Liz Cheney: On ?The Really Important Issues,? McCain Is ?Advocating? The Same Policies As Bush And My Dad
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 24th, 2008 4:35 am by HL
Liz Cheney: On ?The Really Important Issues,? McCain Is ?Advocating? The Same Policies As Bush And My Dad
In a speech earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to bat down the idea that he is “running for President Bush’s third term” by calling it a “false” notion. “I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration” on Iraq, McCain claimed. But conservatives continue to undermine his efforts by acknowledging that McCain’s policy proposals mirror […]
In a speech earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to bat down the idea that he is “running for President Bush’s third term” by calling it a “false” notion. “I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration” on Iraq, McCain claimed.
But conservatives continue to undermine his efforts by acknowledging that McCain’s policy proposals mirror the policies of the Bush administration.
On MSNBC today, Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney, a former State Department official who is also the daughter of Vice President Cheney, about McCain’s efforts to separate himself from Bush. “It’s not surprising to see the distancing going on,” replied Cheney. But, she added, “on the really important issues” McCain is advocating for policies that Bush and Cheney supporters “believe are the right ones”:
CHENEY: At the same time, I think on the really important issues that face the country, on issues like the war on terror and the economy, Senator McCain in fact is advocating those policies that those of us who supported President Bush and the Vice President believe are the right ones for this nation.
Watch it:
Cheney’s comments reflect how McCain himself has described his ideological relationship to the Bush administration. Though they have disagreed on select issues, McCain told Tim Russert in 2005 that he is “totally in agreement” with Bush “on the transcendent issues, the most important issues“:
RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. I–the fact is that I’m different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.
As for Liz’s dad, McCain may be critical of him now, but in 2006 he said that he would consider having Cheney serve in his administration because they “have the same strengths.”
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