In whiny piece about establishment shill Obama:

Pro-Obama-lematic Media Coverage
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGMyOWNiM2U4ZDgxMGFmZDJkMDA0MjFhMjBlNjgwODM=&w=MQ==

"And let’s not forget the story in April where the Post wrote about the candidate’s legendary temper, citing a source who is a 9/11 truther and who by all accounts is a few delegates short of capturing the nomination of the Sanity party."

The hyperlink in this sentence goes to the story below, which has more links. I've heard Johnson raise questions about the obvious coverup and mysterious collapse, never yet explained by NIST- is she pushing the plane-swapping theories, or is this a hit job? No direct quote, possibly just an insinuation.:

The Wa Post Smear of McCain
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGY2NzJjZTkwZGM2NWY4ZDRiOGU3MjY1Y2Q5ZjM5NTE=

Ramesh posted an email from McCain staffer Mark Salter on the Washington Post's smear article on McCain's temper. One of the sources for the article is Karen Johnson whom McCain tried to block from a political job in Arizona and who later went on to become a state senator in Arizona. Johnson is actually used in the article's concluding paragraph with this:

One man's bulldozer is another's bully. "I don't think that he forgets anyone who ever opposed him, that he can ever really respect or trust them again," said Karen Johnson, the targeted secretary-turned-state senator. "That goes for people here and overseas."

While Googling her, however, I came across this that makes me question why she's a source for the article. She's a truther:

But legislators who voted against altering the memorial said they believe it needs to represent various viewpoints and feelings about the events leading up to and following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And that, according to Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, includes the still-open possibility that Americans have yet to learn the full story.

"There's many of us," she said, "that believe there's been a cover-up," ranging from who was really behind the attacks to questions about whether what flew into the World Trade Center towers were pilotless drones and the passengers had been taken off beforehand.

"And there's a lot of statements on that 9/11 memorial that reflect a lot of our views that we have about it," Johnson said. "And I think all of those need to be represented."

She also accuses President Bush, and I assume John McCain with his push for immigration reform, of enacting a secret plan to merge the U.S. with Mexico:

A veteran Republican lawmaker is accusing President Bush of pushing a behind-the-scenes agenda that will result in the United States being merged with Mexico and Canada.

Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, said she believes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, being run out of the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce, is little more than a secret plan to end U.S. sovereignty by 2010. And she said Congress is being kept in the dark until the point that it becomes a done deal.

Johnson, who will head the Senate Education Committee this coming session, said the signs already are there, from an “inland port” in Kansas City and construction of a superhighway corridor through Texas to the lack of any real action in building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

And strike-three on her credibility as it relates to John McCain, here she is in a NY Times photograph sitting in front of a file cabinent covered in bumper-stickers. The one with a yellow ribbon and "Bring Them Home Now" makes me think she's not entirely on the same page as John McCain as it relates to the Iraq war."