John McCain has veered to the right for his primary campaign

[steven johnson]

John has become a born-again Tea Bagger. Hallelujah!

McCain's 30 year history of flip flopping is so well documented. But voters have a short memory. And Republicans are like gold fish with a short term memory span of 10 minutes and no long term memory. Too stupid to live, too stupid to die.

http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/415093_joel08.html?source=mypi
http://crooksandliars.com/2008/06/16/mccain-sets-a-new-record-10-flip-flops-in-two-weeks#comment-642275
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/415093_joel08.html?source=rss
http://www.alternet.org/election08/90956/?page=entire

Now, Mr. Hayworth, a former Republican congressman, is preparing to expand his political appetite for Mr. McCain by formally announcing next week what everyone in this state has known for months: his challenge to the senator in the Republican primary in August.

Yet Mr. McCain now finds himself jammed, moving starkly — and often awkwardly — to the right, apparently in an effort to gain favor among the same voters whom Mr. Hayworth, a consistent voice for the far right, could pull toward him like taffy come summer.

Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted from his earlier position that the Guantánamo Bay detention facility should be closed, offered only a muted response to the Supreme Court’s decision undoing campaign finance laws and backed down from statements that gays in the military would be O.K. by him if the military brass were on board.

Mr. McCain has been long vexed by the more right-leaning corners of the Republican Party, especially the ones here at home, who are forever straw-polling their way toward his (fictional) downfall. His support for immigration policy overhaul, campaign finance restrictions and his past opposition to the Bush administration tax cuts and the Federal Marriage Amendment all contributed to his problems here.

From Right of Radio Dial, a Challenge to McCain

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. I forgot that he was a senator

[secondwind]

2. he's toast...and it's too bad, because his replacement is a rabid right-wing nutjob.

[yourout]

4. Rabid is an understatement.

Evil might be closer.

[polpilot]

5. Not to worry. Palin's coming to the rescue FOR McCain. He's O.K.

[yourout]

3. Our Dems tend to do the same in reverse...Primary to the left, General to the middle, and

govern slightly to the right.