News Alert! Years-Long Investigative Research Has Turned Up a Positive Fact About John McCain

 

The Washington, D.C. statue of Mao Tse-Tung, er, Martin Luther King Jr.
 

Excerpted by Nicholas Stix

“There was a time when principled conservatives, such as Sen. Jesse Helms, James J. Kilpatrick, Murray Rothbard, Paul Gottfried, and others recognized King for the dubious and possibly dangerous symbol he was. Even John McCain voted against making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday and originally stood by Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham’s decision to cancel the MLK holiday in Arizona.”

“That Martin Luther King Memorial: ‘Free at Last’—or Flash Mobs?” by Cooper Sterling, VDARE, August 29, 2011.]

McCain eventually flip-flopped, but at least he didn’t immediately jump on the MLK Express. However, in the McCain spirit of seizing moral defeat from the jaws of victory, he has apologized for once being right, and his enemies have cut him no slack, neither for his “flip,” nor his “flop.”