The Tucson Star has the scoop:
On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked [John] McCain why he supported [Arizona Proposition 107], saying it “actually denied any government benefits to civil unions or domestic partnerships. Are you against civil unions for gay couples?”
First McCain said: “No, I’m not.”
“I think that initiative did allow for people to join in legal agreements such as power of attorney and others,” he said. “I think that there was a difference of opinion on the interpretation of that constitutional amendment in Arizona.”
“So you’re for civil unions?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“No,” he said. “I do not believe gay marriage should be legal. I do not believe gay marriage should be legal,” he repeated. “But I do believe that people ought to be able to enter into contracts, exchange powers of attorney, other ways that people have relationships can enter into.”
Later, he came back: “I just want to point out again: I believe that gay marriage should not be legal. OK?”
It looks like Mitt Romney might have lil ole McCain running scared.
You know that old Joni Mitchell song, ‘Both sides now?’
Here is the ‘Jon McCain version’, “Both sides howdy”
‘Once Iraq was popular, I banged the war drums, loud all day!
Approval was in the stratosphere, I’ve looked at Iraq that way,
But now guerillas block the sun, the bad news gets to everyone,
So many things I would have done, but polls got in the way!
I’ve looked at Iraq from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow, it’s those illusions I still spin, I really don’t know Iraq at all.
I used to know to avoid, ‘gay’, And what to do and what to say,
But the 107 ‘fairy tale’ went down,
I’ll look at ‘gay’ ‘nother way,
Civil unions I’ll say I did support,
as a last resort,
to change that report,
Don’t give myself away,
I’ve been on ‘civil uions’ on both sides now,
For and against, with both sides,
I’ts a fine illusion I put forth,
I really don’t know gay issues, at all.
I used to talk just like a moderate, But I couldn’t win a primary,
So I changed my tune, I changed my song,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds.
That’s what I’m about today,
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
loony right wing votes,
I’ve looked at running from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow,
It’s political illusions I cling to,
I really don’t know voters, at all.
I think McCain needs to change the “Straight Talk Express” to “The Titanic”.
Yes Mr. Falwell! What ever you say, Mr. Falwell! May I lick your boot Mr. Falwell!
What a tool!
This should end- without qualm or question the McCain/Goldwater comparisons, however weak they were to begin with (Right. If McCain’s a Maverick, I am the Pope).
Oh wait, the one that never was: As I’ve only been saying for the past 20 years!
Not even in the same league. No,sport.
1) Rudolph Giuliani – 64.2.
2) Sen. Barack Obama 58.8
3) Sen. John McCain 57.7
4) Condoleezza Rice – 56.1
5) Bill Clinton – 55.8
6) Sen. Joseph Lieberman – 52.7
Quinnipiac University “Thermometer Poll”.. I will vote for Rudy.
Quinnipiac? How did they do this cycle?
Rudy IS NOT presidential material. I like him as much as the next guy. But POTUS is out of his league big time.
Rudy is pro-choice and for gun control. The GOP primaries are dominated by anti-abortion conservatives, and the NRA is also a strong influence within the GOP. Maybe some people might ‘like’ Rudy, but I suspect that not many of them are Republican primary voters.
As a candidate for Congress I have been asked the same question and had no problem with the answer;as a young man told me at an ACLU meeting at the Viscount Hotel in Tucson about his brother being Gay and his fear of the Government passing the Do Not Ask; Do Not Tell ; law as is in the Military; my answer was and still is;
Iam for Civil Unions as a Federal matter and possible law; but Gay Marriage is a State issue and just as you go to the State for a Marriage License currently why change the Federal Law to make you go to a Federal Court?
Marriage is between two people who care for each other very much, a man and a man;a woman and a woman or a man and a women, Iam against a Constitutional Amendment that changes that!
McCain is worthless..
Gates Says We’re Not Winning