John Aravosis

Holy crap.

I'm listening to the McCain campaign conference call about John McCain's involvement in the Keating Five scandal. McCain's lawyer just said that the Keating Five investigation was "political" as it concerned John McCain. He shouldn't even have been admonished by the Senate, his lawyer says.

Then McCain's lawyer dropped the real bomb.

The Keating Five Investigation was "a political smear job on John [McCain]." WTF? He called Howell Heflin, who led the hearings, a "stooge" of the Democratic machine out to get poor, innocent John McCain.

as we all know the events of the Keating scandal is what lead McCain to become the reformer he is

but if what they are now suggesting is true then as Ben Smith notes:

Dowd also "thinks that the committee went too far in suggesting that McCain's intervention with regulators was poor judgment," Halperin writes.

But if so, what's this giant mistake that transformed McCain into a reformer?

exactly if McCain was the victim of a smear job by democrats, why did he consider this the worst mistake of his life? what did he do that needed reforming?

was there something else we never knew or about?

or

Was the whole reformer angle just a political act all these years?