Graham: McCain would consider a tax increase on Social Security as ‘part of a comprehensive approach

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On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top McCain surrogate, about Sen. John McCain’s “doozy” of a flip-flop this past week on whether he would consider raising taxes as part of a Social Security fix. Despite the McCain campaign’s backtracking assertion this week that raising taxes is “absolutely out of the question,” Graham said McCain could support it “if it’s part of a comprehensive approach.”

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/lindsey-graham-ss-flip/

Following Graham’s comments, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle remarked that, “we don’t know what we’re going to get with John McCain. The more he talks, the less certain we are about any of the positions he’s taken.”

[TwilightGardener]

1. Good response by Daschle. McEarlybirdspecial is flip-flopping like

there's no tomorrow.

[NCDem60]

3. McCain does not flip-flop. In order

to flip-flop you have to at least hold one position for a reasonable amount of time. What McCain does is revolve. As sure as day follows night John will have a new position tomorrow.

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2. Graham said that? McCain wants to eviscerate and privatize Social Security

...for christ sake!