McCain Influencing Tanker Deal?

In my opinion he had. Even after Boeing announced great earnings, people questioned how many billions in revenue Boeing would lose without the KC-45 tanker deal. In the early 2000s, McCain was the senator who killed the first KC-767 deal to lease a hundred of them. Why? To him, he says it does not provide him with the best value for the taxpayer. Really? Airbus’s tanker is more expensive, it is based on the A330 which costs more than the 767, but carries more fuel. The air force also ranked the Boeing tanker more survivable. Does John McCain want planes to drop out of the sky faster? I hope not. Even then, in his current bid for the presidency, he has lobbyists that once worked for EADS in the first deal. In my opinion, John McCain had influence in this new tanker deal and ever since his relations with Boeing went sour, he has rooted the other candidate. The best tanker for America is the KC-767 from Boeing. The best tanker for other countries is the KC-30. We should build American tankers built by American people, and built by an experienced American company in th tanker industry. Again, this is my opinion on the tanker deal, I hope that Boeing can get an appeal, but that looks unlikely unfortunately.

Source: Boeing