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Campaign. >> anna marie, isn't it true you covered the john mccain campaign, wasn't mccain even more firm in terms of the boundaries that he would set and stop people if they went too far. and he tried to play the gentleman saying the president was, at that point, senator obama was a good guy, he just disagreed with him? didn't mccain run a different campaign trying to pull some of this back when it got out of hand? >> i think he tried to. there is a lot of republican that's say that's why mccain lost. i think mccain like a lot of people of his generation really wanted politics to be about iss...

We hit them, okay? >> i think the one thing you can say about him is he's consistent. >> he may be principled, but he's also very pragmatic which explains what he's trying to do. he's trying to run to the right as far and as fast as he can because he saw what happened -- >> he has the most conservative vote in the senate now. >> he just saw what happened to his colleague, senator bennett, who didn't run to the right as far as and as fast as he can. >> didn't mccain do this, didn't he go from being a maverick -- >> there's a big difference between senator hatch and senator mccain when it comes ...

We hit them, okay? >> i think the one thing you can say about him is he's consistent. >> he may be principled, but he's also very pragmatic which explains what he's trying to do. he's trying to run to the right as far and as fast as he can because he saw what happened -- >> he has the most conservative vote in the senate now. >> he just saw what happened to his colleague, senator bennett, who didn't run to the right as far as and as fast as he can. >> didn't mccain do this, didn't he go from being a maverick -- >> there's a big difference between senator hatch and senator mccain when it comes ...

He could have made that bill a more moderate bill if he wanted to and he didn't do it. >> he said hindsight is 20/20. he did what he thought was best at the time and that's been consistent about him. he said that at cpac, he was honest. >> we criticize them when they do it and we remember afterwards. as the door closes him behind, we -- >> i think the one thing you can say about him is he's consistent. >> he may be principled, but he's also very pragmatic which slain what is he's trying to do. he's trying to run to the right as far and as fast as he can because he saw what happened -- >> he ha...

And said, oh, no he didn't. i can't believe he actually -- he actually went there. i'm still a little stunned by that. >> well, not stunned to say it if he believes it. i'm not stunned to say it. i'm glad, though, al hunt, he went there. didn't mccain or somebody blow off the naacp years ago? >> bush. >> was it bush? >> it's hard to refute what jonathan says about some of the substance. don't forget this was somebody in 1994 promised he would be better on gay rights than ted kennedy and on abortion than ted kennedy. there's a pattern here. i thought it was smart to go. i don't think he was pla...