or were arrested, Terry Schiavo, need I say more about exactly what this congress found important) and 8 years of the absolute worst president in history, you want us to give republicans another chance. How is it, term after term, republicans cry "just give us a little more time", even a blind man can see, republican ideas only benefit the wealthy!
Funny how some of the biggest criminals were republicans,
Nixon – need I say more.
Ronald Reagan – we are still paying for his fiscal irresponsibility.
Reagan and Bush the 1st – Iran Contra
This list goes on and on ending with the biggest criminal in our time – George W. Bush (the man who would be king) And I certainly don’t have the time, nor do I type well enough, to go on!
and now you want us to support this man?
McCain struggles to keep temper in check during NYT interview
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
And please don’t forget 9/11, which happened on the Republican watch, because your president was on vacation again! And Condi didn’t think all of the warnings were important.
Look at what we have become, we executed Japanese officials after WWII, for the same torture GW Bush and John McCain happily admit to. Habeas Corpus was suspended for most of his term and if you take the time to read some of his presidential signing statements or directives, you would be horrified. Our constitution has been shredded, and I for one will not give republicans one more chance (not that I ever would have, my IQ is too high to have voted for the moron you put in office).
I could pretty much go on and on, the media’s scandalous lack of real coverage of the candidates is horrifying enough for me to believe I am living through the red scare of the 50’s on steroids. I have never seen so many gullible people, how, with the state of our country, would you think I would ever give another republican a chance?
I happily support Obama, as I have Gore and Kerry and cannot wait until I can say "President Barack Obama"!!!
Attached you will find just a few of McCains Flip Flops, republicans have become very, very scary people. Are you brainwashed? I heard a political comedian once say, "Republicans pee on your head and tell you it’s raining. Democrats, at least, hand you an umbrella!" I am voting for the umbrella.
List of McCain Flip/Flops ... wow .. this isn't a short list, and it seems to grow by the day!!
* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.
http://www.oliverwillis.com/...
* McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.
http://rawstory.com/...
* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain defended "privatizing" Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)
http://www.veracifier.com/...
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.perrspectives.com/...
* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.motherjones.com/...
* 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."
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain said he would "not impose a litmus test on any nominee." He used to promise the opposite.
http://www.americablog.com/...
* McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration’s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here:
http://rawstory.com/...
* McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/...
and here:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/...
* McCain supported moving "towards normalization of relations" with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
* He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
*McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a"‘read my lips’ candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?" referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 pledge. "No new taxes," McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, "I’m not making a ‘read my lips’ statement, in that I will not raise taxes."
http://johnmcbush2008.org/...
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
* McCain is both for and against a "rogue state rollback" as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/...
* McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
*In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain has changed his economic worldview on multiple occasions.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here:
http://hotair.com/...
* McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off than they were before Bush took office.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain believes his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee was both a good and bad idea.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
*McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be "rewarded" for acting"irresponsibly."His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
and here:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/...
*Restoring the Everglades. On June 5, John McCain traveled to the Everglades to win over Floridians and environmentally-minded voters. There he proclaimed, "I am in favor of doing whatever’s necessary to save the Everglades." Sadly, as ThinkProgress documented, McCain not only opposed $2 billion in funding for the restoration of the Everglades national park, he backed President Bush’s veto of the legislation in 2007. "I believe," he said, "that we should be passing a bill that will authorize legitimate, needed projects without sacrificing fiscal responsibility."
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here:
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/...
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. Now he’s against it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/...
*Fighting Job Losses in Michigan. During the run-up to the Michigan primary, John McCain cautioned workers there in January that he didn’t want to raise "false hopes that somehow we can bring back lost jobs," adding that it" wasn’t government’s job to protect buggy factories and haberdashers when cars replaced carriages and men stopped wearing hats." But after getting trounced in Michigan by Mitt Romney and watching the economy deteriorate further, McCain has had a change of heart. As Bloomberg noted on June 5:
Nowadays, the party’s presumptive nominee is singing a different tune, striking a populist pose and saying "new jobs are coming"... ...Over the past few months, however, McCain has taken a lesson from Romney, acknowledging recently that "Americans are hurting." Returning to Michigan last month, the Arizona senator told a local television station that he would fight for new jobs and the state wouldn’t "be left behind."
Perhaps the good people of Michigan, as John McCain suggested to a Kentucky audience in April, can make a living on eBay.
http://www.perrspectives.com/...
* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
and here
http://mediamatters.org/...
*Opposing Hurricane Katrina Investigations. During a June 4th town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, John McCain answered a reporter’s question regarding Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the New Orleans levees by announcing:
"I’ve supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I’ve been here to New Orleans. I’ve met with people on the ground."
As it turns out, not so much. McCain’s revisionist history neglects to mention that in 2005 and 2006 he twice voted against a commission to study the government’s response to Katrina. He also opposed three separate emergency funding measures providing relief to Katrina victims, including the extension of five months of Medicaid benefits. And as ThinkProgress pointed out, "until traveling there one month ago, McCain had made just one public tour of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina touched down in August 2005."
http://thinkprogress.org/...
*Phasing out rather than repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax
http://money.cnn.com/...
*In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving"feedback" on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain said before the war in Iraq, "We will win this conflict. We will win it easily." Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was "probably going to be long and hard and tough."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
*McCain said he was the "greatest critic" of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as"a mission accomplished." In March 2004, he said, "I’m confident we’re on the right course."In December 2005, he said, "Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course."
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade
http://mediamatters.org/... to saying the exact opposite.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed,
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
http://www.vanityfair.com/...
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as "an agent of intolerance" in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans "deserved" the 9/11 attacks.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* On a related note, he said 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were "too tilted to the wealthy." By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and insisted he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.
http://www.care2.com/...
*In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending "dirty money" to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
http://abcnews.go.com/...
* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.
http://www.nysun.com/...
* McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
http://www.openleft.com/...
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
http://money.cnn.com/...
anf here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
http://mediamatters.org/...
* McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he "would taint the image of the‘Straight Talk Express.’" Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here
http://www.youtube.com/...
and here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/...
* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.
http://themoderatevoice.com/...
and here:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...
* And now he’s both for and against overturning Roe v. Wade.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and here:
http://www.sfgate.com/...
The dreaded "flip-flop" is, according to the GOP, the latest cardinal sin for someone seeking national office !!!
And I almost forgot!
The Keating Five: http://en.wikipedia.org/...
need I say more...
Seriously, this is the guy you want us to trust? Really?