McCain was FOR Bush's agenda before he was against it (now that he's running for president)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_el_pr/mccain2008

What say we spread this one QUICKLY while it's fresh.


By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_el_pr/mccain2...



WASHINGTON - On the heels of devastating GOP losses, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) called on the Republican Party to return to its common-sense conservatism — and implicitly cast himself as the one who can lead the party's rebirth.

"We lost our principles and our majority. And there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles first," the Arizona Republican said Thursday in the first of two speeches that could set the tone for a potential presidential campaign.

On the same day he launched a presidential exploratory committee, McCain said voters felt that Republicans valued their incumbency over their beliefs on such conservative standards as limited and efficient government — and he urged a return to those tenets.

"Americans had elected us to change government, and they rejected us because they believed government had changed us," the four-term senator said. "We must spend the next two years reacquainting the public and ourselves with the reason we came to office in the first place: to serve a cause greater than our self-interest."

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Give him some time. Maybe he will be for Bush's agenda again in a year or so...if enough polls support this.
At the moment, one can't really be sure. He's like a very volatile stock ;).

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4. heh...he's lost SOME of his charm with a few in the media. I hope they don't

regress back into their fawning posture with him.

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2. Well, McCain got it sort of right

"they rejected us because they believed government had changed us"

Repubs were rejected b/c THEY STOPPED SERVING THE PEOPLE and republicans DID EVERYTHING to SERVE THEMSELVES. "Doing it for the power & MONEY" is called 'whoring'.

"We, the People" got fed up with your WHORING! And we will long-remember who you all were/are.

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Retiring quietly would probably be good advice to take, Mr. McCain, et al.

Peace,
M_Y_H

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3. This is all part of McCain's faux humility act.

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