And here we come with moral equivalence once again. Have McCain's core principles changed over eight years? Perhaps he's gotten more conservative, but this is someone who always admired Ronald Reagan, so it hasn't been a sea change.
He wasn't exactly fond of folks like Falwell and Robertson, but when it suited him, took their endorsements.
He didn't like the people who were in charge of Bush's smear campaign in 2000 (that smeared him horribly), yet hired them to run his campaign
into the ground in 2008.
here is a transcript from CNN (from 2000).
CNN
Here is one of the passages.
My friends, we're building a new Republican majority, a majority to serve the values that have long defined our party and made our country great. Social conservatives should flock to our banner. Why should you fear a candidate who believes we should honor our obligations to the old and the young? Why should you fear a candidate who believes we should first cut taxes for those who need it most? Why should you fear a candidate who wants to reform the practices of politics in government so they fairly reflect your aspirations for your family and country? Why should you fear a candidate who would sign without hesitation a partial birth adoption -- abortion band, or who would work tirelessly with anyone to improve adoption and foster care choices for those who might be considering the taking of unborn life? Why should you fear a candidate...
That John McCain didn't want people to fear people.
Although he ironically said this too.
Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.
Although popular vote wise, he was correct. But the Pat Robertson Republicans are the ones that screwed things up AND who he's pandering to now.
I recognize and celebrate that our country is founded upon Judeo- Christian values, and I have pledged my life to defend America and all her values, the values that have made us the noblest experiment in history. But...political intolerance by any political party is neither a Judeo-Christian nor an American value. The political...tactics of division and slander are not our values,
Unless he's talking about that socialist/marxist/terrorist obama.
They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
That is until it benefits him in the political process.
McCain has gone away from what his 2000 campaign was about (granted, he did lose) and has gone into the fear and division business.
It's quite different when you're pro-Palestinian up until you speak to American Jews and then turn around the next day and become pro-Palestinian again.
link?
Maybe he said one thing that you took as being pro Palestinian, when maybe he's doing what a lot of people and say "let's work this out, regardless of who is at fault". I know it might be a new concept to you, but there are such things as concessions. You can't just say one thing and have it be a blanket statement for everyone.
It was often enough that he was asked to provide the toast at his farewell party, where that "guy from the neighborhood" just happened to be. Do we need to speculate on how well the best man at my wedding knows me? After all, he gave our toast as well.
Part of it's that I care more about our well-being than Israels. I care about our country first, and everyone else second. And it's not like because he's friends with Khalidi that it'll mean all the sudden he'll be letting Israel "die", or whatever paranoid delusions people have.
