28 January 2008
The American Conservative Union
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Presidential Election 2008 .
Another hat-tip to Cavetrollhead for this great article:
Although John McCain’s lifetime rating with the American Conservative Union is 83 His last two year average 70 and last year he has a 65.
David A. Keene is Chairman of the American Conservative Union and he sets the record straight.
“No one can question McCain’s courage or his patriotism. John McCain is rightly admired for his service and suffering on behalf of his country, but even the most cursory examination of his supposed courage and consistency as an elected politician reveals the man to something less that he claims. Other candidates who change their positions on important issues are described as “flip-floppers,” but John McCain is viewed as that rare politician whose views on important issues have “matured” over the years. From taxes to his relationship with social conservatives and his position on Second Amendment or “gun” issues, McCain has shown an unending willingness to do just what he so self-righteously accuses others of doing-tailoring his position to suit his needs of the moment.
His opposition to the Bush tax cuts at the time they were passed, for example, was accompanied by quasi-class warfare rhetoric of the sort we now identify with Democratic populists like background: John Edwards, McCain and his friends wouldn’t describe that flip-flop as a flip-flop, of course, any more than they saw his flip-flop on Second Amendment questions some years ago as such. In fact, though the Arizona senator had been considered by most gun owners and NRA members like me as a reliable supporter of the Second Amendment, in 2000 he reversed field and threw in with the gun control lobby.
5 Comments so far...
Jesse Says:
28 January 2008 at 9:32 pm.
Every blog that goes up I expect to be the one you promised from Roy. Where is it?
Joy Bischoff Says:
28 January 2008 at 9:48 pm.
Jesse, Roy had to work this weekend. We were thinking it would be better to put it out after tomorrow. Right now there is so much focus and intensity on this Florida race. It is a very important information and we want to give it its due.
Matt Says:
28 January 2008 at 10:06 pm.
What a relief to finally hear people calling McCain the flip-flopper. He scares me. I think he is a little scary. Remember his song bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran? Yup I’m nervous about tomorrow.
Stumpy Says:
28 January 2008 at 10:13 pm.
take a laxative
E.E. Says:
28 January 2008 at 10:27 pm.
StumpyStumpyStumpy
I’m nervous too. I wish this article would be blazed across the country or at least Florida.
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