We Conservatives must always try to please our critics, and John McCain is that man
What's all the fuss just because McCain "rarely" works with our critics. I mean, are we not a little selfish to demand things be done right and invoke leadership and principle, right from wrong when exercising legislative power.
Let's not ignore, but celebrate those wonderful compromises that McCain "rarely" executed.
McCain/Feingold
McCain/Kennedy
Opposition to tax cuts
Giving Constitutional rights to terror detainees
Opposing interrogation techniques of terror detainees
Leading "Gang of 7" morons on caving into democRAT judicial demands
Accepts extremist environmental positions
constantly burns bridges with Conservatives, builds bridges with democRATS
...etc
The problem with McCain is that his guiding “principle” is that he wants people to love him. So he does what will get the most people to love him. And when that makes some people NOT love him, rather than accepting that he can’t be loved by everybody, he lashes out, because by blaming those people for NOT loving him, he can say it’s not HIS fault they don’t love him, they are just evil people.
Just like when he fell into the Keating-5 scandal, his response was to tell the nation that EVERY politician was corrupt and untrustworthy, but that HE HAd seen the light and would pass laws to protect us from the whole lot of untrustworthy evil political class.
In other words, he personally broke the law, but rather than acknowledge he had a personal flaw, he told the world that EVERYBODY was just as bad as him, only worse because they wouldn’t admit it.