It is a fact that this guy was chosen by McCain as a state co-chair, similar to any other appointments McCain would make as President. It's not irrelevant.
Actually, I just clicked the link again, and it’s now the #2 result.
I guess the response to that is that headline comes from the blog post that is merely reproduced at that link. The blog post was from democrats.org.
Anyhow, this is part of why there was a term limits movement in the 90s. It would be good to revisit that issue, and push for term limits again. It seems that just being in Washington for very long causes a lot of these guys to succumb to corruption.