We're at war with some really dangerous f'n people, and McCain is:
battle tested.
Does he mean he wants to keep us in Iraq for 100 years? **** NO! However, any soldier knows, you stay until the job is finished or you shouldn't have gone at all. The NVA were about a week away from giving up before the Damn liberals coerced us into pulling out.
Bro, Senator McCain is a bitter old man that has made it very clear he doesn't give one shit about conservatives like us. His campaigns focus is independents and democrats; the same today as it was in 2000. He doesn't care about the GOP base, he wants to drag the party to the left and destroy it as it was because he hates us for denying him the oval office in 2000.
What you are saying is exactly what he is counting on - the conservative "base" will come crawling back and vote for him no matter how he's abused and neglected us over the past several years.
There are no guarantees he will nominate decent people to SCOTUS, that he will make the tax cuts permanent, that he will not destroy our economy with all of his green ideas and the witchhunting of the oil companies, etc....
For that matter, from the way he has talked about GITMO and "torture", I'm not so sure he will actually prosecute an effective war on terror.
There are no guarantees with this guy and for me, hoping he'll see the light is not enough for me to pull the lever.