Mccains Cronies

All a Dream -- Like Dallas

David Paulsen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics


David Paulsen

"Why don't we convince the voters," he suggested, "that the Republican Party wasn't founded in the 1850s, but was born just last month, when Sarah Palin came on-stage!"

McCain's Cronies: Gambling Man McCain Or Self-Dealing Cronyman Rick Davis?

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics


Christy Hardin Smith

McCain's campaign is infested with lobbyists from top to bottom, all of whom have used their connection to McCain to form a nexus of client relationships at McCain's intersection of power and influence inside the Beltway.

John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

We once again have a Republican nominee who is a war hero, personable and engaging, with a long Senate career, who is so out of sync with the times that his campaign feels stillborn. It's Doleja vu all over again.

John McCain's Lobbyists (the list)

Tom Matzzie | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics


Tom Matzzie

John McCain has 118 lobbyists either working or raising money for him. So far, he's fired only three of them.

Open Letter to John McCain's Campaign

David Donnelly | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics


David Donnelly

With 115 lobbyists raising money for or staffing your campaign, we believe that last weekend's revelations about two staff members' work promoting the military junta in Myanmar are just the tip of the iceberg.

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

McCain's Cronies: Busting Media Myths On McCain's Lobbyist Hypocrisy

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics


Christy Hardin Smith

Pretending that McCain has clean hands when his highest-ranking advisors are shoveling the muck is both illogical and dishonest. And the media knows it.

McCain's Cronies: Charlie Black And Big Tobacco

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics


Christy Hardin Smith

How exactly does senior campaign advisor Charlie Black divorce his tobacco lobbyist insider knowledge from his political advisor campaign guru self?