According to the Baltimore Sun, John McCain almost said something real at a town hall meeting in Richardson, Texas:
"I will conduct a respectful debate," McCain told the crowd at Texas Instruments, as ABC News' Bret Hovell reported. "Now, it will be spirited because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica--- conservative Republican,"
You can watch the tongue-tied Senator below, but the point is I believe John McCain isn't the threat Democrats make him out to be. Just because he doesn't want to cut and run in Iraq, doesn't make him a maverick as the melodramatic left might make you think.
McCain is about as liberal as conservative Republicans come. While I want to see a Democrat in the oval office come January, I don't think old man McCain is the reactionary Clinton and Obama make him out to be.