It's true. John McCain, despite the the common wisdom, is the very definition of a flip-flopping Republican candidate. Almost as bad as Mitt Romney, if that's possible. But the public perception and media spin about McCain has somehow been ingrained, and it's going to take someone with a record of consistency to counter that in the general election. As Senator Kerry explains to Andrea Mitchell, that person is Barack Obama.
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"The Bushification of John McCain" started in 2004, just two short years after President Bush swiftboated the Senator mercilessly, and since then, his record of enabling the administration, from his 100 years war to his flip-flop on taxes, religion and womens' rights, to his birthday party with the President while the Gulf coast was drowning is proof that this John McCain is no maverick. What he is, on the contrary, is Bush III.
Master of the bad joke, McCain has demonstrated that he's equally capable making fun of children and of making a mockery of our foreign relations. I wonder how he thinks that will play in the Middle East?
It's not that John McCain has no sense of what the President's war has cost the American people in blood and treasure and moral authority. It's that he doesn't have the will to stop it. He continues to mislead the American people a la GW by insisting we have Al-Qaeda on the run when everyone knows they're just as strong as ever in Afghanistan.
What we need to counter the Republicans this fall is a nominee who has opposed the policy of Bush-McCain from the start. We need someone who has distinguished himself from the failed policies of this administration by opposing the George Bush's war from the start, not someone who still refuses to admit the mistake of trusting this administration with the authority to go to war in Iraq.
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Can we put that person over the top this Tuesday?
Yes. We. Can.
