McCain's Flip-Flops - What HASN'T He Waffled On?

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I'm sure all you Republicans and conservatives remember the "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it" comment made by John Kerry in 2004; there isn't a single sound-bite to use against GOP nominee John McCain this election, not because he hasn't flip-flopped on anything but because there are just soooooo many examples it's impossible to pick just one! http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=593495 Here are a few examples: McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.” http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral... *McCain said he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as“a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.”In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.” http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/18/mccain-greatest-cri... / Besides the Iraq War here are a few other things McCain has changed his mind about - a windfall-tax on oil company profits, the drilling moratorium, overturning Roe vs. Wade, tax cuts for the wealthy, Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program, “privatizing” Social Security, protecting abortion rights in cases of rape and incest, the estate tax, indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, a litmus test on any Supreme Court nominee, immunity for telecoms, storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba, diplomacy with Hamas and Syria, the NRA's role in the Republican Party’s policy making, HIS OWN lobbying-reform legislation from 1997, political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley, the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming, raising taxes... McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/mccain-... * McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14818.htm... *In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15033.htm... McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/mccain-... * McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14818.htm... *In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15033.htm... There are many, MANY more examples where these came from. I guess if you're going to vote for McBush you can just pick whichever side of each issue you agree with and be confident in knowing he's either on your side now or was at some point in the past and therefore - who knows? - may well be again! Annie