Rich Lowry seems to think the flip-flopping meme alone won't do the trick: "If it [the McCain campaign] can't win running against him merely as a flip-flopper, it has to be an element of the case against him—that he can't be trusted as both a naked opportunist who will say anything to win and as a vacillator not ready for the responsibilities of the office."
Meanwhile, Larry Kudlow is ecstatic that McCain seems to be flip-flopping: "Increasingly McCain is shifting his positions towards the supply-side: across-the-board tax cuts, keeping the Bush tax rates on investment, slashing the corporate tax rate, doubling the child deduction for family dependents, cutting pork-barrel spending, and producing more energy. On the drill, drill, drill energy front, McCain argued in favor of producing more oil and gas, and he said this would send a message to the market that would result in lower prices. He argued for nuclear power, clean coal, and oil shale. And he noted for the first time that expanded energy production would be a strong job-creator. This is so important in terms of an economic fix."
And K-Lo is again pushing the idea of Bill Bennett as VP. A McCain-Bennett ticket would have at least one advantage: efficiency. They could share the same casino host at Bellagio.
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