Politico looks at the "heavy cost" of McCain's re-election

Or re-nomination, at least:

[I]t’s been a costly road to a 5th term for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, and the experience is likely to leave a lasting and unsightly stain on his legacy.

It’s not just the $20 million he’s spent already this election or the scorched earth campaign that he’s run. Rather, it’s the choices he’s made and the positions he’s embraced—-and what it reveals about him—-that could make for a complicated final chapter in his political biography.

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A former McCain aide, who asked not to be identified, said it’s an open question which shade of McCain the Senate would see upon his return and acknowledged the repositioning might affect how he’s remembered.

“This could be a definition for his legacy,” he said. “From 1997 to 2006, that’s a different legacy.”

PHXated’s “The Case Against John McCain” is here.