“If McCain is unpopular with some conservatives, it’s because he has the courage to say what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.”
Can you give an example?
We have to stay in the war as long as necessary to win it.
There are more wars in our future.
The only thing worse than war with Iran is Iran getting nuclear weapons.
There is no consensus in the US to deport all illegal aliens.
Republicans need the cloture rules as much as democrats, and trying to destroy them is arrogance and politically stupid.
Waterboarding is torture, and it is flat stupid to give opponents such propaganda for something you are going to use all of 3 times.
Half the pols in Washington are bought, and votes are openly sold for a few thousand dollars.
We can't afford huge new entitlements, including politically popular ones supported by republicans like medicare part D.
Social security is going broke, and it has to be fixed, yesterday.
That is ten off the top of my head, all of them unpopular with large, politically powerful groups, all of them true.
***crickets***