What A Time It Was

Stephen Moore wrote about John McCain back in the fall of 2005:

[McCain] grandstanded against the Bush capital-gains and dividend tax cuts and even co-sponsored an amendment with Tom Daschle to scuttle the reduction in the highest income-tax rates. Why? “I just thought it was too tilted to the wealthy and I still do. I want to cut the taxes on the middle class.” Even when I confront him with emphatic evidence that those tax cuts have been an economic triumph and have increased revenues, he is unrepentant and defends his “no” vote by falling back on class-warfare type thinking: “We have a wealth gap in this country, and that worries me.”

I find it remarkable how little attention has focused on the fact that the self-styled man of principle in this race has held diametrically opposed views on taxes, growth, and equality within a period of just a few years.