McCain has always run toward a fight.
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had run out of them. It’s why he
hosts regular town hall meetings,
and it’s why they are lively affairs.
It is also why, four years after his loss to President Barack
Obama, McCain is back at the
center of Washington politics.
The GOP is currently in a period of self-examination and
soul-searching, and — being out
of power in the White House —
lacks a clear national leader.
As a multitude of Republicans
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compete for the spotlight, McCain has managed to shine just
as bright as many of them. That’s
despite the fact that he has less
influence, as he himself admitted
during an hour-long interview,
than he did during the days when
he was a senator who still harbored presidential ambitions.
From his involvement in the
immigration reform effort, to the
nomination fight over Obama’s
defense secretary, former Sen.
Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), McCain is
more relevant now than he has
been since he carried his party’s
McCain and
Sarah Palin
during the
Republican
National
Convention
in 2008.