I used to like McCain a lot. I even thought I might vote for him in 2000 had he gotten the nomination. As I recall, a lot of the "conservatives" here in the Mudcat back then were calling him a closet liberal and some even were calling him a Socialist.

I stopped having any respect for McCain at all when he started parroting the Bush line, with gusto, in order to strengthen his chances of getting elected president. That shows a lack of character on his part, and since I had previously liked him because I thought he had a lot of character, that makes him doubly disappointing.