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[Gabi Hayes]

42. from a New Republic article cited in the above link:

The entire article is a must read; it is a brutally clear exhibition of John McCain’s deeply ingrained, pathological, self serving dishonesty and soulless backstabbing lack of honor.

Now the thing that most, if not all, have overlooked here is the timing of Charlie Keating’s retort; it is not just that it was before McCain was sworn in as a United States Senator, it was right as Keating was pumping big money into McCain’s general election campaign for his first run at Barry Goldwater’s old Senate seat.

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What kind of man was Charlie Keating buying? A man just like himself; a man who was all ambition and no conscience. A man completely self centered and who had no compunction bleeding senior citizens dry, bullying and berating adversaries and corrupting the process of government. A man like John McCain.


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But the most telling part about John McCain is not that he was centrally involved in the Keating Savings & Loan scandal, many politicians get involved in political corruption scandals. Four others, although to a far lesser extent, were indeed involved alongside McCain in the Keating scandal. As bad as that was, the worse, and telling part about John McCain, was the lying and backstabbing of his friends and associates for the sole reason of saving his own pitiful skin. John Sidney McCain did not hesitate for one split second to plant and twist the shiv in the back of everybody around him, from Charlie Keating himself to his fellow Senators.

can't recommend this page enough.
the comments are excellent, as well.

McCain, was nothing more than the typical hypocritical, lying, backstabbing, delusional swine that characterizes most of the Republican party as it's now constituted, with the possible caveat that he's even more insanely ambitious than the likes of Cruz, Rubio, or the res of the current rat pack.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2008/11/03/mccain-was-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five-and-he-hasnt-changed/