Friday, June 02, 2006

2 faced Senator John Mccain ?

2 faced Senator John Mccain ?


The Two Sides of McCain

Will the Moderate Senator Lose his Soul to Extremists
to Become President?

Next month, the Senate will act out what has become
a favorite Republican ritual in election years by
calling up a constitutional amendment to prohibit
the marriage
homosexual couples. In theory, the objective of this
splashy spectacle is to pass the Federal Marriage
Amendment
with the required two-thirds majority and send this
obnoxious legislation forward toward full ratification by Congress and the states. But since that is impossible, why would the Senate leadership waste everyone's time?

If nothing else, the marriage amendment provides a
test for the most politically ambitious Republican
senators notably Majority Leader Bill Frist, who promised
evangelical conservatives last winter that he would
bring the amendment to a vote before the summer recess,
and
Senator John McCain, whose principled opposition to the amendment is now an obstacle to any reconciliation with the religious right.
For McCain, the issue of the marriage amendment has
risen again at a particularly inconvenient moment.
As he moves toward a presidential campaign in 2008,
his dilemma is whether to pander to the right, and
thus destroy his centrist "maverick" image, or uphold
principle and damage his prospects in the Republican
primaries.

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http://www.thebulletin.com/archives/2006/may/bullpen0526.htm

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