Has McCain Sold His Soul to the Right?
This is from a post by Ariana Huffington at The Huffington Post
Has there ever been a more repugnant example of political pandering than John McCain’s decision to vote against a bill banning waterboarding, putting hoods on prisoners, forcing them to perform sex acts, subjecting them to mock executions, or depriving them of food, water, and medical treatment?
That’s right, John McCain, the former POW who has long been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s disturbing embrace of extreme interrogation techniques.
But that was before his desperate attempt to win over the lunatic fringe that is running the Grand Old Party.
Earlier this week, I showed how outdated the image of McCain as an independent-thinking maverick had become — and called on the media and independent voters to snap out of their 2000 reverie and see the 2008 McCain for what he has turned into: a Rove-embracing Bush clone, willing to jettison his principles in his hunger for the presidency.
Comment from Jeromy
Time: May 9, 2008, 11:30 pm
McCain was once a strong Maverick. Now he does what he is told. Luckily for us, the body of McCain will die soon too. The soul past last year. I hate when the soul goes first.