The former House Majority Leader veers off message in an interview with PolitickerCA: "If McCain wins the election, we've got just as much work to do as if Obama won," DeLay said. "I've known McCain for 23 years, and McCain's hard to swallow."



More: "His stance on global warming, immigration, campaign finance, affirmative action," DeLay said, "it's just a whole list of things that is not going to appeal to conservative Republicans. And if he becomes president, teaming up with the Democrats, we're going to have a lot of work to do to stop them."



This is actually not a bad thing for McCain vis a vis independent voters as it allows his campaign to note that he's taken on and angered members of parties.



DeLay, it should be noted, did say he was planning to vote for McCain and that Obama is "awful."



UPDATE: I got at it two paragraphs above, but should probably have been more explicit: McCain and DeLay clashed over the years and the GOP nominee aggressively went after some of the former leader's aides in the Abramoff probe. One of the great parts about Politico is that you don't have to lard items with explanations about who is who as there is an expectation about the knowledge of readers. But I should have fleshed out the McCain-DeLay backstory a bit more.

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