No surprises here: "Maverick" McCain flip-flopping all over.

[BlueMTexpat]

I'm just not sure where the idea that he ever had a "liberal past" came from.

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John McCain ditches his liberal past and turns hard right
The Republican 'maverick' bends in the wind of Tea Party-style politics
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It is hard to imagine that he was once seen as a politician who stuck to his beliefs and always put a good policy ahead of self-interested politics. Since he lost to Barack Obama in 2008 he has retreated into the Republican right wing as the Tea Party's grip on the party's activist roots has strengthened. He was a strident critic of dropping the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on gays serving openly in the military. He has changed or softened his stance on issues such as closing Guantánamo Bay and financial reform.

But McCain was never the principled rogue many of his former media fans believed in. As he himself said recently: "I never considered myself a maverick." Which is in itself a reversal of his previous position. In the 2008 campaign, the term "maverick" was used prominently. Perhaps it should be replaced with "just another rightwing politician".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/11/john-mccain-maverick-arizona-tea-party

[DJ13]

1. Gasping

[BlueMTexpat]

2. LOL - I love it! nt

[pretzel4gore]

3. USS Forrestal...

born with a silver-spoon-in-his-piehole mccain is summed up in this one incident. his daddy was an admiral!
and he wanted to be president!

[tularetom]

8. His granddaddy had a less than stellar record in WWII

Google "Battle of Savo Island" - widely acknowledged to be one of the US Navy's worst defeats in WWII was a direct result of the failure of Adm John S McCain to order the necessary recon flights off Guadalcanal in August 1942.

So there is a tradition of humiliating military fuckups in the McCain family, and also seemingly a tradition of escaping responsibility for those fuckups. Granddaddy was later decorated and posthumously promoted to full Admiral (he died right after Hiroshima).

Less widely known is his involvement in the loss of three destroyers in a typhoon off the Philippines in December 1944 while serving as Halsey's task force commander. Only the intervention of Admiral Nimitz saved both Halsey and McCain from the general court martial that was recommended by a court of inquiry.

[JBoy]

4. Video evidence that McCain doesn't mind being a fucking liar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmLVtU6fTPs

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Those pesky tubes'll get ya every time!

Thanks for the evidence. :toast:

[tekisui]

6. That's what Mavericks do.

[old mark]

7. Remember all those signs "Country First"? I guess he didn't mean it....nt

[Voice for Peace]

9. just another egomaniac

who likes to get revenge when he loses elections.

[Zoroastor]

10. One more sacrifice to the "New" right...

...Moderates either get on board or get pushed out entirely.