That’s the 2008 version of 2004’s Flip-Flopper. In 2006, prior to the midterm elections, John McCain wagged his finger at all the seemingly fair-weather republicans (hah) for trying to distance themselves from Bush. He told us that he wasn’t going to be running for president even though many people on both sides thought he would be a good idea (at the time). He scolded his republican allies for priding themselves on how they differ from George Bush and proceeded to tell us to stand by our president. Because he is our president.
Does anyone besides me remember this?
Anyways, back when people wanted him to run and he didn’t want to run, he wagged his finger at all the naughty republicans and all of us democrats for abandoning Bush. Well, now that he’s the front running republican, I wonder if people will remember such insults. Are you going to let it slide that he told us to stand behind Bush simply because he is our president? I’m not going to respect anyone who says to follow authority simply because it is authority.
Along those lines, check out this buried gem by Guiliani:
“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
Thank God Rudy dropped out, eh? What a nutter disguised as a perfectly rational human being.
Ha! The quote sounds like something out of 1984.
Re: McCain…unfortunately, I don’t know if his past support of Bush will hurt him; my Republican friends believe the same thing about supporting a president. It’s not patriotic to disagree, or something (and these are the people who so hate Communism?!).
McCain is not going to get the all-important Evengelical vote, though, because he’s too liberal. . .between that, and Ron Paul’s decision not to run 3rd Party, it looks like I won’t be moving just yet.