Legal Commentary

The New John McCain

By TChris

The old John McCain abhorred intolerance:

In 2000, when he was running against Mr. Bush for the Republican nomination, Mr. McCain castigated Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell as “agents of intolerance.”

The new John McCain embraces intolerance:

The campaign has been peppering over 600 socially conservative grass-roots and national leaders with regular e-mail messages — highlighting, for example, Mr. McCain’s statement criticizing a May 15 decision by the California Supreme Court overturning the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, or his recent speech on his judicial philosophy. ... Charlie Black, one of Mr. McCain’s senior advisers, recently sat down with a dozen prominent evangelical leaders in Washington, where he emphasized, among other things, Mr. McCain’s consistent anti-abortion voting record.

Who says McCain is against change? He changes all the time. John McCain: the candidate who wants to return America to the 19th Century.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).