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/snip
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.” /snip