John McCain, June 3, 2008, in his notorious Green Backdrop speech in Louisiana:
You will hear from my opponent's campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I'm running for President Bush's third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it's so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country.
John McCain, June 15, 2005, Meet the Press (h/t Blue Texan):
MR. RUSSERT: And what people point to -- and this is an article in your hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, "At Odds With Bush. John McCain repeatedly has taken maverick positions that have put him at odds with President Bush's administration" . . . . 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. So have we had some disagreements on some issues, the bulk -- particularly domestic issues? Yes. But I will argue my conservative record voting with anyone's, and I will also submit that my support for President Bush has been active and very impassioned on issues that are important to the American people.
That pretty much speaks for itself, and I hope the Obama campaign uses it. Last week, McCain essentially called Obama a liar for suggesting that McCain's election would bring about George Bush's third term, but three years ago, McCain himself proudly declared that "on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, [he's] been totally in agreement and support of President Bush." The 2005 McCain was right.
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