It’s a delicate dance, and John McCain is ‘liable to break a hip’
Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category.
Long-time readers know that I’ve been emphasizing John McCain’s dozens of major policy flip-flops for months now, hoping that this would a) catch on as a campaign issue; and b) undermine McCain’s unearned reputation for principled stands on the issues.
I’m beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, the criticism is taking root. Consider yesterday’s “Cafferty File” on CNN:
For those who can’t watch clips online, Jack Cafferty noted some of McCain more glaring recent reversals, adding, “If John McCain doesn’t stop changing his position on the issues, he threatens to make John Kerry look like an amateur. In order for McCain to win in November, he has to appeal to both the traditional Republican base and to Independents. Dana Milbank, in The Washington Post says that’s a delicate dance. And if McCain’s not careful, ‘he’s liable to break a hip.’ Of course, any doctor will tell you a broken hip can be very difficult to recover from.”
The past couple of weeks have been especially difficult when it comes to McCain flip-flops.
* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.
* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.
* McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.
* McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)
Wait, I’m not done with the last two weeks yet….
* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.
* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.
* 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.”
* McCain said he would “not impose a litmus test on any nominee.” He used to promise the opposite.
And these come after these other reversals from April and May:
* McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration’s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.
* McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.
* McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.
* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.
* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.
* He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.
* McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.
* He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.
* McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.
And these are the flip-flops I’ve noticed earlier:
* McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a “‘read my lips’ candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?” referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 pledge. “No new taxes,” McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, “I’m not making a ‘read my lips’ statement, in that I will not raise taxes.”
* McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
* McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.
* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
* McCain has changed his economic worldview on multiple occasions.
* McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions.
* McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.
* McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off than they were before Bush took office.
* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
* McCain believes his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee was both a good and bad idea.
* McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be “rewarded” for acting “irresponsibly.” His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.
* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. Now he’s against it.
* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving “feedback” on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
* McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.”
* McCain said 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.”
* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.
* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks.
* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.
* On a related note, he said 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were “too tilted to the wealthy.” By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and insisted he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.
* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money” to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.
* McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he “would taint the image of the ‘Straight Talk Express.'” Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
Confronted with the inconsistencies in McCain’s record in March, the senator’s aides told the New York Times that the senator “has evolved rather than switched positions in his 25-year career.” That’s a perfectly sensible spin — when a politician holds one position, and then, for apparently political reasons, decides to embrace the polar opposite position, it’s only natural for his or her aides to say the politician’s position has “evolved.”
But in McCain’s case, the spin is wholly unfulfilling. First, McCain sells himself as a pol who never sways with the wind, and whose willingness to be consistent in the face of pressure is proof of his character. Second, Republicans have spent the last four years or so making policy reversals the single most serious political crime in presidential politics. The dreaded “flip-flop” is, according to the GOP, the latest cardinal sin for someone seeking national office.
And if we’re playing by Republican rules, McCain’s “evolutions” should be a fairly serious problem. I’m beginning to think they might be.
So, should Dems start showing up at McCain’s rallies wearing flip-flops and putting purple heart band-aids on? Not that this would happen, but…
And if we’re playing by Republican rules, McCain’s “evolutions” should be a fairly serious problem…
Gaia help me, those “evolutions” can be measured in “revolutions per minute” – next you’ll see the Weather Channel reporting high, gusty winds from all the spinning.
No, by Republican rules you just throw a hissy-fit that Jack Cafferty made a crack about McCain’s age with that “break a hip” jab. You ignore the whole “flip-flop” thing because that only matters when a Democrat does it. (when in doubt, fall back on 21st century politics 101 – IOKIYAR).
…you just throw a hissy-fit that Jack Cafferty made a crack about McCain’s age with that “break a hip” jab… -NonyNony
That was Dana Milbank.
And if McCain’s not careful, ‘he’s liable to break a hip.’ Of course, any doctor will tell you a broken hip can be very difficult to recover from.”
Obama is going to be a hip replacement for the current president.
McCain has accused McCain of flip-flopping. He’s old and confused, instead of a campaign he thinks he’s in a prequel.
Jack Cafferty often embarrasses Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room with his outbursts, particularly on Bush and the march to war, where he doesn’t toe the politically correct media line.
But the whole crew – Wolf, Jack, Jeffrey Toobin and Gloria Borgia all flubbed the test royally yesterday when discussing the drill, drill, drill insanity. Each muddled the issue, and Jack even said he didn’t know if it would do any good or not. This issue, when looked at objectively, is so one-sided it is laughable, but tragically, it appears the media is going to play it out as he said/she said political bickering.
Steve, you should create a website for this list! Some viral video around it, and we should be set for November 🙂
Oops, Gloria Borger. I always do that. And I can’t remember if it might have been Candy Crowley, anyway. Whatever. They’re not going to take a principled stand on the drill, drill, drill issue. So McCain not only gets away with that flip-flop, as usual, he doesn’t get scolded for taking the wrong and Bush side of every issue.
This is impressive list, but it’s so long my eyes glazed over and I skipped reading most of what was after the jump. That’s ok for this blog, but the Dems need to pick a few of the most salient, iron-clad flip-flops and bash McCain’s brains in with them over and over again.
In 2004 it was really only one sound-bite that turned Kerry into a flip-flopper. Unfortunately he handed them that sound-bite on a silver platter. God… Kerry! What an awful candidate. The less he speaks this year, the better.
That’s 48 flip-flops, but who’s counting?
For the record, I think we should avoid ageism like jokes about hip breakage, which is really not funny at all. Ask anyone who’s had it happen to them or a loved one.
Asked if he flip-flopped on any issue Sen McCain replied:
“It’s OK If You Are Republican. Now, you kids get off my lawn!”
Racer X – That was planned, McCain said he wanted one for every state.
This is impressive list, but it’s so long my eyes glazed over and I skipped reading most of what was after the jump. That’s ok for this blog, but the Dems need to pick a few of the most salient, iron-clad flip-flops and bash McCain’s brains in with them over and over again.
The thing is, almost all of McCain’s flip-flops are on tape: YouTube has dozens of them.
When it comes to attack ads this fall, it will be easy to create 5-10 ads (and Obama will have the money to broadcast them) with different examples of McCain’s flips and flops using the same tag line.
Actually, I’m stunned and amazed at what McCain has managed to do: he’s out flip-flopped Romney, and I though that was impossible.
I have a better ageism joke. It came to me watching Fred Thompson trying to inject his youthful energy on Stephanopolous show last Sunday.
McCain: “Barack Obama is so young and inexperienced, he hasn’t even traded in his first wife yet!”
Steve,
Great list, but would you be able to put it somewhere that can be easliy accessed form the front page (to echo Jake E). It seems like a very useful resource to have available at a moments notice.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
…you just throw a hissy-fit that Jack Cafferty made a crack about McCain’s age with that “break a hip” jab… -NonyNony
That was Dana Milbank. – doubtful
Me brain stupid. No read so good.
For some reason that paragraph just blended together for me – thanks for the correction. It makes more sense coming from Milbank than Cafferty anyway.
Point stands though – GOPers will ignore the flipping and the flopping and will concentrate their ire on “Democrats” making cracks about McCain’s age. (All journalists/tv pundits are “Democrats” when they criticize Republicans, as far as I can tell.)
That’s a fantastic list. Permanently bookmarked now.
Break a hip, now that is unsubtle ageism.
And sorry to offend, but it’s damn funny in this context.
A fantastic list — how can it be fit onto a palm card? From my reading, the single issue on which McCain is consistent is that he’s unwaveringly hostile to women (personally, including his wives) and politically — women’s health, women’s rights, women’s pay, women’s issues. He has reportedly voted against family planning programs that included money for mammograms, for example. Makes you wonder…. (among other things, what’s really driving those who claim to be Clinton supporters but will vote for him?)
No, it isn’t funny in any context. It is ugly.
Hip replacement in women is related to decreased bone density due to reduced estrogen levels. In men, it is related to obesity, prior injury, and generalizaed osteoarthritis and only weakly related to physical activity such as flip-flopping or dancing.
Would you make jokes like this about cancer or heart attack? Maybe you would.
I was dismayed by the ugliness of the primary and now I see that it is carrying on into the general election. You talk about Laura Bush showing class compared to Cindy McCain, but you wouldn’t know class if it bit you on the hip. Dems were supposed to care about women’s issues, about the elderly, about poverty and the environment. These were always core values. Now I see that they go right out the window when it comes to mocking a campaign opponent.
By the way, Laura Bush has no class. She raised a couple of useless delinquents, enabled a dry drunk to lie the American people into a war, and she has always lived high off the looting of Bushes failed enterprises and favors done to the president’s son. I wouldn’t be surprised if she publishes a tell-all about her struggle with drug addiction, after she leaves office. But you all think she’s peachy because she says one nice thing about Michelle? I said phooey and I meant phooey.
It has dawned on me thatMcCain is doing his best to solidify his base, those who fell off the turnip truck and have faullty short term memories. Unfortunately, in our society, there are quite a few.
So, should Dems start showing up at McCain’s rallies wearing flip-flops and putting purple heart band-aids on? — tom of the plains, @1
Purple flip-flops, worn on your hands and used to applaud McCain’s best bon–mots.
#22 Mary: wow, I actually agree with you. Nice post.
you wouldn’t know class if it bit you on the hip.
Whoa, Mary, what you get up to with your partner is no concern of ours. I defend your right to sink your sharp little canines into the love handles of your choice in private, but is there any need to shove it in our faces?
Excellent post. Keep on hammering the point home. Absolutely relentless this is. Good job.
I think you should set up a special category for instances where he flip-flops in the very same sentence. Here are a couple examples I’ve noticed:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/200044.php
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/McCain_muffs_description_capandtrade.html
“Break a hip”??? You’ve got to be kidding. The Evil Republican Attack Machine could never get away with the equivalent remark about Obama’s race.
I think the most telling clip of all is his 60 Minutes interview where he admits he lied about his confederate flag position because of his blinding political ambition.
I’d play that bad boy over and over and over again. HE ADMITTED HE JUST SAYS THINGS TO GET VOTES, NOT BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THEM.
how about flip flops and purple bandaid on a wilted heart and cash hanging out of his back pocket while holding a sign
Screw NEW Vets, WE got all the $.
In addition to his many flip-flops, McCain comes across as an angry old man who constantly yells at the neighborhood kids to stay out of his yard. Anger is not a presidential attribute.
I just looked up Grandpa’s flip-flop on the SC confederate flag.
“I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary. So I chose to compromise my principles.”
Now that’s a man we want running our nation, don’t we? A man who’s already admitted that he knows practically nothing about the economy, a man who can’t even get his facts straight regarding Iraq and Iran, and the “maverick” who admitted that he told the people what they wanted to hear just for the purposes of elections. Absolutely shameful and disgusting.
On June 20th, 2008 at 7:21 pm, bob said:
In addition to his many flip-flops, McCain comes across as an angry old man who constantly yells at the neighborhood kids to stay out of his yard. Anger is not a presidential attribute.
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I agree. So how did Junior get two terms in the WH, when he’s a 60 year old man who STILL, literally, gives the middle finger to people he doesn’t like? What kind of grown-up is that?
“The man spins more than Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist.'”
Now THAT is FUNNY!!
More on the S.C. flag…
“I promised to tell the truth always about my intentions and beliefs. I fell short of that standard in South Carolina.”
“Fell short.” Yeah. That’s Repugnantcan-speak for “I lied.”
He has also flipped back and forth on supply side economics, whether or not he believes that tax cuts pay for themselves. In the 90’s he was an ardent supply sider. In 2000, he told Chait of TNR he had previously been misguided because he hadn’t paid enough attention to the issue, and no longer believed in supply-side economics. In the primaries he flipped back again, saying that he believed taxes paid for themselves.
This is a classic example of sexism. When Hilary Clinton changes her mind on an issue it’s ok because a woman has a right to do that. But when war hero, John McCain changes his mind, after reviewing new reports, everyone attacks him.
You liberals are such hypocrites.
McCain USED to like Diet Coke, now he’s a Diet Pepsi man
It is one thing to rethink a position as circumstances demand, but it is quite another to totally reverse positions that one held very recently–and almost all of them at that.
With even the most benign spin on these flip flops, a picture is emerging of someone who is either senile or deliberately pandering in order to get votes.
Either way, he is not someone this country needs as its leader.
WELL GIVEN ALL THAT>……I’M FOR MCCAIN…
……………and yet…. i am against him
TO HARRY NADS #38…
no… when Hillary changes her mind we evaluate the what and why of the change… sometimes we are okay with a reason… other times NOT…. no different with OBAMA…
When John “the bush republican” McCain changes his mind 50 times in 6 weeks WE ALSO QUESTION THAT…. i am certain we are “okay” with some of the changes—- but the number, and the size, and the blatent asskissing … sorry dude… bad comparison
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yeah right, tell, it to the Swiftboaters
you guys have no shame.
Wow. If the Dems can’t win against a flip-flopper like that, who can they beat?
I don’t get it, Mcain is a totally different person since 2001 and the media is not even talking about it. I guess you’re not a filp floop if you’re the biggest elephant in the room
I don’t think there’s anything more damning than his position on the Confederate Flag in South Carolina, where he not only flipped-flopped, but later admitted on 60 Minutes that the reason for his first (now-claimed bogus) position was “political ambition.”
How come our side doesn’t make a loop out of that and show it 24 hours a day?
You can also add to that list the Katrina flip-flop, where he said at the beginning of June that he supported “every investigation” in the Katrina fiasco. This is an admirable position, only marred slightly by the fact that he had at that point already voted twice against Katrina investigations.
Oops. And add the ‘military service as relevant to the office of presidency’ flip-flop as well:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/01/mccain-v-clark-qualifications/
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at all those Flip-Flops, wait sorry, thats not PC……willfully changed his mind to suit his current situation and/or political audience
It seems pretty clear to me that John ‘the expedient’ McCain does and says whatever it takes to futher his cause enroute to the White House. It doesn’t matter what year you search or which presidential campaign one might referrence in regard to him, there you will find John the Expedient saying whatever necessary to garner votes.
He says this election its about “who you can trust”, but how can you trust someone who admitedly LIED about his position on the confederate flag issue to persuade voters to vote for him. What kind of character does this display???
I’ll tell you what kind of character it displays, it is the same kind that lied to the American people that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and sent thousands of our youth to their deaths without batting an eye, the same kind that watched and did nothing as thousands of people in New Orleans suffered from one of the worst hurricane disasters in American history. It’s
the same kind of character that claims his political opponet has flipped-flopped on his Iraq stance, when in fact he hadn’t, while McCain has flipped-flopped on so many issues since the his first presidential bid, that he epitomizes the meaning of flip flop.
Wake up America. Do you really want this man running the country when he can’t even be honest about making a seemingly innocent statement that ‘he doesn’t know much about the economy’, and actually got mad when questioned about his own statement and denied it with some misguided self-righteous indignation. C’mon now America THINK ABOUT it, please. We cannot afford another someone who appears to be as totally inapt as the current president, can we?????????. PLEASE…….use your brains!!!!
WE DO NEED CHANGE.
The Ethics Committee had already criticized him for “questionable conduct” in the Keating Five saga. Why is anyone surprised at this guy’s state of mind?
His judgment is similar to that of a squirrel chomping away on a nut and darting back and forth between traffic in the middle of highway I95. Sooner or later some SPCA driver is going to nail him!
(Talk about breaking a hip? More like splat to me!).
Why don’t we see any of this in the main stream media? McCain is still getting a free pass! Obama clarifies, his position, or compromises on an issue, which he has always said is necessary – on occassion… McCain cries foul, calls him out on flip flopping. Then MSNB-FOX, will devote their whole morning show talking about Obama’s “flip flop” according to McCain( their trusted source). Is McCain a producer there, or maybe he owns stock.? Now if it were Fox, I would not be surprised at all, their favorite pass time is Obama bashing, 24/but Msnbc? McCain is THE KING OF FLIP FLOP! This information needs to be put out there the people have a right to know.. McCain should make a list of things he has not flipped on, because it would be a lot shorter, than the other way aroin
People in glass houses shouldn’t cast stones / but should pay taxes on it. Maybe they forgot because the own so many!
So — how do we get this information in the hands of the masses and not just progressive/left blogs? These are important facts that voters need to know. If we can’t rely on main stream media – what’s the strategy for getting in a broader audience?
Great work…..I knew this guy spent more time in the air doing back flips than a gymnast, but this is ridiculous
Anybody who votes for this nut case needs their head examined. Seriously people, this guy is about as stable as a wind mill in a typhoon. One day he’s praising Hillary, calling her a compassionate individual then the very next day he exclaims rather angrily when it was brought up in an interview, “I Did Not” say that. Either he’s, like I said a nut case or senile. Either way one would have to be a supreme idiot to vote for this silly-minded man. He will say anything convenient thus the title, ‘John the Expedient McCain’. Get it??
Great list. It was time someone pointed our McCain’s change of positions on various issues. I refuse to use the word flip flop, which the media have been using for Obama, for far less changing of positions.
The only thing I did not like about the article was the comment about breaking a hip. Please let us be respectful. Ageism is as bad as racism.
I READ A LOT OF THESE THINGS ON BLOGS BUT THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING HERE THAT HAPPENED IN 2004 THE MEDIA WILL NOT TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT MCCAIN DOES LIKE THEY DID WITH BUSH AND FOR THE MOST PART THEY ARE STILL PROTECTING HIM ORAN
Let me ask this question, which politician has never done the flip flop ? None that I know of since the 70’s since I have been watching. Either they find out facts they did not know before and flip knowing more or flip due to the polling. Someone mentioned rules, in the run for president what are the rules. And with freedom of the press, well sort of, (got to stay politically correct, ha ha) RULES, that is a joke. Now a question for you Obama supporters what does he stand for? That is other than raising taxes and so called universal health care (thats a joke, look at England and Canada that are looking for a way to get it back to the way it was). I have heard him say change, change, change but what are the changes he wants?
I am not a MaCain person and he is to liberal for me just as Bush is. I will admit I am for lower taxes and getting the Gov. out of my back pocket and almost of all aspects of my life. Stay away from my Church, Car, House and Kids and my Money. For all those Dems out there what has Gov. done right other than the military and trying to keep the roads working? Check the Constitution there is not much more that they are to do really. If you can remember those that listened in school, the Constitution is a set of rules to keep Gov. off our backs not control us, but them.
Now if everyone that reads this far will stop and think (something schools don’t teach any more) do you really want Gov. controlling your life??????
So? What you are saying is obvious to anyone following the news. Ditto on the left. But, what is so striking is the apathy exposed on the part of Democrats. You had more chances than imaginable to set impeachment motions into process.
But, what did you do? Nothing! No guts. You would have had Republicans flocking to your side to impeach that bastard. But you only whined and whimpered and stuck your tail between your legs.
So? What you are saying is obvious to anyone following the news. Ditto on the left. But, what is so striking is the apathy exposed on the part of Democrats. You had more chances than imaginable to set impeachment motions into process.
But, what did you do? Nothing! No guts. You would have had Republicans flocking to your side to impeach that bastard. But you only whined and whimpered about “Iraq” and stuck your tail between your legs. The war is not the problem, it is the blundering incompetence of George Bush that turned a remarkable victory upon the defeat of Sadam into a 7 year war and the loss of 4000 brave young Americans.
McCain is no damn good either ie: Amnesty, Free trade, and improving the economy. Imagine his gall. He went to Michigan last week to promise he would rebuild the auto industry and bring jobs back to America. For the last 8 years he has been crowing about being the free trade guy. “It’s good for America”. “The jobs are gone, they won’t be coming back” he said.
How can this fool propose to improve the economy when he 1. Advocates Amnesty for 20 to 30 million illitterate uneducated backward Mexcans. A vortex of lost jobs and income for American blacks and whites will ensue. 2. He will develop a comprehensive energy policy. Bull! 3. And as I said promote free trade. Hear thaat giant sucking sound? Perot said it 16 years ago, the sound of jobs and manufacturing fleeing the country.
If you have stayed with me this far let me ask you the $64 question. What drives innovation, research and development? The answer is simple COMPETITION. When you allow millions of poverty stricken Mexicans into the country why would you need to improve productivity? When you allow Manufacturing to leave the country and go abroad who will be doing the research and development to improve productivity and advance the competetive edge. FOREIGNERS, that’s who. What are we left with? The giant sucking sound!!!!!