McCain has clout, as a long-term senator. He’s a player in the Senate, hardly a johnny-come-lately with no real power in the party.
Have you not been here long? Republicans hated John McCain, and have for years! Rush, Hannity, Dobson, Robertson, Coulter, Bush, Santorum, Lott....no one liked him. Most FReepers could not stand him. He stabbed his own party in the back, numerous times. He had more clout with the press, and the Democratic Sentators, than he did with his own party! You see how far THAT got him. Brutus couldn’t have done better, than these “friends” did to McCain.