With friends like McCain….

Who’s pro life?

BuzzFeed reports on John McCain.  You might remember him from his atypical town hall meetings during his worrisome senatorial campaign. It was the first time many Arizonans ever laid eyes on the guy in the flesh. Unlike others in the delegation, he keeps his distance from the underlings who stuff the envelopes and pound those campaign signs into the parched caliche during the hot days preceding elections. He didn’t even bother to attend the 2008 state presidential preference election where his delegates endorsed him for the nation’s top job.

Here is McCain undercutting conservative Michele Bachmann, and blasting Tea Party patriots as “amazing,” foolish” and “deceiving.”  He also referred to them as “Hobbits,” later claiming he was “misunderstood. Watch him here advocating for raising the debt limit.

The Arizona senator recently blunderously endorsed his former rival Mitt Romney.  Many Romney supporters worried that such a move might actually be harmful to the candidate, who has, in recent years increasingly veered to the right.

Now it’s revealed that McCain’s 2008 campaign team was hard at work on a voluminous, 200-page opposition research tome to besmirch the former Massachusetts governor. A major area in which considerable work was done was on issues related to abortion which Team McCain made a focal point. Like many, Romney has evolved to a strong pro-life position and his views are welcomed.  He has also won the support of the Honorable Kris Kobach, who worked with Arizona’s former Senate President Russell Pearce in crafting Arizona’s nationally copied law, known as SB 1070, addressing the massive and costly problem of illegal immigration.

For a refresher of McCain’s own view on the subject of the sanctity of life, we offer this telling video in which he calls abortion an “unpleasant…procedure,” and advocates for “going back to the platform of 1980 and ‘84” — before the pro-life plank was included:

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