Somebody explain this one to me (via CNN):
On Monday morning, McCain had told reporters that if he can’t convince the American people the United States is succeeding, “then I lose. I lose,” according to the Associated Press.
“We quickly retracted that,” McCain later said of the comment. “I was not allowed to retract it, obviously. I [...]
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MSNBC.com is reporting that McCain has likened his bid to pull out of the public campaign finance system to be exactly the same as what Howard Dean has done in the past. (Now there’s an inspiring example of integrity!)
In any case, perhaps that’s not quite accurate:
Also, McCain dismissed a complaint filed with the FEC today [...]
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The San Francisco Chronicle comments on the real problem that McCain needs to overcome quickly. As previously reported here, it has to do with public campaign financing, the Federal Election Commissions, the Senate, and McCain himself.
Here’s the deal:
McCain secured a $4 million loan for his campaign when he was hurting for money.
If in order to [...]
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As the fallout continues from the NY Time’s piece on McCain’s relationship with lobbyists, and in particular one female lobbyist… Lowell Paxson, the guy that hired Alcalde & Fay’s Vicki Iseman - is contradicting McCain’s sequence of events.
Here it is in a nutshell:
In 1999, McCain, then chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees [...]
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The tawdry part of the NY Time’s story about John McCain and a possible relationship with a female lobbyist is the insinuation that McCain may have had an affair with the woman.
But perhaps the part that warrants further investigation is the less glamorous business of whether McCain might have tried to improperly influence FCC actions [...]
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Ann Coulter has a particularly insightful article at her site, AnnCoulter.com titled “How To Keep Reagan Out of Office”
She points out that the campaign finance laws that are in place today, and that were not in place when Reagan rose to California and then national prominence, greatly restrict good people who would otherwise run for [...]
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Malkin writes over at Hotair.com that McCain’s FEC troubles are a result of his own doing.
We previously commented on this subject.
We said at the time:
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FoxNews is reporting that the Washington Post is raising new questions about McCain’s connections to lobbyists:
The Washington Post details in a story Friday how a number of top McCain campaign advisers — including campaign manager Rick Davis, chief political adviser Charles Black, and senior advisers Steve Schmidt and Mark McKinnon — either have worked as [...]
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J. Matt Barber writes about the possibility of McCain picking J.C. Watts for Vice President.
Now that’s an interesting idea. Watts is a proven conservative.
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Just one question continues to bug me about these allegations that McCain had a relationship with a lobbyist:
Why hire a lawyer? Why hire Bob Bennett, the lawyer who represented Clinton during the Lewinsky Impeachment process?
I don’t quite get it. If there was an affair, that’s not a matter of law. Unlike Clinton’s troubles, McCain is [...]
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