McCain is NO populist. He is really a Bushie.

Just wait untill he says he is a Democrate, and Obama is a Republican.

When I think of McCain I see two flip flops tapping each other. Can anyone count how many times he has changed his positions on issuses or how many gaffes he has made? The GOP should have thrown it's support behind Mitt Romney, he would have been a better match against Obama.

What do you expect from someone who said he is a liberal Republican before correcting himself? This happened in a town hall meeting this year. In his head, he's a liberal Republican and to the outside world he portrays himself as a Conservative Republican. What a joke!!!!

McCain is quickly proving that he's just George Bush with a better story and a less annoying laugh.

I will vote for a republican and populist rather than a socialist, marxist, communist, racist that Obama is. Obama certainly is not a moderate democrat. Mostly, he is just a liar.

"John McCain is a populist. He believes in free markets; he believes in limited government"....pallleeeaaasssee

McCain believes in whatever his audience wants, plain and simple. The man's a sandal or I think republicans call him a flip-flop/.

If McCain had stuck to his moderate roots, catered to the middle-of-the-road voter by promising a moderate approach to the future in policy, appointments and ideology, he'd probably win. I don't know why he thought he had to appeal to the conservative right (I mean, who ELSE are the right-wing-nuts going to vote for?) when the entire country is looking for a shift away from Bush's ultraconservative policies.

But he didn't, he won't and in that, he lost most of the middle-of-the-road voters (like me) who, while not thrilled about Obama's leftist ideology, know it's definitely NOT going to be the same as Bush's BS, which seems to be what McCain, in most part, is pushing.

Kinda sad. I was in favor of McCain in 2000.

Oretega has got it right.....

McCain has flipped on:
Torture
Bush tax cuts for the rich
Evangelical right wing
Drilling off the coasts and ANWR
Windfall profits tax

McCain says whatever his audience wants to here.

Sure he's a populist.

In political terms that means he says what he thinks peple want to hear.

That's a waffler.
That's a hypocrite.
That's an unprincipled liar.

But it's not Presidential.

And neither is McCain.

Republicans have flip flopped so many times they don't know what they are.

"I'm a fiscal conservative but spend billions on an unnecessary war."

"I love God, but screw poor minority kids from CHIP."

"I believe in freedom, but let's let corporations dig into all your private records and tell you how to live your life."

"I'm pro-military, but don't give soldiers decent hospitals and health care."

McCain is like all of them, talking three ways out of his mouth and laughing all the way to the bank.

Mary, there will probably hundreds of others who feel as you and vote for McCain, but I suspect that we will have Barak Obama as our next president, and I wish him well. Following what Bush has done to us, I fear that he'll have the toughest job of any American president in history.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBAMA & McCain?

McCain is a man.
Obama is a puppet.

McCain a POPULIST? It doesn't get any stranger than that statement. Unless, of course, the new definition of "populist" is "someone who thinks he'll become popular by saying what people want to hear".

I like McCain because I can trust him more than Obama to keep this country safe. Obama is lying about his relationship with his pastor and Rezno. He also did not keep his promise about public funding and NAFTA. He is just another politician that saying and doing anything to win the election. Obama is another Bush that doesn't have any experience to handle this country.

What's wrong with populist? Do you want a phony who eats his words to fit his political agendas or propagandas? BhO has fooled enough people in the primaries, to earn himself a spot in the typical dems presidential nominee club, or the losers club.

Mr. Black has certainly changed the definition of populist. I don't think his version will ever make it to Websters. What in the world does Rove mean by "disturbing animus?" Whatever it is probably best describes the both of them.

Isn't Obama a communist? He's on more T-shirts now than Mao.

McCain = BUSH all over again..Please god say it cant be???

One thing that is admirable about McCain was his friendship with the late Mo Udall who died of complications of Parkinson's disease. Mo had a number of witticisms which were both self deprecating as well as funny and probably borrowed from other politicians. One of the best was the old one about a politician giving a speech and then concluding "Those are the principles I stand for and if you don't like them I'll change them for you." McCain has learned this well. Some may call it flip flopping while others call it being an astute politician. By the way, the idea of a progressive income tax has been endorsed by main line Protestant churches and the Catholic church for a long time and goes along with the principle that from those to whom much is given much is expected. Government serves the common good and that includes the good of the common and promotion of the general welfare means everyone, not just the folks at the Pentagon or GM or GE. McCain is not a Populist and Charley Black as the ultimate K Street fixer wouldn't know a real populist is he ever met one. The GOP has never stood for Grand Old Populism and the Grand Old Party now has a three fold identity crisis as the party of Greed Over People (cut taxes for the rich and the hell with everyone else); God's Only Party (see Dobson,Hagee, Robertson and the late Dr. Falwell) or the more traditonal monied folks from Wall Street with two last names ( Cabot Lodge, etc) , at least 5 generations at Ivy Schools commonly known as Country Club Republicans but referred to as Gold, Oil and Platinum these days with particular emphasis on oil in the Bush Cheney administration.