By Denise Ross

John McCain hates farm subsidies and doesn’t like ethanol much, either.

I come from that group of independents attracted to McCain, but it’s times like these I wonder why Sen. John Thune, R-SD, endorsed him again?

“I’d like to start out by saying to you that I have to give you a little straight talk about the farm bill that is winding its way through Congress,” McCain told the audience of about 250 people. “I do not support it. I would veto it. I would do that because I believe that these subsidies, the subsidies are unnecessary.”

McCain, who has long opposed agricultural subsidies, said later in an interview that he was willing to risk the political backlash in heavily agricultural states …

This he says to an Iowa crowd. Iowa! He might as well have been at the Corn Palace in Mitchell. Read it all here.

Thune just spent the better part of 2 years fighting to keep funding for “production agriculture” (ie, subsidies) in the Farm Bill. It’s been his centerpiece issue. What if he does become VP. How would that go when the next farm bill comes up?

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