re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The fundamentalist GOP base was not at all pleased with McCain’s record on social policies, including abortion, and was prepared to run a third-party candidate to make their point.

I suspect that he had to really cave in on issues like abortion to guarantee their continued support.

McCain wouldn’t have vetoed anti-abortion bills, and the way that the abortion amendment got shoved into the ACA shows what the GOP would have done anytime there was anything remotely relevant to abortion rights.

I mean, it’s hard to tell with McCain. He’s not so much a maverick as inconsistent. He would also, however, have immediately faced rebellion from Palin unless he was hewing to the far-right.

But there’s really no reason to believe he wouldn’t have just gone along with the far right, who are the mainstream of the GOP.