Centrists and independents are likely to take a close look at the candidacy of John McCain in the coming months, especially once the GOP attack machine gets revved up and starts painting the Democratic candidate as some kind of raving socialist.
Independents and centrists with a green bent, however, would do well to read this piece from The Nation, which should stand as a primer on McCain’s environmental credentials.
A sample:
The media touts McCain’s stance on climate as evidence of his straight talkin’ maverickosity. Conservative stalwarts assail McCain for his heresy (Romney attacked McCain’s climate bill in Michigan and Florida). The public hails him for reaching across the aisle. Even Democrats and greens seem inclined to give him a grade of Good Enough on climate.
This is a classic case of what our president calls the soft bigotry of low expectations. Judged against his fellow Republicans, McCain is a paragon of atmospheric wisdom. Judged against the climate and energy legislation afoot in Congress, he falls short. Judged against the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, he is a pale shadow. Judged against the imperatives of climate science — that is to say, judged against brute physical reality — he isn’t even in the ballpark.
It’s time to stop grading McCain on a curve.
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Hank Kalet 
McCain is no moderate, no maverick he\’s a hard core conservative who would not be in the best interests of the average American. McCain would continue with nasty, belligerent, tax cuts for the rich GOP conservatism. He will be hard to beat because we have so many dumbed down Americans. I apologize for the harsh language but after 7+ years of the worst president ever I am not in the mood to sugar coat my language, it\’s too critical for our nation\’s future. We need to get off this right wing/conservative Titanic which dooms the country to failure after failure.