From All Angles

[Dolly Llama]

McCain, has been pointing out (rightly) that Romney has flip-flopped on supporting gays. Romney, campaigning for Governor of Massachusetts, described himself as "more gay friendly than Ted Kennedy." Now, in order to win the GOP nomination, he's anti-gay. McCain has been pointing this out. But McCain has done a bit of flip-flopping on gay rights himself.

And now McCain is running this ad:

"Mitt Romney thinks he can fool us. He supported abortion on demand, even allowed a law mandating taxpayer-funding for abortion. He says he changed his mind, but he still hasn’t changed the law. He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy. Now, it’s something different.

Note the use of the religious right catchphrase "special rights". The religious right that McCain is courting considers marriage a "special right" -- when it involves gay people, that is. To them, if a gay person simply wants to get married, they're asking for "special rights". Here McCain is trying to appeal to religious homophobes, and hopes to pull some of their votes away from Huckabee. But McCain hasn't always been this way. He used to have quite a few gay people on his staff. So who's flip-flopping?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/01/mccain-is-now-gay-baiting.html