Letters to the Editor
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Not commiting to taking public funding in the general election...
not such a big liability now I guess. Looks like the "Ethics" mantle is up for grabs in this election. I've never understood how one of the Keating 5 got a hold of it in the first place.
It may be that they didn't have a romantic relationship, it isn't like he has a thing for young blondes, but not all relationships need to be sexual to be improper.
(And somewhere Mike Huckabee silently curses the NYT for not running this story on Feb 7)
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No surprise
McCain is an old politician -- been in DC a long time. The one thing we know is that power corrupts -- that became clear during the Clinton impeachment hearings as members of Congress fell like rain to charges of sexual impropriety.
A lot of us have long wanted term limits for this very reason. Let people serve while they are still untainted and idealistic, and then send them home. This is where "experience" becomes a liability.
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Give us some proof.
Speak on the record, provide some concrete proof or shut the fuck up.
There was so much bullshit about President Clinton thrown around that turned out to be false, I'm sick and tired of listening to backroom, off the record accounts of something that may or may not have happened. Tell the truth on the record and prove it or go away.
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Still not sure about this story
Seems really weird. 10 years ago? Both deny the allegations?
What's the point to this? I just don't see it. I can see how it can imply things, but without any hard facts it's a bit weak on how it matters.
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What commission?
In the third to last paragraph, when you finally break away from the romantic gossip, you reference a commission McCain sent letters to.
Which %&$(# commission?
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Rather Late in the Day...
But when is a good time to level these types of accusations, which appear to run from infidelity to corruption of some kind.
What a mess for McCain and the GOP.
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Glad to see Keating Five is back
Just read the entire NYT article. From what is said, it is a bit shady to be sure. But between the lines of a carefully edited and heavily scrutinized story, there is a lot there. Beyond the (admittedly) tawdry romantic details, it is VERY important to start undoing John McCain's "straight talking" myth. He was heavily implicated and partially censured for using improper influence to help a business associate defraud the taxpayers of the United States. If that isn't an ethics violation, I don't know what is. So to see him now in his maverick incarnation playing a holier-than-thou ethics reformer is disgusting. And to know that 10 years AFTER the Keating Five scandal alledgedly made him clean up his act he was doing the same thing is very important for people to know. It's a pattern and about time someone brought this up. Just because it happened a while ago doesn't mean it's not important.
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Bad Form
Dear God- I never thought I would say it, but I agree with Drudge. The political focus on sleaze and innuendo is now so out of control that everyone in public service must be destroyed in the course of their service. McCain is basically an honorable man- this development is both disgusting and uncalled for. It is absolutely unsustainable. Something's got to give.
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Grandpa McCain still getting it on? Good for him!
Not so good it's a lobbyist, though.
Well, after he loses the election he and Dole can do Viagra commercials together.
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McCain retained a lawyer on this,
Bob Bennett I believe, Bill Bennett's brother, sometime back, so this story would have been gone over very carefully by NYT's legal team. Is there fire behind this smoke? Hard to say, but, if more emerges, it may help the Dems because of the ethics angle and really anger the social conservatives among Republicans.
This has been a curious campaign season. If McCain had to step aside, would Huck assume the mantle?
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McCain
John McCain should have been convicted in the Keating scandal.
The fact that he was not is why he beleives he is so smart that everyone else is a fool.Because of his very flawed judgement he continues to make very stupid and elementry mistakes like underestmating the power of viginas and the fact that it has started wars and destroyed socities for centuries.
"power in a headstrong man spells folly, and such a man is peril to the state"
as Abe Lincoln stated any man can overcome adversity but if you want to test his character give him power.
The fact that Warren Jeff could operate in his state so long speaks volumes about his character.
"Hero" I think not.Sinner, Bogot,hypocrit and pathalogical liar
seems far more appropriate.
Stay tuned ,there will be plenty more to come
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Keating Five Canard
Keating Five is a prime reason why McCain has been so adamant against the power and money in Washington. He attended the meeting at the behest of the Senior Senator from Arizona. The Keating five were four democrats and McCain. McCain was kept in the thing in order to keep it bipartisan, and he was cleared of any wrong doing other than listening to the senior senator of his delegation during his first term in office and following protocols.
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The Campaign Says...
I was surprised by the response; it is not really a denial: the strongest it reads is "There is nothing in this story to suggest that John McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career." Perhaps this is a way to duck out of the way, trying not to even dignify such a thing with a response, but wouldn't you want to be more emphatic? This says to me "perhaps something did occur, but we think there was nothing wrong about it."
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perhaps Karl Rove was correct back in 2000 about McCain
Back in 2000 when the whispering campaign was waged again McCain in the run up to the South Carolina primary, we always assumed stories of an "illegitimate brown baby" were in reference to his adopted Bangladeshi child. But maybe McCain has fathered actual illegitimate brown babies - perhaps some that have gone on to grow up and cross our porous borders, take our jobs, and plot terrorist attacks against us on our own soil. Oh why, oh why didn't the Republicans JoinRudy.com?