When it comes to McCain, it's all about positioning for the presidential run. Everything. Everything. Every last word and breath he takes.

We should fear people who crave power this much. He has to be stopped.

I remember going to an event sponsored by AIPAC in 2001 back when McCain was still posing as a moderate, a bit right of the DLC and definately left of mainstream GOPers in congress.  

Prior to the talk, I thought pretty highly of him after his 2000 presidential run.  After the speech, I came of jaded as can be.  

The man was a phony.  He was playing up to the "youths" (this was an event offered just for staffers/interns) and trying to seem moderate, cool and hip. I realized he had a strategy then to be a third party candidate for president in 2004.  He was going to try to be Bullworth.

Soon, he realized that it would be hell to get his third party even on the ballot in most states (just ask Nader) let alone get money and win.

So, he linked arms with Bush and periodically made noises of moderation when it would help him without actually harming what Bush wanted to do (see torture).  This way, he could pretend to still be 2000 McCain while really being Reaganite/Bushite 2008 McCain.

The same people that fell for him besides journalists are the type of people who are now in the blogosphere (after all, McCain raised big bucks online in 2000, he was the first to do so).  I don't think bloggers will be fooled again.

The netroots should make this a project: make the media scrutinize McCain's record and stop drooling all over him. This guy is a winger, and he ought to be exposed before it's too late.

Hatchets are best left in the hands of little old ladies who know how to use them.

If purported liberals insist on the illogic of attacking McCain for attempting reform, they will prove only that "Democratic liberal" is an oxymoron as it seems to me to be.  

The only proposed presidential candidate that this liberal independent would enthusiastically vote for over McCain is McCain's partner in reform, Russ Feingold.  

Neither McCain nor Feingold have the slightest chance of being nominated or elected president outside of a longshot third-party candidacy.

Republicans Light are no improvement over Republicans Heavy and may even be worse to this aging Gene McCarthy fan who retains a Democratic registration in New York so he has a chance to vote against a rightwinger like Hillary Clinton twice.

Am I the only one who remembers that during Bush Jr's. 2000 campaign, he ran as a big-time "moderate???" Yeah he did. The entire corporate media machine was droning on and on and on about how he consistently appointed Democrats to high posts as the Texas governor. How he "worked so very well in tandem with people of other perspectives."

They sure know how to fool them rubes, eh?

McCain's daddy just happens to be a damn admiral in the Navy. Johnny Boy went to one the fanciest exclusive boarding schools in the country. Let us just say, he did not grow up in Harlem!!!

I don't agree with you once again.

Nevertheless, why don't the Dems get behind a serious earmark bill.  Everyone agrees earmarking (making policy decisions in money committees) is the problem.  Why is everyone so scared of this?

McCain also left his wife who supported him through hotel Hanoi for a much young, wealthier woman (who is now Cindy McCain) and he used her $ and AZ connections to run for congress there.  

He is no Arizonian and no paragon of morality either.