Reply #19: John McCain is one of the rare individuals who can take

[vixengrl]

both sides of an issue, and be wrong on each one. He'll repeat the "short, happy war, low casualties, greeted as liberators" line, and then come back around to say he was "always critical" of Don Rumsfeld. He'll take a stand against torture "on principle", then it'll water down to, it's a-ok if you're CIA. Well, then, what was the principle about? It seems like, instead of firm ideas about how things should be done that would come with experience as an office-holder that has *taught* him lessons, his position changes suggest, well, he'll say anything and compromise often to get elected from his *experience* at running for office.