McCain and Senator Lieberman
Similarities arise in the election of 1812 and the current campaigns for 2008. DeWitt Clinton played both the Republicans and the Federalists in that election by supporting conflicting views of the war in order to receive votes from both parties. McCain has campaigned with the support of Senator Joe Lieberman, a democrat Vice Presidential candidate in 2000--now independent, to target the independent voters. This relates to Dewitt Clinton through the fact that McCain is trying to gain support from not only his own party, and he’s succeeding at that. On Super Tuesday, 17 out of the 714 delegates were unpledged to the RNC.
Although McCain is not secretly campaigning for or against a war in this election, as was the case of DeWitt Clinton, he is under question from his own party members about his GOP values, or lack thereof. In the past week, many adamant Republicans have publicly expressed their contempt of John McCain with reasons for being too liberal. In a CNN Political Ticker blog, radical conservative Ann Coulter showed disdain for McCain and states that she would campaign and vote for Hillary Clinton versus the Republican frontrunner in a general election. Throughout Mitt Romney’s campaign, he consistently criticized McCain’s lack of conservatism on his stances on global warming and immigration.
Dewitt Clinton intended on changing his views for whomever he was addressing in order to gain votes. McCain has not been so bold compared with the deceit of Dewitt Clinton, however in the past he has pulled a complete turnaround on his views. According to his profile , in 2001 and in 2003, McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts, however he currently is in favor of extending the cuts through 2010. He very well could have used these changes as strategic steps in gaining support from not only his party, but from independents as well.
Although the campaigns of DeWitt Clinton and John McCain differ in so many ways, they are similar through the fact that they both campaigned and appealed to other parties--Clinton with the Federalists and McCain with the independents.
Image Sources:Clinton, DeWitt. [Photograph]. Retrieved February 8, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Junior: http://junior.britannica.com/eb/art-9504
Does a McCain-Lieberman ticket make sense? McCain, Lieberman [Photograph]. Retrieved February 8, 2008, from MSNBC.Com:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16530615/
*EDITED*, I apologize for the layout of the pictures, the preview was misleading.
Edited, fixed hyperlinks
-Diana Davino
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