So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. (See previous post on waterboarding.) Turns out, he too is just another politician hungry for votes.

On Wednesday McCain voted against a Senate bill that would ban waterboarding and all forms of physical interrogation methods used by the CIA against terror suspects. The Senate passed the bill 51 to 45.

What happened to the presidential candidate who debated his Republican rivals by arguing that he understood torture because he spent five years as a prisoner of war? What happened to the politician who added a ban on torture to a defense spending bill in 2005?

I guess he decided it’s more important to win Conservative votes than to do what he feels is right. That sure is a hot campaign slogan. Good one, John.