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I quoted you, here it is again -

“I don’t mind saying that we could use a few more Republicans like McCain.
I think that there have been more slanders against McCain in this forum than at DU. I have never seen so much garbage in my life. Stuff that is absolutely false.”

I will say this. unlike many other ‘conservatives’ mccain did oppose the pork and many of bush’s big spending programs such as the prescription drug benefit and ethanol subsidies.

You could be right. However, McCain did not do himself any favors with regards to this campaign. I also think that most people did not have McCain has their top three choices for President. I will say again that I must have been insane to say such a comment. I was a Romney supporter and think that the election would have gone differently if he would have won the primary season.

That is my statement. When he quoted me he should have italicized it but his statement at the bottom should have made it clear to all but the dullards that he was responding to it.

On this forum, I have seen McCain accused of rape, of dishonorable conduct as a POW in Vietnam, of causing the death of the 134 sailors on the Forrestal, of corruption, of abandoning living POWs and a hundred other slanders. I have known McCain since '82 when I fought to keep the nomination for John Rhodes' seat from him. I have fought him ever since. I opposed him in 2000. I will tell you this flat out: These accusations are lies.

Is he conservative? Very. On the three shibboliths of the conservative movement, abortion, spending and defense, he is rock solid. He is honest to a fault. He is not a great intellect but he is not stupid. If you walk in and try to persuade John McCain, you better have your crap together. He is a classic navy brat. He is conservative but he is not a movement conservative. He lives in the real world.