McCain Flip Flops
On Every Key Issue
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The latest and biggest disaster is that McCain has thrown all sensible concerns about good governance aside to pander to masses of conservative Christian voters and their campaign dollars
Check out this unbelievably well done Jon Stewart clip on McCain’s Flip flops, then read down this list for yourself – it’s extensive and should concern you as to his sincerity and reliability
McCain is no longer a maverick – 100% flip flops! |
Here are a couple of dozen major flip flops – check them out yourself in detail.
ENERGY/OIL
NATIONAL SECURITY
TAXES
SELLING OUT TO THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
ENVIRONMENT
FOREIGN RELATIONS
IRAQ WAR
ECONOMY
ROE VS WADE
CIVIL RIGHTS
GAY RIGHTS
CAMPAIGN REFORM
SECOND AMENDMENT
HEALTH AND INSURANCE
IMMIGRATION
FLIP FLOPPINGON FRIENDS
McCain drill offshore? No, he’s not in favor of it.
No… wait, he *IS* in favor of it!
Here
McCain takes strong position opposing a windfall-tax on oil company profits.
McCain takes strong position favoring a windfall-tax on excess profits.
Here
McCain firmly denounced the value of ethanol as an alternative fuel in 2003;
now he thinks it’s a good thing.
Here
NATIONAL SECURITY
McCain stated that Bush ignored the law against warrantless-wiretap program;
but now it’s OK and Bush is happy with his buddy.
Here
McCain blasted Rumsfeld over indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay;
Now that the Supreme Court endorses his original position he says it is
“one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
Here
McCain supported Bush’s initiative to extend immunity to telecom
companies doing government dirty work on at will wiretapping;
No surprise: Now he doesn’t!
Here
McCain, as a former POW himself, used to be strongly against torture
but in February 2008 he backed Bush on waterboarding.
Here
McCain was tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 years and used to be against torture
No garner GOP support, he agreed to waterboarding and other forms of torture (the position of the Bush administration.)
Here
McCain was a vocal supporter of the Law of the Sea convention;
with the presidential race only two months away, he now sides with fellow Republicans and opposes it.
Here
John McCain is either lying or senile. Either way, he is not fit to be President |
TAXES
McCain used to “…remain opposed to full repeal of the estate tax”;
now he thinks it is one of the worst laws on the books.
Here
McCain on the issue of Social Security:
He’s adopted a two-fold position – he’s for it and against it.
Here
McCain says ‘no new taxes’ (for individuals), but his vision of the future is unnervingly vague:
he says he can’t really see a time when he would raise taxes.
McCain does not sit on the fence (yet) when it comes to endorsing a slash in corporate taxes.
Here
McCain adamantly opposed Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy;
with his race to the Oval Office he now supports some of Bush’s tax cuts.
Here
McCain said in 2005 that he opposed the Bush tax cuts because they were “too tilted to the wealthy.”
Now however he has sidled up to the President in support of making the tax cuts permanent.
Here
SELLING OUT TO THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
McCain can’t make up his mind over his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee
It depends on what day you ask him.
Here
McCain said Bob Jones’ views were anti American and derided Bush for delivering a speech at Bob Jones University.
Now McCain has said he would not shun Bob Jones if his views have moderated. He needed that campaign money!
Here
McCain firmly denounced TV preacher Jerry Falwell for his intolerance but later stood aside as Falwell asserted that sinning Americans (especially abortionists) had brought 9/11 upon themselves.
Here
McCain flounders when asked about his public affirmation that if he were offered the
VP position on John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004, he would consider it.
His infamous temper flared with questions about his well known deliberation with Kerry in that race.
Here
ENVIRONMENT
McCain is hot and cold on climate change reform,
rejecting some of the proposals he earlier embraced wholeheartedly.
Here
McCain: let’s put all the nuclear waste on Yucca Mountain in Nevada;
No, maybe that’s too close to home. Let’s send it overseas!
Here
FOREIGN RELATIONS
McCain historically has supported “…normalization of relations” with Cuba.
Now he attacks Obama for wanting the same thing.
Here
McCain embraced diplomacy with Hamas without imposing conditions on their attacks against Israel.
Now he does not agree with his own opinion.
Here
McCain criticizes Obama for wanting to sit at the talk table with Iran (all terrorists),
yet he thinks the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria (also all terrorists).
Here
McCain said in 2000 that he would engage armed troops to usurp ‘rogue states’,
countries that don’t embrace democracy as the U.S. sees it.
Of course, now he says, no, no – I didn’t really mean war.
Here
McCain’s has a “4x4 position” on long-term troop presence in Iraq:
He has changed his mind 4 times in 4 years.
Here
McCain openly said the war in Iraq would be won easily.
Now he says he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.”
Here
McCain claims that he was a staunch critic of Rumsfeld’s failed strategy in Iraq in the first four years of the war.
But all along his rhetoric has been ‘by- the- book Republican’ as he praises the progress made in Iraq.
Here
ECONOMY
McCain ‘swings as a pendulum do’ on economic policies, and swings back!
Here
McCain says there has been tremendous economic progress during the Bush administration;
Then, he says “but that’s no comfort to all those poor middle income class folks out there.”
When did McCain decide he was pro middle-America?
Here
McCain’s was tough on homeowners’ foreclosures saying they should not be “rewarded” for acting “irresponsibly.”
Now he is suddenly pro-middle class, he thinks people need relief under a new federal mortgage plan.
Here
McCain promised to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term.
Now he thinks it might take eight years which coincidentally means he actually thinks he would be elected for two terms.
Here
McCain takes staunch position against earmark projects and pork barreling for Arizona.
What does he call the $10 million for the University of Arizona academic center named after Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist?
Even the National Taxpayers Union wondered why McCain would OK making federal taxpayers pay for the center.
Here
McCain used to say he would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade;
now he believes the Supreme Court ‘”should/could” repeal its decision so that the issue can be turned over to the state level.
Here and Here
McCain appears not to understand Roe v. Wade,
Because he is both for and against it.
Here
McCain used to want a more liberal position allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest.
But the Christian Evangelists offered campaign money
if he would take Palin as VP, and now he doesn’t.
Here
Thanks to the big money that made McCain pick Sarah Palin,
now McCain wants to overturn Roe Vs Wade – MAJOR Flip Flopper!! |
CIVIL RIGHTS
McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., in order to appeal to racist white voters,
Before he supported it.
Here
McCain used to say that the Confederate flag was a ‘symbol of heritage’ in order to appeal to racist white voters,
but two years later, said the flag should be taken down.
Here
McCain has flip-flopped saying gay marriage should be allowed and then that gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
He wants the issue turned over to the state level so he can evade it all together.
Here
McCain says he has no problem with a pro-choice running mate;
just as long as the candidate doesn’t go for gay rights.
Here
Flip Flop – Gay Marriage is okay – then Gay Marriage is NOT okay |
CAMPAIGN REFORM
McCain feels the heat from the GOP over his support of campaign-finance reform measure.
By June 2007, he decided against his own legislation.
Here
McCain championed campaign-finance reform,
But in his bid for the presidency he has backed away from his own legislation.
Here
McCain: proposed a ban in 1997 to prevent a candidate from paying registered lobbyists.
If it had been enacted, that same law would have crushed McCain’s campaign.
Here
McCain sponsored legislation in 2006 mandating that lobbying coalitions disclose their financial donors.
In 2007, McCain told far-right activist groups that he no longer believes in this
legislation which would indeed have an impact on McCain’s presidential campaign.
Here
SECOND AMENDMENT
McCain argued against the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms)
but now that he is counting each vote, he told the NRA that he supports the Second Amendment.
Here
HEALTH AND INSURANCE
McCain used to be a champion on the anti-tobacco issue:
But in his race for the presidency he forsake his good record and has gone so far as to
hire Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
Here
McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, legislation to give legal status to children of illegal immigrants who graduate from high school.
But in 2007 he actually voted against it as it was unpopular within the GOP.
Here
McCain has now come out against the immigration reform legislation he introduced in 2006.
Here
FLOPPING ON FRIENDS
McCain adopted a holier than thou posture against Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly in 2000
when he accused them of corruption to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign.
Eight years later in his bid for the presidency McCain reached out to the Wylys for financial support.
Here
McCain pouts that it’s all Obama’s fault that he had a public tantrum over his
Yo-yo position on personal attack strategies that have become the hallmark of his campaign.
Here
McCain did not want to align himself with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2000
believing that Kissinger “would taint the image of the ‘Straight Talk Express.’”
Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for McCain’s presidential campaign in New York.
Here
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One minute into this video, hear another amazing “flip flop” |
