Check this out:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five-6431838

........Since Keating's collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.

They say that if you put five lobsters into a pot and give them a chance to escape, none will be able to do so before you light the fire. Each time a lobster tries to climb over the top, his fellow lobsters will pull him back down. It is the way of lobsters and threatened United States senators.

And, of course, that's the way it is with the Keating Five. You are all battling to save your own hides. So you, McCain, leak to reporters about who did Keating's bidding in pressuring federal regulators to change the rules for Lincoln Savings and Loan.

When the reporters fail to print your tips quickly enough--as in the case of your tip on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle--you call them back and remind them how important it is to get that information in the newspapers.

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If you read the article, you learn that THIS incident, and the way he cavalierly dumped his first wife (horribly injured in a car wreck), are the true measures of the man, not the carefully media crafted image of the maverick warrior hero

Blecch

This was the formal beginning of The Stupid, the reality show government, the ugly, mean, wholely ignorant, braindead, soulless bully, "gotcha" brand of idiocy that now horribly threatens our very existence as a premier nation and the wellbeing of all its citizens.

McCain is no Maverick. He legitimized ballsy cretinism.

He talks out of both sides of his mouth and plays the Flag Waving Patriot act with calculated duplicity.

His grandstanding "glory of Congress and the USA" speech was nauseating and holier than thou. It did not come from genuine passion. It came from the same self-serving drama queen, ain't I the glorious patriot bullshit persona that thought Palin was a smart idea to combat the brilliance of a youthful, bright, biracial man of compassion, hope and integrity.

he's a spineless coward like the ither repugs who put party over country.