AP Analysis of This Republican Is Wrong

From AP/Breitbart with a hat tip to Right Nation, Senator John McCain is becoming popular again amongst the rank and file Republicans.

Republicans also turned to McCain, the occasional party maverick with the gold-plated reformer's resume and a demonstrated appeal to independent voters. GOP leaders covet that appeal as they look ahead to fall elections that will test their grip on power.

"Obviously, when you're looking at the issue of congressional reform, the first person you turn to in the United States Senate is John McCain, and we've done so," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.

That was Tuesday, the same day that California Rep. David Dreier walked across the Capitol to see McCain about legislation House Republicans are trying to pull together to curb the influence of lobbyists.

Not that many years ago, Republicans were furious at the Arizona senator for his ceaseless, and ultimately successful, efforts to pass legislation designed to reduce the impact of big money on politics.

The high command in the House was doubly angry, fuming that the McCain briefly used the office of the Democratic leader as a base of operations to secure the votes of GOP rebels needed for final passage.

Well, I'm still fuming over John McCain. He is one of those gentlemen that has a keen knowledge of what he would like to do, but is not keenly aware of what the end result of his tampering will be. The McCain-Feingold Act is a mess. McCain's anti-torture legislation makes it much more difficult to legally exact information from terrorists by watering down the definition of torture to a point where some Islamic Jihad moron, willing to eat dirt and live in a cave, cannot be forced to either stand for extended periods of time or to listen to bad music played loudly. His joining the "Gang of 14" effectively helped cede equal power to Senate Democrats in judicial nominee voting when the Republicans held a 55 vote majority.

Give me a true conservative who will vote consistently on the issues. I don't think the Republicans need to veer to the center. How about McCain meandering a bit to the right instead?