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"On one side, we have a woman that said she was a conservative when it fit her needs and then changed teams, her husband also switched teams."

"On the other side we have a Senator that has always said he was a conservative but his record was hit and miss."

You left out the part about McCain WANTING to switch teams just like the Huffingtons, but Jeffords beat him to it and the Democrats no longer wanted him. I really can't decide who I find more despicable, Huffington or McCain. I guess it's a draw.

I plan to do to McCain in November exactly what Huffington says the McCains did to Bush - write in someone's name for President that I think is more deserving of holding the office, and I suspect I won't be alone.

>>>”we have a Senator that has always said he was a conservative but his record was hit and miss.”

American Conservative Union Ratings for the Likely 2008 Presidential Candidates

Senator John McCain (AZ)
83 Lifetime

80 2005

Senator Hillary Clinton (NY)
9 Lifetime

12 2005

Former Vice President Al Gore (TN)
9 Lifetime

N/A

Senator Barack Obama (IL)
8 Lifetime

8 2005

Senator John Kerry (MA)
5 Lifetime

8 2005

http://www.conservative.org/archive2/2008potus.asp

Looks like he hit a bit more then he missed.

>>>You left out the part about McCain WANTING to switch teams just like the Huffingtons, but Jeffords beat him to it and the Democrats no longer wanted him.

They “no longer wanted him” so much they begged him to become Kerry’s VP, offering him the sun and moon if would say “yes”.

Newsweek via Outside the Beltway November 5, 2004
James Joyner

Kerry’s courtship of Senator John McCain to be his running mate was longer-standing and more intense than previously reported. As far back as August 2003, Kerry had taken McCain to breakfast to sound him out to run on a unity ticket. McCain batted away the idea as not serious, but Kerry, after he wrapped up the nomination in March, went back after McCain a half-dozen more times.

“To show just how sincere he was, he made an outlandish offer,” Newsweek’s Thomas reports. “If McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice president to include secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed, ‘You’re out of your mind. I don’t even know if it’s constitutional, and it certainly wouldn’t sell.’”

Kerry was thwarted and furious. “Why the f— didn’t he take it? After what the Bush people did to him…’”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2004/11/newsweek_election_issue_how_he_did_it/

but whatever.