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Monday, June 23, 2008

McCain's About-Face on Public Financing

McCain certainly seems to have changed his view of the power of millions of online donors to change the campaign finance process. The below is from Mother Jones (good work!).

Here [McCain] is on the Fox News show "On the Record," in January 2004:

"I think it's wonderful that Howard Dean was able to use the Internet, $50, $75, $100 contributions. That's what we want it to be all about. We want average citizens to contribute small amounts of money, and that's a commitment to a campaign. So I'm for that. I think it's a great thing. I think the Internet is going to change American politics for the better."

And here he is on MSNBC's "Hardball," in June 2004:

"The Internet is generating more and more people involved in the political process with relatively small campaign contributions, $50, $75. That's wonderful. No longer can an office holder call up a CEO or a trial lawyer or a union leader and say, I need $1 million. And, by the way, your legislation is up before my committee again."

Posted by Metavirus at 6/23/2008 03:05:00 PM 0 comments  

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Monday, June 16, 2008

McCain Doing Violence to His Brand

New polls out this week show that McCain is doing much violence to his once-shiny brand as a result of his recent full-throated endorsements of any and all things Bush.

Voters have notoriously short memories, but it could be argued that McCain cheapened his own brand.

He embraced President Bush and attempted to become, like Bush, the choice of the Republican establishment. In the process, he helped obliterate recollections of his first run for president, when he became the first Republican in a long time with strong crossover appeal to independents and Democrats.

Losing his reputation for independence could prove particularly costly this year.

Last week, McCain's negatives among registered voters hit an all-time high of 34 percent in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. Voters who don't like McCain are, by an overwhelming margin, rejecting his political beliefs, not the kind of person he is, a recent Pew poll found.

Think about this. What is driving up his negatives?

Who knew that a wholesale embrace of George W. Bush and his disastrous policies of the last 7 years would be a bad thing?

Oh, almost everyone with an IQ over 5? I even think my new month-old niece has an inkling that McCain doing a volte-face on his alleged "maverickness" was probably ill-advised.

Read More: McCain has diluted his rare reputation

Posted by Metavirus at 6/16/2008 02:26:00 PM 0 comments  

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Monday, June 9, 2008

90s McCain: Withdraw Immediately from Somalia, Haiti

It was not too long ago when McCain was strongly advocating for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from America's interventions in Somalia and Haiti. Compared to his rhetoric about Democrats wanting to "wave the white flag of surrender" in Iraq, think on this McCain quote from 1994 when advocating the immediate withdrawal from Haiti:

['As soon as possible'] does not mean 'As soon as order is restored to Haiti'.

It doesn't mean 'As soon as democracy is flourishing in Haiti'.

It doesn't mean 'As soon as we have established a viable nation in Haiti'. '

As soon as possible' means 'As soon as we can get out of Haiti without losing any American lives'.

Pretty stark difference, eh? I guess his stance on "waving the white flag of surrender" depends on which constituency he is trying to appease at the time, i.e., the Republican Senate in the 90s and the Republican Base now.

See the video and judge for yourself:



Hat tip: Daily Dish

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