Ex-Speaker Hastert Rips McCain: Not Conservative, "Allied With Democrats"

Ex-Speaker Hastert Rips McCain: Not Conservative, "Allied With Democrats"

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert questioned John McCain's Republican credentials today, saying he was always known among the GOP as "the undependable vote" in the Senate and always "allied with Democrats."

Hastert, an Illinoisan who is backing McCain rival Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, also had a conference call with reporters earlier in the day in which he said the Arizona senator had changed "after the Keating Five scandal."

McCain was one of five senators implicated in the 1989 Keating Five, a congressional scandal alleging federal regulators were pressured against an investigation of Charles Keating, the former chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Assn.

McCain was cited by the Senate Ethics Committee for "poor judgment" but it recommended no further action.

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