[ordinaryguy]

McCain has acknowledged that modern conservatives have been more hostile to government than he. "Many contemporary conservatives have let their healthy skepticism about government sink into something unhealthy, an embittered loathing of the federal government," McCain and Salter wrote in "Worth the Fighting For." A good government "must not shrink from its duty to be the highest expression of the national will and the last bulwark against all assaults on our founding ideals," which include liberty and opportunity.

Is it any wonder that the 'base' distrusts him?

The Curious Mind of John McCain

[George_1950]

I guess it depends on how you define 'liberty', 'opportunity', and 'national will'.