A little something to keep in mind as you watch Walnuts Depends' acceptance speech and/or the commentary afterwards.
For months, Steve Benen, formerly of Carpetbagger Report and now at Political Animal, has been keeping a list of all of John McCain's flip-flops since he started his most recent presidential campaign.
His stunning reversal on torture alone - from principled upholder of the Geneva Conventions and American decency to giggling, drooling cheerleader for waterboarding - is enough to disqualify him from any public officer.
But Benen has documented much, much more. (75 at last count.)
And when I say flip-flops, I don't mean the rational, common-sense changes in position resulting from new facts on the ground, as they say.
No, McShame's "flip-flops" are all cavalier jettisoning of his most passionately held core beliefs, reversed for the sole purpose of kow-towing to enough wingnut freakazoids to win the repug primary.
Totally ammoral, out of pure ambition. Every single one.
Read the whole thing.
Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The Real "Maverick"
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Labels: 2008 Presidential Campaign, flip-flops, John McCain, republican convention