The final report of the Senate Ethics Committee was inaccurate and minimized McCain’s criminality when it stated:
“Sen. McCain exercised poor judgment in intervening with regulators without first inquiring as to the Bank Board’s position in the case in a more routine manner.”

The fact is McCain had been briefed as to the magnitude of the crime prior to his unethical and illegal actions.

The only reason De Concini had more culpability was that he is the one who spoke for the 5 (Keating 5) using the word “We” when asking the regulators to take no enforcement action relative to the known crimes of Keating and the Lincoln Savings and Loan.

McCain has a long history of trying to maintain deniability (similar to GWB) as he breaks every rule and Commandment.

He also has a long history of lying about his prior behaviors, minimizing his wrong doing, and telling completely different stories depending on his audience, whether it is about his behavior and his treatment as a POW, his (adult) life-long history of philandering, or his brief period of bigamy.

Like GWB, he has always relied on impunity for his bad character, lies, corruption, and crimes.
Look at his advisors, not just his economic advisors who are largely responsible for the current economic crisis, but his foreign policy and other advisors. His terrible judgment (most generous interpretation) demonstrated in the choice of advisors would bring certain disaster(s) if he became president. We would be further fleeced by corporations and suffer unimaginable hardship from the many wars of opportunity that he, along with his advisors that brought us Iraq and covert wars around the world want to wage world-wide.

This is not a beauty contest. Pay attention to the content without deterring to whether we are emotionally impressed with the rhetoric.
Enough!!
JK