I believe you but he was defending a friend....he didn't say the swiftboat vets were wrong as much as he said he believed Kerry,and wanted the Vietnam stuff stopped.......hell, that is the same stuff Bush said on the issue so I guess Bush is a RINO too....I just think the term is thrown out too emotionally.....you haven'st looked at his track record.......I think of RINO's as Spector, Chaffee, Snow and such.......their views are way more liberal than McCain's
Which doesn't explain these:
McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican
Sen. McCain: We Conservatives Oppose Bush's Tax Cuts (BARF ALERT)
Push to Pass McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Bill: up next week - IT’S ALL BUNK
McCain is a liberal in anybodys book. And he called the SwiftVets ads "dishonest and dishonorable". He's a RINO.