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12 Sep 2008 05:01 pm
So Long, Maverick
From Ambinder's and Green's article on the campaign:
The truth is that, as the country begins a slow migration leftward, McCain now hews more closely to a rightward partisan line than at any point since his career began.
In campaign style: McCain and his staff have developed the reflexive
contempt for the national political press corps that’s in the DNA of
regular Republicans. In tone and policy: In 2002, McCain opposed a
permanent repeal of the estate tax. Now he supports an almost complete
repeal and calls it “one of the most unfair tax laws on the books.” His
speeches are studded with conventional Republican policy talking
points. There are remnants of apostasy, but not on the economy or Iraq,
the two most important issues facing the country. Good luck finding an
important McCain economic policy that could not have been devised and
proposed by the Bush administration. McCain’s support for the surge,
which was mavericky at the time, has transmogrified into support for an
even longer war.
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