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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.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer. Pushing back against what it calls “guilt-by-association” tactics by McCain, the Obama campaign is e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website, KeatingEconomics.com, that will have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends. The Obama campaign,...

Well, it's not what one might think. They have a correction on an irrelevant point in a completely discredited article -- but at least it's right at the top: A front-page article on Feb. 21 about Senator John McCain’s record on lobbying and ethics, including his role in the Keating Five case, described incorrectly the reprimand delivered to three other members of the Senate in 1991 for intervening with government regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating Jr. The Senate Ethics Committee rebuked the three senators for improper behavior, but under a parliamentary agreement the full Senate did not censure...

Facing an uphill battle in the November elections, Republicans need to nominate a presidential candidate who represents the best traditions of the Grand Old Party: fiscal responsibility, devotion to national security and honest conduct of the nation's business. Republican voters should consider themselves lucky. They have two candidates highly qualified to occupy the Oval Office: John McCain and Mitt Romney, two principled political figures who could chart a new course for our country and lead it forward with honor. In a close call, our endorsement goes to McCain, a war hero, experienced player in the U.S. Senate and Washington politics,...

Why hasn't anyone raised the matter of the Keating Five and John McCain's involvement in that scandal? To jog your memory, here is (liberal) wikipedia's description of the basic facts of the case: "In 1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., collapsed. Lincoln's chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the thrift's failure. Keating, however, told the House Banking Committee that the FHLBB and its former chief Edwin J. Gray were pursuing a vendetta against him. Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It...

With John McCain’s victory in the Republican Primary in Florida, a lot of attention has come his way. The reaction of the pundits and the blogosphere has been all over the map. Some, such as Michael Medved, are enthusiastic about the candidate and his chances in the general election; others, such as Rush Limbaugh, are concerned that a McCain candidacy will spell the end of the Republican party as we know it. And with the cheering for and against him, so to have his past actions and policies come under scrutiny. Everything, from the Keating Five, to the Gang of...

There's a report today that the New York Times has a story coming up that details extensive involvement between Senator McCain and a telco lobbyist that may have resulted in the telco retro-active immunity provision of the new FISA amendment. ... According to Matt Drudge, McCain has hired legal counsel to pressure the Times to hold back on the story until after the primaries, or kill it outright. Additionally, according to Drudges account, "Rutenburg had hoped to break the story before the Christmas holiday, sources reveal, but editor Keller expressed serious reservations about journalism ethics and issuing a damaging story...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Senator John McCain said that, if elected, he would do what other presidents had tried but failed to do: cut government spending sharply enough to reduce the budget deficit while lowering taxes at the same time. In an interview outlining his economic approach, Mr. McCain emphasized his experience working on economic matters in Congress and laid out an unorthodox version of conservatism. After initially opposing President Bush’s tax cuts, he has become a supporter of making them permanent and of pursuing additional tax reductions, saying they are the best way to encourage economic growth.

Steve Scully: This is a political question in terms of how he gets the nomination, but just from what you have seen, how much support do you think he has among the base of the Republican Party? Roberta McCain: I don’t think he has any. I don’t know what the base of the Repub–maybe I don’t know enough about it, but I’ve not seen any help whatsoever. Scully: So can he then go on and become the nominee of this party? McCain: Yes, I think holding their nose they’re going to have to take him. Scully: Can you explain? McCain:...

I just decided..if it gets there..McCain for me.. He seems the only one with America truley imbeded in his heart.His blood flowed for that America. A good staff will provide the rest.......

(He says he wants to clean up politics; GOP activists say he's muzzling speech) Washington, D.C. - Republican John McCain has a unique obstacle to overcome as he seeks his party's presidential nomination. His signature achievement in the U.S. Senate - the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law - is reviled by many of the GOP's most vocal activists and powerful interest groups."You have the key constituencies of the Republican Party, or the conservative wing of the Republican Party, who consider John McCain to be Public Enemy Number One," said Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer with Foley & Lardner who has battled...

I have had the distinct pleasure of serving with Senator John McCain for the last 12 years in the U.S. Senate. Yet just as important to me as our shared years of service is our common respect for the conservative principles that have guided us in representing our state. That is why the characterization of John McCain as something other than a common-sense conservative is disturbing to me. Senator McCain’s detractors overlook his actual voting record of supporting conservative values. During my time in the Senate with John McCain, we have cast the same vote nearly nine times out of...

Battle between ‘crock’ McCain and 'weird' Giuliani18 February 2007 The Sunday Times Sarah Baxter, Washington POLITICAL opponents are quick to point out that John McCain will be 72 when he enters the White House if he wins the presidency in two years’ time. His disarming response is: “I’m as old as dirt and have more scars than Franken-stein.” And he never fails to mention his indomitable mother and her twin sister, who have just celebrated their 95th birthday. Age has become an issue for McCain. He has been hip enough to appear in a cameo role in the film Wedding...

A source close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential exploratory committee tells HUMAN EVENTS that McCain’s team had nothing to do with the video that appeared yesterday on YouTube showing GOP rival Mitt Romney at a 1994 debate with Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.). The video sent Romney’s newly formed campaign team into overdrive, prompting the former Massachusetts governor to distance himself from the socially liberal views he espoused in 1994. Romney’s campaign produced its own YouTube video -- taped during an appearance yesterday on Instapundit’s “The Glenn and Helen Show.” The Romney campaign, meanwhile, pointed fingers at McCain’s team for...

These days, with the GOP in free-fall and America's 51st state (better known as Iraq) a bloody neocon nightmare, who's waiting in the wings polishing his halo and patting down his white horse? Well, AZ's own Senator John McCain, who expects to dispatch Democrat dragon-lady Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Presidential race with minimum bother. Thing is, McCain's meaner than the Biblical Cain, and has his share of Abel corpses in the closet to prove it. This dastardly duck was reminded of same in reading an advance copy of Senator Dennis DeConcini: From the Center of the Aisle. The pinto...

The Daily Troika: Fear McCain Richard Quinn, John McCain's top guy in South Carolina, might have written a better headline: "Big Money Backs McCain In South Carolina," but we're pretty sure he's pleased with the story splashed across the front page of The State today. By locking up virtually every major Bush '00/04 Palmetto state donor, McCain's political operation has more in mind than simply depriving potential opponents of campaign cash. McCain's advisers want to create an aura of inevitability around their candidate. That is, with every reckoned-with force in the party behind a McCain tidal wave, how could he...

He's former astronaut, a former senator, an all-American hero. And once again, John Glenn on Thursday showed his mettle. He grabbed Sen. Robert Byrd under the arm as Byrd stumbled in the U.S. Senate chamber, helping to break the fall as Byrd, 89, was about to hit the floor. It was instinctive, the 85-year-old Glenn said later when asked what he was thinking as he grabbed Byrd. "I wasn't thinking anything. I was standing right behind him. I was afraid he broke something," Glenn said, noting that Byrd's ankle appeared to twist. Other senators and Glenn helped Byrd get to...

Why John McCain is finished -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 5, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern Why does John McCain hate the GOP? Furthermore, how does he expect to win the party's support for 2008? Complaints are many from those of us who might be inclined to support him. He sought to author the end of political free speech with his unconstitutional campaign finance reform efforts. He seems clueless when it comes to one of the issues that his base voters care about – the protection of marriage. And he seems to be forgetting that an energized base is what he will need...