TIME: Has McCain Flip-Flopped On Torture?

TIME:

For a candidate who relies on his carefully cultivated image as a straight-talking, maverick, few issues are as symbolically important to John McCain as torture. No Republican has been as outspoken an opponent of prisoner mistreatment and abuse as McCain, and his own painful experience as a prisoner during the Vietnam War has granted him a unique moral authority on the issue.

So there is nothing the Democrats would like to do more than portray McCain as a rank hypocrite, someone who has sidled up to George W. Bush and flip-flopped on torture, all for political gain -- which is exactly what Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed in March. "It is shameful that George Bush and John McCain lack the courage to ban torture," Dean said in a statement. "And it is reprehensible that McCain changed his position on torture just to win an election."

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Comments

[ObamaEdwards]

McCain has sold his soul and his convictions, for a presidential endorsement from Bush & Co. As Ashcroft said about himself, Rice, Cheney, et al involved in torture elaborations on behalf of the White House: History may judge this one harshly.

[fignozzle]

McCain DOES change pretty much EVERYTHING that he EVER believed in to become OUR republican "candidate".

[fignozzle]

the "image" is DEAD.
he is a FLOPPIN" republican.

[MAX1]

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Johnny McTORTURE...

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[fourjays30]

I don't know where this writer was when this was all being debated a couple of years ago but if you read the article he is implying that Mcain didn't flip flop. If I remember correctly he pretty much gave the admin. what they wanted and only won concession on a few small points. In fact let's bring out all of the points he has flipped on in order to when the repug nomination. He has flipped on his viewon torture. He has flipped on his view on imigration. He has flipped on his view of the confederate flag being allowed to fly. Please add more as you think of them. The only thing he has not flipped on is his support for war and more war. He has no view on how to fix the economy except the same he has on the support for the war which is stay the course. But what is astonshing is how the press gives him a free pass and how they gush all over him.