Posted on 03/15/2005 12:48:54 AM PST by JohnHuang2
In 1991, Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, was reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee for his "poor judgment" in meeting with federal bank regulators who were investigating Arizona businessman Charles Keating, one of his campaign contributors. Ever since, Mr. McCain has been trying to show he is not a hack politician kowtowing to special interests but a man of integrity and principle. Yet the main principle served by Mr. McCain's crusade for campaign finance "reform" has been the principle of incumbent protection, the same goal that motivates hack politicians who kowtow to special interests. In the end, it's hard to see how Mr. McCain's crusade to remove the corrupting influence of money from politics is any more admirable than the corruption of which he was suspected in the Keating scandal.
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McCain makes pond scum look like purified water.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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