John McCain – Strait Talk America?
John McCain, widely credited as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for President, is widely not-Republican in his stances on Globalization and Free Trade. McCain has been in favor of some protectionist actions over his years in the Senate, and for the sake of maintaining the political center, has not been decisive in recent times about his opinions dealing with Globalization.
“We have to provide for workers in a more effective way that have lost their jobs because of jobs fleeing oversees. We have to hope that, not hope, but try to implement policies that get more of this prosperity more evenly distributed.
By the way, I am not saying redistribution of the wealth. I am saying that more benefits of free trade and globalization and lower prices could flow to more middle and lower income Americans. I do believe there are some economics that come into play here where people could get more prosperity out of these good economic times. But there certainly is great uncertainty out there.”
So we see a real rise in the uncertainty about Globalization in McCain’s politics. So while he votes for the most part in the Senate for pro-Globalization stances, the movement towards the political center required for his campaign to be effective has lead to new caveats in his Globalization reasoning. While he is clearly pro-Globalization, McCain appears to have many more concerns then Mitt Romney. It should be interesting to see if their stances on Globalization provide to be a polarizing issue during the Republican primaries in early 2008.
