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Phoenix, Az. (June 15) - U.S. Senate Candidate J.D. Hayworth (R-Az.) today said he is dismayed by claims that Sen. John McCain does not know McCain's number one contributor who is now serving 50 years in prison. Hayworth called on McCain to admit he knows Scott Rothstein, the convicted Ponzi scheme artist, return all the dirty money he received over the years from investment scams, and promise to return and reject contributions from shady characters. "Sen. McCain likes to talk about how character matters, how political leaders must rise above even the appearance of impropriety," Hayworth said. "It's time his...

TUCSON, AZ (KGUN - TV) - Arizona Senator John McCain now says soldiers sent to the border should be armed. This revelation comes one day after Senate democrats shot down McCain's border plan to send 6,000 soldiers to the border. At a town hall meeting in Tucson, McCain first told 60 of his supporters in attendance that President Obama's plan to send 1,200 soldiers would not work because the soldiers would only be assigned to "desk jobs." (snip) Nunez asked: "What do you say to the those who accuse you of throwing out numbers, sending 6,000 troops to the border,...

WASHINGTON (Ucs News) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was rudely awakened to the harsh political reality of American Presidential politics Sunday. After castigating Barack Obama for having dinner with reformed 60's radical Bill Ayers, Palin was informed by an aid that her running mate had close personal ties to convicted bank fraudster Charles Keating. According to Palin staffers The Alaska Governor was "livid" and feels betrayed by the McCain campaign managers. "Who the hell is Charles Keating! and why is John McCain one of the Keating 5?" Apparently Palin was not fully briefed on the Keating 5 controversy. The Palin...

There was one Republican in the Keating Five, John McCain. Alan Cranston-Democrat, Dennis DeConcini-Democrat, Don Riegle-Democrat, John Glenn-Democrat and John McCain.

Democratic surrogates say they've been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain's associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama's connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers. A senior Democrat who has had contact with Obama's high command points to Democratic strategist Paul Begala's comments on this morning's Meet the Press. Begala noted that McCain once "sat on the board of a very right wing organization," the U.S. Council for World Freedom, led by a retired Army Maj. General named John Singlaub. The Anti-Defamation League allegedly called the CWF's parent organization...

I just got an email from my sister telling me that Nobama is ready to unlease a video tomorrow that slaps McCain's integrity with the Keating 5 scandal. They already have the site up. I wonder if they realize that the people who actually ran the scam were all Democrats.

With Congress's approval rating at record lows, the time is ripe for a slam campaign. Barack Obama won't do it, since his Democratic colleagues are running the joint. But it's a huge opportunity for Mr. McCain, who could play Congress's failings off his promises for reform. Mr. McCain could take encouragement from history. Harry Truman managed a 1948 victory by trashing the "Do Nothing Congress." Upstart Barry Goldwater in 1952 told Arizonans that Majority Leader Ernest McFarland represented the mess in Washington, and snatched the Democrat's seat. Tom Daschle followed McFarland, after being pilloried for turning the Senate into a...

“I am proud to be a conservative,” John McCain declared, acknowledging that he cannot win the presidency without the support of conservatives. McCain spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Thursday as he tried to mend fences with the Republican right, which views him as too liberal on a number of issues. And he was greeted by the conference with surprising enthusiasm, with applause before his speech so lengthy that he had to say “thank you” more than a dozen times. Speaking just hours after Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race, McCain acknowledged he had...

A leader of the modern conservative movement says the bipartisan deal to end the filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees was all about the presidential election of 2008. Arizona Senator John McCain was one of the seven Republicans involved in brokering the recent controversial "compromise" that suspended a Democratic-led filibuster and allowed judicial nominee Priscilla Owen to finally get an up-or-down vote before the full Senate. The deal called for allowing two other nominees to go before the Senate for a confirmation vote, but permitted Democrats to continue their filibustering tactics on future nominees. Paul Weyrich, the founder and director...

Remember the Keating Five? McCain’s own standards would have hung him. For too long, McCain has been given a free pass by the media, which promotes campaign-finance reform to silence other voices, and by his Republican colleagues, who are concerned about alienating McCain given the GOP's tenuous majority in the Senate. In John McCain's America, any politician who accepts a large contribution or gift from a donor, and then takes steps consistent with the donor's interests — even though there is no legal quid pro quo — is corrupt. Well, then, by his own standard, McCain is corrupt. McCain was...

McCain back in spotlight By BILL STRAUB Scripps Howard News Service May 25, 2005 WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain has been off center stage during recent political battles but he once again grabbed the spotlight to do what he does best - step on the toes of Republican Party leaders. And his actions have revived speculation about his presidential ambitions. Just six months after winning election to a fourth term from Arizona with 77 percent of the vote, and less than three years before the beginning of the presidential selection process in Iowa and New Hampshire, McCain is returning to...