What's up with John McCain? Who/What is John McCain? [View All]

Can we discuss John McCain?

Two issues:

First, where is McCain on the political spectrum? Is he truly a moderate or is he in bed with the neocons? First he was chewed up and spit out by BushCo, then he stumped for Bush. However, McCain looked uncomfortable and shamed when he touted Bush as "someone who deserves our respect and admiration".

I just don't get it.

Second--I heard Rush Limbaugh wailing on McCain today. He's tearing him apart, calling him a RINO and going ballistic over McCain and how he's so middle-of-the-road and moderate, etc.

I smell a rat. Could it be that the neocons have realized that they're toast, so they're positioning McCain as a moderate--and someone they don't like--to position McCain as the "voice of reason"?

I just get this odd sense that Limbaugh's disdain for McCain is fake and orchestrated. Could McCain possibly be a neocon, and all of this screaming by the neocons, "McCain is such a moderate! McCain is too much of a compromiser" be part of a plan to attract people to one of their own--while pretending as if he's Mr. Independent/moderate?

Also, McCain seems to "stage himself" in high-profile situations (arbiter between Dems/Reps in USSC judge nominations) as the great consensus builder. It all seems just a bit too rehearsed.

I'd love to hear analysis on McCain--and what he REALLY is--and what you might think all of the neocon McCain bashing is really all about....