McCain the Flip-flop King
ecthompsonmd
July 8, 2008
The Cartpetbagger Report has compiled an impressive list of position reversals for John McCain: Sixty-one flip-flops and still counting! From TCR: National Security Policy 1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite. 2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes the opposite. 3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the
