Is McCain going to end up muddied, if his campaign starts slinging it?

Are not the economy, the Iraq War, energy or immigration real issues?

Doesn't this open up McCain's vulnerabilities and crooked or radical "pals": Keating Five, mob connections (thru Cindy's moneyed family). Also, John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization. It was the U.S. Council for World Freedom. It was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. It was an ultraconservative right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981, when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League, the parent organization, which ADL said, “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and Anti-Semites.”