[LloydofDSS]

If McCane is so “centrist” why is he making all these claims about being a hard right conservative. Why is he chasing the conservative vote? Why isn’t he appealing to all the “moderates” with his moderate accomplishments? I think he simply has fooled all the “lightweight” republicans who just aren’t paying attention, but they vote anyway.

[Rome2000]

I pay a lot of attention and found him to be the most conservative out of the 3 guys running.

Human Events mag had Romney #8 on their "TOP 10 RINOS" list just 2 years ago and yet we have all of these super smart people running around calling him a "conservative" all of a sudden because he has good hair and $400 neck ties.

Huckabee is more conservative than MYTH but McCain would be a better POTUS, he has an ACU rating of 83%.

Has he made mistakes and written some bad legislation and made some bad votes, certainly.

Either vote for him or not, there are plenty of Democrats that will be voting for him over the 2 Marxists anyway.

[ari-freedom]

He already did appeal to the moderates for years. Now that the nomination is in the bag, he will appeal to the conservatives, but not the real die hards. They will always hate him.

Very different from the usual strategy of appealing to conservatives to get the nomination and moving to the middle for the general.

Primary voters are very ideological and tend to pick candidates that don’t have broad appeal beyond their base. McCain doesn’t want a red vs blue strategy. He wants to go all over the map