McCain Calls For “Common Sense” Conservatism
Hmm…
WASHINGTON - On the heels of devastating GOP losses, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) called on the Republican Party to return to its common-sense conservatism — and implicitly cast himself as the one who can lead the party’s rebirth.
“We lost our principles and our majority. And there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles first,” the Arizona Republican said Thursday in the first of two speeches that could set the tone for a potential presidential campaign.
I might take that sort of talk about conservative principles more seriously were it not coming from the mouth of a man who co-wrote and co-sponsored one of the most eggregious limitations on free political speech ever passed in this country.
I’m sorry, but I’m not willing to listen to any talk from John McCain about “conservative principles” until he apologizes for campaign finance reform.
