I doubt it. It goes to his temperment more than to his views, and having a Republican Senator saying it means that this will become a rallying cry for Democrats. We will hear Cochran’s words a million times before November, bank on it.
I realize some of you want to see McCain go down, but perhaps an appeal to his Senate/House coattails will convince you that we don’t want the Republican candidate to be completely decimated in the process.
It's more than a desire. It's acceptance of the fact that Republican principles have been compromised to the point that electing one of our own will damage the party decades into the future and perhaps destroy it. Sometimes you must throw one of your own overboard, cut out the cancer, so to speak.
He will be more dangerous to the Republican party than Hillary or Obama. At least with those two, you take away the liberal claim that we really aren't a democracy and the GOP can still be an opposition party.
With McCain, we will have one of our own working against us. He will compromise on judges. There is no doubt. He will compromise our sovereignty. There is no doubt there, also. He keeps moving to the left to get elected.
How much further left will McCain go? Answer: as far as necessary to sit in the Oval Office.
I’m with you. No one on FR has been more critical of McCain than I. However, the thought of either a return of Ahab and Jezabel or the Crypto Muslim as POTUS and a Dem majority in Congress has forced me to reconsider my opposition to McCain.