He Never Was One of Us

Found this CNN article about John McCain transitioning back to the Senate.  The last part of the article really sums up McCain.

"He doesn't have any weight in the House Republican caucus and very few supporters," said Jeremy Mayer, an associate professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. "In the Senate, he has some friends like [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsey Graham, but [minority leader Mitch] McConnell has never liked the guy, and he's never been successful at leading his own caucus."

McCain's standing in the party could further decrease if the Republican senator reverts to his tendency to buck the GOP establishment and speak his mind when he disagrees with the leadership. It's a pattern that has given McCain his maverick reputation but one that has often made him more of an ally to Democrats than his own party.

But as he campaigned for the presidency, McCain found himself courting conservatives he used to criticize and serving up Republican red-meat speeches he used to avoid, in the process facing criticism from a host of former allies in the Democratic Party that the once independent-minded senator had changed his stripes.

It's no wonder Republicans lost the White House.  They put forth a candidate that talks out of both sides of his mouth.  He spent his career critizing Conservatives and then he tried to suck up to them.  Nobody trusted him, neither Conservatives or the Moderate Democrats he once courted.   Although Sarah Palin got him millions of votes he otherwise would have never gotten, even that wasn't enought to overcome John McCain himself.

"His reputation has been impaired. ... It took a beating," Mayer said. "He may want to go back to the old straight-talk John McCain with no filters. And he'll stop feeding red-meat populist conservative sound bites, because he doesn't have to."

Translation:  He no longer needs Conservatives so he'll go back to giving us the "middle finger".

Comments

[Bloviating Zeppelin]

Completely correct but, otherwise, what was our choice? Stay home? Elect Obama? I just couldn't in good conscience do that. I had to vote McCain but, as already pointed out, I voted FOR Palin more than I voted for McCain -- hoping that would assist Conservatives in the future.

BZ

[BobF]

BZ, same thing here. I voted for Palin and the future of the Republican party.

[WMD_Maker]

My vote was pretty much a vote for Palin had she not been there it still would have been a vote AGAINST Obama

[Layla]

You and I are on the same wave length VW. My post today is not far off from yours at all and we share the exact same sentiments. Really. I only voted McLiberal because of Palin.