On Sep 12, 4:31*pm, Charlie Self wrote:
On Sep 11, 11:48*pm, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:

"todd" wrote:
So which is it? *Has McCain said nothing at all as you originally
asserted or has he said something, but you just don't agree with it?

So far all I see is a continuation of the last 8 years and think it is
pretty well documented how these ideas have worked.

It is stuff straight out of G Bush's mouth.

McCain indicates he wants to change things.

I'm all for that, I'm waiting for McCain to tell me how he is
different than Bush.

Lew

He's 9% different. He is 91% the same. At least that's how he's voted
in the past 7-1/2 years.

I'd be happy to have the John McCain who ran in 2000.

I tend to think that his positions since have been:

1) Loyalty to the President who won the election and
to the direction his party has taken.

2) Deference to the decisions made by the commander-
in-chief during wartime.

3) Positioning himself to gain the support of the voters
who defeated him in favor of Bush in 2000.
(e.g. If you can't beat them, join them.)

So I don't know if he took the positions he did in
2000 to gain support of that part of the Republican
Party that could be swayed away from Bush, or if
those positions reflected his true principles and
he is only pandering now or, and this I consider to
be most likely he, like most politicians, has always
pandered and has no genuine loyalty to any, or
at most only a preciously small set, of principles.

It is all too easy to believe that a person who tells
me what I want to hear, actually believes it himself.

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