By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago
VIENNA, Ohio - John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.
Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city. Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways.
It's a remarkable dichotomy echoed throughout the Republican establishment, as a party that's held the White House for the past eight years tries to retain its grip in what has shaped up as a change election.
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McCain has long considered himself a political maverick, and there's no doubt that the Arizona senator has bucked the system — especially later in his career.
A guy who was so close to the establishment that he once had his own number in the Keating Five scandal, criticized by Senate colleagues for showing poor judgment in helping the man linked to the most prominent failure of the '80s-era savings and loan debacle.
Yet one who, over time, has challenged the institutions of Congress with campaign finance legislation and other reform measures.A character so prominent in his party he could credibly run for its 2000 presidential nomination was enough of a bipartisan figure that Democrat John Kerry considered McCain as a running mate during the 2004 election.
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Bullshit, it's Keating Five time.
When all else fails, drag out the Kerry's VP lie. Does the media every try to reconcile the fact that
McCain was (and still is) a warmonger in 2004 and Kerry was slamming Bush on his immoral war?