John McCain: The Old Warhorse

First, in a campaign year of crass political reinventions, McCain does not flip-flop. Instead, he seems to enjoy telling people what they don't want to hear. Apparently, at his age, and after what he went through in Vietnam, there is no reason to begin trimming the truth now. Full Story »

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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

So this Hoover Institution "scholar" writes a glorious hagiography of John McCain: more baloney than you'll find on the supermarket cold cuts shelf - especially the proclamations that McCain is no "flip flopper" and that he's still the "plain talker". Where has this rube been for past year ? He should have consulted the other "scholars" at Regis U. to discover if they might have perceived that the old war horse hadn't taken a fundamental(ist) extreme right turn not very long ago after he had earlier blasted those lovely folks at the same extreme which he then yearned to occupy for the sake of a more rectus position in the Republican horse race. And that was only one of the earlier flips that McCain flopped. Many more followed. Hanson was apparently out to lunch: balogna sandwiches, no doubt.

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