Wow - John The Shear Volume Is Impressive

So it finally hit me, John gets no scrutiny from the MSM over his flip flops because there are so many they just cannot keep track. The Carpetbagger does a great job of documenting the lot of them.

 

Here’s a few of them(out of 70).

 

National Security Policy

1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes the opposite.

3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

4. In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.

5. McCain was for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay before he was against it.

6. When Barack Obama talked about going after terrorists in Pakistani mountains with predators, McCain criticized him for it. He’s since come to the opposite conclusion.

Foreign Policy

7. McCain was for kicking Russia out of the G8 before he was against it.

8. McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.

Military Policy

14. McCain recently claimed that he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as “a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.” In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.”

15. McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good and a bad idea.

16. McCain was against additional U.S. forces in Afghanistan before he was for it.

Domestic Policy

21. McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)

22. McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.

29. McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.

30. McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.

31. McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

Economic Policy

37. McCain was against Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy before he was for them.

40. McCain said in 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were “too tilted to the wealthy.” By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and falsely argued that he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.

41. McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

44. McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off economically than they were before Bush took office.

69. McCain believed powerful right-wing activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist was “corrupt, a shill for dictators, and (with just a dose of sarcasm) Jack Abramoff’s gay lover.” McCain now considers Norquist a key political ally.

70. McCain was for presidential candidates giving speeches in foreign countries before he was against it.

 

Wow, thought I could just pare it down to few highlights, but my gawd, the man has no soul…………..he has held every position on every topic imaginable, why is the MSM allowing this to slide(my earlier snide remark aside)