Bottom-line. McCain's part in enabling Bush is not something worthy of promotion
Interpretation: You are totally not cool with everything McCain did from 2001–2007.
Back in January, when I bestowed Favored Republican status on John McCain, the very thought of me becoming one of his most strident critics on the Forum couldn't have been further from my mind. He only has himself to blame; and it is a consequence of his very own actions, which has compelled me to hold no candle for the John McCain of 2008
Interpretation: You are totally cool with everything McCain did from 2001–2007, you just don't like the election posturing that any Republican candidate would, of course, have to do.
This sorta reminds me how every single Democrat from Illinois I knew was so happily behind Topinka for Governor around 2004, and then instantly switched to the painfully unpopular incumbent once the election campaign actually started.
Partisans never seem to be able to help themselves.