Andrea Mitchell continues to push it: On MSNBC Live, Andrea Mitchell failed to challenge Republican strategist Trent Duffy’s false claim that Sen. John McCain “was one of the first to call for Secretary Rumsfeld’s resignation.” In fact, as his campaign itself has reportedly admitted, McCain did not call for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation. […]
John McCain gets another pass from some really bad news: A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center. Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that […]
McCain is such a straight and honest guy, really: Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign […]
That’s not the words of some pundit or blogger, that is the word from past and present GOP leadership: Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money. The double shot of bad news had one […]
Really – this isn’t just a coincidence: Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the […]
For someone who sure hates lobbyists, he just loves surrounding himself by them: Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans – the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race may not be Pennsylvania […]
I love how everyone always refers to McCain as a “maverick”. Is aligning himself with the GOP on a majority of issues a maverick? Today’s Washington Post gives us the answer, by the family the term Maverick was branded for: Arizona Sen. John McCain happily donned the “maverick” mantle in 2000 as he climbed aboard […]
There was so much talk the other night when Obama was asked about Farrakhan supporting him. I wonder if the media will now focus on McCain’s endorsement problem: Calling Pastor John Hagee a “bigot,” the conservative Catholic League is calling for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to denounce/renounce/reject his endorsement Wednesday. With a Youtube link to […]
The rumors are flying that it could be true: Josh Romney, one of former Gov. Mitt Romney’s five sons, says it’s “possible” his father may rejoin the race for the White House, either as a vice presidential candidate or seek to become the Republican Party’s standard bearer if the campaign of Sen. John McCain falters. […]
Not only do we have McCain himself contradicting his defense, now we got another person involved doing so: Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf. […]