Nevertheless, one cannot square what McCain actually said in the snippets you posted, with the way you characterized it. And one cannot read the entire interview, without realizing the selectivity of the quotes you posted and then mischaracterized.
And make no mistake, we are on the same side, whether you or McCain want us or not.
Sure, we're on the same side -- and I want my side to be intellectually respectable. Taking quotes out of context and scurrilously mischaracterizing them is one of the things that is killing the conservative movement right now. Nobody who's not already drinking the kool-aid is going to agree with what you said. You can't get to those insults from the text of the interview.
If you want to challenge what McCain said, that's great. But you've got to do it honestly.
He agrees with the interviewer, plan and simple. He believes GWB is a human rights abuser, a polluter, has “squandered” US credibility and “world love”, he said it clear as day.
I can understand that you want to trust him, and don’t want to see or believe that he agrees with the Dims, and thinks just like them. His heart and his gut are with them.
There were a dozen ways he could answered those questions, and hundreds of ways he could have handled the press over all these years, like Rudy, Fred, or Duncan have proven for the last 8 years.
The evidence is in his words and deeds, in the past and daily.