OK, I'm confused. I was pretty sure McCain opposed a constitutional amendment but supported a state amendment? This little lost nugget sure seems to be another gem of the flip flop brand.

If McCain doesn't want an abortion he shouldn't have one.

I'm confused too... this 'maverick' is more flippy-floppy than Romney. Perhaps McManiac should choose him as his veep... they'd go well together.

McCain likes to have it both ways.  In fact that pretty much sums up his campaign strategy.  Get the conservative christians thinking he's finally joined them but keep everyone else thinking he's still the same old maverick.  I think it's working because my sister actually sat in my living room the other day and told me McCain was just saying those things to get elected but she knew he would still support the choice, etc. once he was elected.  She may be right but wow.  Considering how many times I've heard Hillary Clinton and other dems ripped to shreds for pandering and because they would supposedly 'do or say anything to get elected' it's amazing that McCain can do it so freely and it's considered good politics.

MM4A has put its collective finger on Sen. McCain's biggest problem - when you try to discuss his position on a given issue it is very helpful to also include the time when you are quoting his statements.

Those statements change.

A lot.

Just as a single (glaring) example:  Sen. McCain opposes earmarks and other waste in the Department of Defense budget allocations - until its time to vote.  They he supports them by voting "For" the budget.  He gains the reputation of a fighter willing to take on the establishment - as long as people don't notice that his position is constant - constantly changing... 

 

 

It never ceases to amaze me, how human beings endowed with the truly "human-making" gift of speech, simply repeat words that they hear, like parrots do, apparently without any understanding or concept or image in their minds, of what those words are meant to invoke... like parrots, who are not at all human, despite their uncanny ability to mimic human speech (often with a perfect pronounciation and articulation and inflection: it's uncanny!)

There's a word in the English language, and what that words signifies is an intensely private surgical procedure, that only people in the most distressing of personal circumstances elect to receive, and that no person in their right mind would ever elect to witness... and yet for some reason, there are people who say this word when discussing Public Policy and National Policy: and in Public discussion they invoke that intensely private surgical procedure in the minds of others, despite it being something (as I said) that no sane person would ever choose to witness.

And I know why one side of the American Political spectrum uses that word in a Political campaign: to bait the other side, the Democrats, into using it: to bait those Democrats into making Public affirmations of that intensely private surgical procedure: and in the process, alienating those Democrats from the millions of Americans who are horrified at the imagery invoked by that word.

 

It's Democrats who never cease to amaze me, that they use a word in Public discussions of Public and National Policy, and I look at their faces and wonder if indeed the image invoked by that word is actually in their minds, in the moment they say it... or are they just like parrots, who have no concept or image of any particular thing in their bird brains, when they say the words they do, uncannily.

 

I still recall 1996.  Congressional republicans had 2 options:

Save some babies' lives by backing Clinton's partial-birth abortion ban except for life and health of the mother, or

Stonewall on the life and health part to be able to send "Clinton is a baby killer" mailings to the sheep.

Republicans have lost all credibility on literally every issue.  Pro choice might be the only defensible position they hold, and they pissed it away.

Come on, give the media a break...who can keep up with all of McCain's flip flops? McCain changes positions more than a porno actress...and just as frequently.