Congressional Democrats are attacking McCain for flip-flopping on offshore drilling:
“This week’s flip-flop on offshore oil drilling by President Bush and Senator John McCain is nothing more than a cynical campaign ploy that will do nothing to lower energy prices and represents another big giveaway to oil companies already making billions in profits,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
That might be an effective attack–if so many voters hadn’t flip-flopped on the issue themselves. As Jonathan Martin reports:
A veteran of Florida politics who is not tied to Crist says the gas price-driven poll numbers justify the drilling flip-flop (justify in the political sense, that is): “[After many years working in the state], I would have told you that it was the single issue that would never, ever, ever change. Ev-uh,” says the source. But “somewhere between $3.00 and $4.00, the [poll] number literally flipped upside down.”
