To be fair, "After reviewing my report, the committee voted on October 23, 1990, to hold a public adjudicatory fact-finding hearing in the matter as to all five senators. This was perhaps the first time the recommendation of a special counsel not to charge a senator was rejected. This was pure politics as the Democrats on the committee did not want to cut McCain loose so that only Democrats would remain in the proceedings. If Senator McCain was not going to be cut loose, in retaliation the Republicans were going to keep Senator Glenn in the proceedings. McCain was the victim of politics, and poor Glenn was held captive to the decision on McCain. So much for nonpartisanship." -- Democratic Keating Investigation Counsel Robert Bennett

BTW, Bob Bennett was also the Democrat lawyer who defended Bill Clinton in the impeachment proceedings, and still strongly believes it was a travesty to include McCain in the Keating affair.

Glenn's role was apparently that his campaign received ,000 in contributions from Keating over the years (this is nothing compared to what McCain got, however). He was never flown to his private island though. I guess POW's trump people that have walked on the moon.

I mean orbit the Earth... sorry.

The most direct cause is McCain promising to push 30 days of Rev. Wright and Ayers ads until Election Day. The Obama Camp directly promised that they would hit the MAD button if that happened, and it took only hours after Palin's speech for them to follow through.

Unfortunately for McCain,"served on a local government education board with a former criminal" isn't quite as bad as "being best friends with a criminal and accepting massive money in exchange covering up his criminal activities", in terms of associations.

You ever get the feeling politics has become fucked beyond belief when they're using terms like mutually assured destruction for dealings between the parties?