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The dreaded “flip-flop” is, according to the GOP, the latest cardinal sin for someone seeking national office.
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Only 40+ itemized flip-fops ... a few of the most hypocritica ones :

* McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.


* McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)


* 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 supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.


* McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.


* 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.”


* 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 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 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 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 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.


* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.


[with links]
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15924.html

update thank to NamelessGenXer .....
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops


DailyKos ... McCain's Resume of Flip Flops ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/20/82420/9274?new=true

amazing....all of those above should be talked about on the MSM all the time...
Thanks for the reminders....

I just hope each speaker at the convention brings up 5-6 each !