My heartburn with McCain is not that he has some liberal notions - an 83 lifetime ACU rating should not be all that bad. But he picks very poorly which issues to side with the libs on: Amnesty, Globull Warming, being two very egregious ones.
Why couldn’t he have picked saving the whales and legalizing pot instead.
I suspect McCain's reason for picking amnesty and global warming -- as opposed to sae the whales and legalizing pot -- could be summed up as "What can I do to piss off conservatives?"
He seems incapable of sticking the knife in without twisting it.