The "straight-talk" express has derailed:
What are his convictions? What are the principles that he will stand firm on and not waiver? I have no idea, do you?
It really put this into perspective:
When a member of the audience said to him, "You've been sucking up to the religious right" -- an allusion to McCain's ardent courtship of conservative Christian leaders, including a group he met privately with in Seattle Friday -- the presidential hopeful laughed and replied, "I'll probably get into trouble, but what's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"Can the religous right really trust this man?
McCain said he spoke to several thousand Starbucks employees in Redmond that morning, and "I didn't see much of the religious right in that group," most of whom he said were in their 20s and should be encouraged to take part in the political process.
Later, replying to a reporter's question, he noted that Focus on the Family founder James Dobson recently said he prays that McCain fails to win the presidential nomination. At the time, however, McCain said he hoped to patch things up with Dobson.
BTW, how did he know there weren't that any religious right in the room? Do they wear "I heart Falwell" t-shirts? Have "religious right" tattooed across their forehead? Have blue-dyed helmet hair?
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