Most of our candidates say and do a mixture of right and wrong. Of course, we have to form our overall opinion on the sum total of their deeds... good and bad... then and now.
All too often, we don't give credit when credit is due... and we should.
I'd hope that others applied that to me as I work through tough issues.
McCain’s mixture is 85% liberal and 15% conservative, while voting (only in the end such that he has cover both ways) slightly more often on the conservative side than the liberal side.
Unfortunately, he seeks to equivocate on every issue and in every context. He wants it both ways, so in the end, he is never really taking a stand.
He retreats from everything he says or does.