McCain On Extremists Taking Over Both Parties in 2002

John McCain from his October 2002 book tour for "Worth the Fighting For" as shown on C-SPAN taking a call from someone asking if abortion is the issue driving a wedge between the two parties, and McCain responding by saying the extremes on each side have too much influence over both parties and when the extremes take over with negative campaiging and voters who are turned off by that drop out then the extremes take over the political machinery in this country and we're in trouble. I think McCain has chosen to forget that during his recent Presidential bid and is happy to have them take over if it means he wins and that is very apparent by his pick of Palin who is an extremist for his veep choice.

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[rooley]

So Falwell is a nut but Hagee is ok with him? Sorry, McCain, but you are full of shit.

[13otany13ay]

He isnt answering the question. The woman on the phone asks about christian viewpoints taking over the republican party on issues as abortion and others (gay marriage?).

McCain evades to answer by picking some statements of republicans that he rejects, while not getting specific about his own viewpoints on secularization. Instead he talks about "extremism", not his view on the christian agenda.

[BlahBlahBlahzay]

guess i thought he was owning second place.

[lrn2wlk4life]

you mean "you're second", not "your second"

[InReasonWeTrust]

McCain has done a back flip on fundamentalists this entire year, from the Falwell-Hagee flop to his elevation of an extreme fundamentalist choice of VP. He should have gone with Tom Ridge, but he still buys into the Reaganesque idea that the religious right is a "must have".

If he was a true maverick, he would have set a true new course for his party. Instead, he sets it back to 1984.

[noracism11]

wow he has completly changed!!

[RyMooval]

He seems like an entirely different man! I didn't realize he was ever lucid or vaguely interesting. I thought folks who said he was once sort of all right were just being respectful or sympathetic because of his mutant, diseased appearance, his ugly agedness, or the pathetic war-victim thing (boo-hoo). He's now like an evil twin of this guy--who constructs a cogent argument that isn't a puke of uptight talking points. He really completely sold out at some time around 8 years ago, didn't he?

[BlahBlahBlahzay]

I got you back on that thumbs up. Thanks. I appreciate you making light of it.

[BlahBlahBlahzay]

First to tell you that your second penis breath!

[83rockets]

thumbs up for firsting.. it's fun and ppl should do it more often!!!