Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s client, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
Like all Congress-critters, McCain paints himself as a paragon of virtue. The article steps back through his political career and points out contradictions to that image – and what the writers consider an inappropriate peccadillo. Insofar as the election goes it is better for McCain that this come out now rather than later as it will be forgotten by October unless he had a love child.
#26 – neocon wimps have to raise a hand for permission from Rushie-poo to look at anything other than Fox Noise, anyway.
#16 LOL 🙂
Even if McCain had a girlfriend, that should matter little.
Bill Clinton should have told Congress the truth, that his personal life was none of their business, and the same applies to McCain.
“Even if McCain had a girlfriend, that should matter little.
Bill Clinton should have told Congress the truth, that his personal life was none of their business, and the same applies to McCain.”
Oh, come off it. That was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.
To entertain the fantasy that a politician’s behavior in his or her personal life is somehow totally disconnected from his fundamental character, ethics and morals requires believing that someone who will betray his own spouse – the one individual he has the closest, deepest most personal ties and obligations to – will somehow magically become an absolutely honest and truthful Boy Scout to a mass of anonymous strangers who he couldn’t know or care less about? Tell me another one. You’d betray your wife? That means you’d betray anybody.
#34–3HC==too many people are of the opinion that our Washington Politicians are pretty dumb but that they have our best interests at heart. The truth is just the opposite.
Character–is a joke. This is what the brain dead religious right nut bags vote on.
What we should be looking at regardless of character is competency and ability to get things done?
Your first completely naive post I have seen you make.
bobbo – naïve? There are actual, real live politicians who have character and integrity. Not many, no – but they’re not extinct. Dennis Kucinich and Jay Rockefeller are two guys who have never fucked the people and, despite some mistakes, have always done their best to do what they were put into office to do, serve the public.
#36–3HC==my point is that neither you nor I should care about so called character in our political servants. Your repeated position that character is important in such an evaluation is common and very injurious to the GOUSA.
If you were getting surgery==would you want the very best surgeon with the highest recovery rate who cheats on his wife, or the fine upstanding dedicated husband who graduated at the bottom of his class?
Why is politics any different?
Oh, bobbo, bobbo… what are we going to do with you?
Politics? Surgery? WTF??
Since when is a surgeon entrusted with your money? Is a surgeon gonna make some extra cash he has no right to by cutting a different organ? You think honesty is an irrelevant criterion for a job that involves handling tons of strangers’ money, out of sight of said strangers? You think thieves make good armored truck drivers?
¡Ai, caramba!
Re Monica and BC, anyone else caught getting knobbers from a subordinate would be fired/removed from office and castigated by the Lesbian Superiority Movement (esp “NOW”). He was a Democrat politician, so he got a pass.