AMERICAN FREEDOM SERIES 10 on John McCain
CHANGING HIS TUNE on Every issue. (except immigration)
Politics and Associations
1. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist John Hagee. Now he doesn’t. (He also believes his endorsement from Hagee was both a good and bad idea.)
2. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.
3. McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.
4. McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
8. 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.
9. McCain believed powerful right-wing activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist was “corrupt, a shill for dictators, and (with just a dose of sarcasm) Jack Abramoff’s gay lover.” McCain now considers Norquist a key political ally.
10. McCain was for presidential candidates giving speeches in foreign countries before he was against it.
11. McCain had been both for and against considering a pro-choice running mate for the Republican presidential ticket. If you hear of any reversals that have not made the series, please let me know.
(hat tip to Carpetbagger)
