Shocking - John McCain Lying To The Evangelical Right? Big Media Will Praise It As Maverickness!

I almost feel bad for the evangelical right. Almost. John McCain is a guy who following the 2000 SC Primary in which evangelicals spreads smears that he had an illegtimate black daughter, ripped into the evangelical right as agents of intolerance. However, John McCain took that back, and spent the primaries claiming he is dedicated to appointing judges who will overturn Roe v. Wade, and decided that the people who smeared his daughter, aren't that bad after all. Well, after his campaign promised evangelicals that he would pick a right to life VP, McCain has said that he might consider a pro-choice VP.

Now, here's the thing. McCain is once again contradicting himself with lie after lie, but Big Media will likely tee this up as an admirable trait, because McCain is displaying maverickness in going against his core constitency and tacking to the middle, despite his promises to the contrary. When anyone else does this, they are being calculating or a typical politician. However, when McCain lies, it actually shows that he is being honest, because he is pissing off a particular constituency.

I guess if I get caught red handed in a fib, and they ask if I lied, I will look them in the eye, and proclaim, "NO! I AM BEING A MAVERICK!"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080814/pl_politico/12542

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McCain’s comments Wednesday to the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes that former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge’s pro-abortion rights views wouldn’t necessarily rule him out quickly found their way into the in-boxes of Christian conservatives. For those who have been anxiously awaiting McCain’s pick as a signal of his ideological intentions, there was deep concern that their worst fears about the Arizona senator may be realized.

“It absolutely floored me,” said Phil Burress, head of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values. “It would doom him in Ohio.”

Burress emailed about a dozen “pro-family leaders” he knows outside Ohio and forwarded it to three McCain aides tasked with Christian conservative outreach.

“That choice will end his bid for the presidency and spell defeat for other Republican candidates,” Burress wrote in the message.

He and other Ohio conservatives met privately with McCain in June, and while the nominee didn’t promise them an anti-abortion rights running mate, his staff said they could “almost guarantee” that would be the case, Burress recalled.

Now, Burress said, “he’s not even sure would vote for him let alone work for him if he picked a pro-abortion running mate.”

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so frequently....THOU SHALL NOT LIE

Thou shall not steal,

Murder,

Disparage others good name,

etc....

Thats not the kind of leader we can believe in....

When talking about a potential VP earlier, the interviewer mentioned someone who wasn't a rabid anti-abortion reactionary...

McCain directly stated that he could not be comfortable running with someone who supported abortion rights.

I don't remember the news agency or the prospective VP, but I definitely remember McCain taking that position, which is the exact opposite of what he's saying now.

It looks like he's getting yet another free pass on a 180 in policy, while Obama gets interrogated about changing positions whenever the tonal quality of his farts changes.

And, no matter what McCain *says* now, that's just to pretend to be a moderate. His VP selection will be a hard-line anti-abortion wingnut. He's already sold his soul on that issue, or Robertson and Dobson wouldn't be holding up his political jockstrap.

If the fundie crazies can't even count on the Republicans to ban abortion, they'll stay home or vote for the Constitution Party.

McCain was at Villanova University in the Philadelphia area, joining MSNBC's Chris Matthews for an interview session in front of a student crowd when the following exchange occurred:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your Republican Party. You've been a maverick, and a lot of people like you because of that. I want to ask you how much of a maverick you are. Would you put a person on the ticket with you, like the former governor of this state who is very popular, Tom Ridge, even though he may disagree on the issue of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights? .... Would that stop him?

MCCAIN: I don't know if it would stop him, but it would be difficult. I just want to say that Tom Ridge is one of the great Americans. He served in the Vietnam War. He served in Congress. He served as a great governor of this state. I am proud to call him my friend.

MATTHEWS: Why that one issue? Why is it that one litmus test issue?

MCCAIN: I'm not saying that would be necessarily, but I am saying ... the respect and cherishing of the right of the unborn is one of the fundamental principles of my party. And it's a ... deeply held belief of mine. But I just want to say, again, the admiration and respect and affection that I have for Tom Ridge -- he and I came to the Congress together many years ago. And I can't tell you how much I admire him.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/john-mccain-to.html