will this hurt or help him

Thoughts?  I don’t know how this hurts him when it comes to independents.  Personally, it is par for the course with Johnny.  All hat and no cattle.   When it comes down to it, he votes right in line with the party.  Sort of like Chuck Hagel, Warner and the rest of the pathetic lot of them

WASHINGTON – Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes in the bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes and the rights of the unborn.

What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party , and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.