Max Boot has a good piece on absurdity of the latest "lobbying scandal" to engulf the McCain campaign:
In other words, McCain (whose campaign I advise on foreign policy issues) was in favor of NATO expansion long before Randy was lobbying on those issues. Anyone who knows either McCain or Scheunemann would laugh at the notion that their support for the embattled democracies of Eastern and Southern Europe is the result of payoffs from those countries.... So what Randy has done is not illegal. It's also not unethical under Senate ethics rules or the more stringent ethics rules of the McCain campaign. Now that the candidate has banned lobbyists from the campaign, Scheunemann has stopped lobbying. Which suggests that there is no story here.
Boot also notes the "lack of outrage over Senator Obama picking a major lobbyist to lead his vice presidential search effort." I'm shocked that the press hasn't dug into that story.