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National Review by Andrew C. McCarthy | Jun. 2, 2008 (Opinion)

The McCain campaign reassures on surveillance reform, but ...

The campaign declined to answer my question directly. Nevertheless, its response implicitly shows Sen. McCain's thinking has changed as time has gone on and he has educated himself on this issue. The campaign now says (all italics below are mine):

[N]either the Administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the ACLU and the trial lawyers, understand were Constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the ... Full Story »

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by Michael Evelyn - Oct. 1, 2008

Revealing article. Want to know how Sen. McCain sets (flip-flops) his policy? He succumbs to pointed questions, pleas, and cajoling. This op-ed was a call for McCain to show his conservative bona-fides. Apparently he has listened and has, as the article beseeched, decided to lead the Bush cause on warrantless wiretapping. The context here is whether we as readers should be concerned that a presidential candidate policy positions are so flexible, adaptable and and this stage of a campaign, still open to not just change, nor evolution even, but complete reversal.