John McCain Flip Flops on No New Tax Pledge

  This is what you deserve if you voted for John McCain in the primary. I hope you  are happy. John McCain has flip flopped on his promise not to raise taxes, or at least softened his opposition. Let’s not forget that he did vote against the Bush tax cuts-twice.

“There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”

 This is a position in stark contrast to his previous position:

“Sen. Obama will raise your taxes,” McCain said. “I won’t.”

In a March 16 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, McCain said he would cut taxes where possible, and not raise them.

“Do you mean none?” Hannity asked.

“None,” McCain replied.

 So much for that promise. John McCAin is no conservative. He is now saying that the possibility of a payroll tax increase is something that is “on the table.” This, along with amnesty for illegals, now appears to be an issue that McCain and President Obama agree on. President Obama has been trying to link McCain to President Bush, the “third Bush term” bumper stickers are already starting to appear. Yet it is President Obama who John McCain is most like.

 I would like to think this is a surprise, but it isn’t. John McCain isn’t trusted by conservatives and this is another example of why. Between amnesty, McCain/Feingold, the gang of 14, his stance on the issue of global warming, and now this there is no conservative voter in the country who can honestly vote for John McCain on the basis of the issues. The only conservatives who vote for John McCain are people who are blindly towing the party line. If you think that John McCain is the “better of two evils”, don’t forget, ever, that John McCain spit on conservatives for the last eight years, that his how he made a name for himself. He is no conservative and he does not deserve ANY votes from conservatives.

 This is the best that the Republican party could offer? This is who the Republican party nominated as their candidate? How did we ever let this happen? This man is the reincarnation of Bob Dole, the horrible Republican candidate from years gone by, and he will suffer the same fate.

 John McCain is being linked to President Bush in an effort to bring him down, he is like President Bush alright. But he is more like President George H.W. Bush, you remember it vividly don’t you, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”