Posted by
RightTeacher on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:38:33 AM
Robert Novak writes of McCain telling us that he never said that Alito was too conservative for the supreme court. In this, he seems to evoke Reagan in ways no one seems to mention. "I cannot recall" is the phrase that comes to mind.
So he wants to reassure us on Alito. He wants to reasure us on tax cuts. He wants to reassure us on immigration enforcement. These are not flip-flops, to be sure. But they are flips in greater degree designed to capture the Republican nomination by placating critics than Romney's alleged flips. At least Romney's flips, such has his pro-life stance, occured while he was governor and he spent his term as governor working on the basis of the new stance.
McCain is a flipper. Assurances at this point seem week and forced. But if it was possible to rely on this assurances, then never mind Alito. I want McCain to tell us he would nominate another
Scalia.