McCain joins in on the Anti-Semetism. From Ben Smith at Politico, quoting Paul Begala:

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And I think Governor Palin here is making a strategic mistake. This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But 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 ultra conservative, 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.”


Let's not forget: John McCain voted against the Martin Luther King holiday. He likes to call himself a maverick, but 95% of the time he's a right-wing Republican, the kind of guy who sat on the board of groups associated with Jew-haters. And I'm sorry, I don't care if this was in the 1980s. It's not like it was okay to be a racist and an anti-Semite in the 1980s. It wasn't. This isn't ancient history. McCain was already in his mid-40s. He wasn't a young man. If you're associated with racists and anti-Semites in your 40s, it's not a youthful indiscretion.

It probably explains why most of the RKMB'S support the guy though....