Bimbo alert!
Boy, just what ol' Huck has been hopin' for! And maybe why ol' Mitt only "suspended" his campaign?
Hmm...Senator McCain spends a lot of personal time, and *maybe* has affair with, Telecom industry lobbyist, while said senator is active in Telecom industry legislation.
Wellll, at least it's not a scandal about a homosexual affair...with an underage boy...and gerbils...and light bulbs.
His people are denying it of course. Maybe we ought to send McCain to Gitmo and waterboard him until the truth comes out.
This is a story from the NY Times about Sen. John McCain's ethics...his possibly inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist. The NYT had been chasing this story for months and were having internal dissension over whether to run the article. But rival publications (Newsweek, The New Republic and Politico) were hot on the trail and forced their hand.
Why was the NYT dragging its feet with this story? Surely not trying to atone for all those years of pimping the Bill and Monica story?
Or...are we not getting the news because 5 people own ALL the media?
From nytimes.com: "...In 1999 she began showing up so frequently in his offices and at campaign events that staff members took notice. One recalled asking, "Why is she always around?"
....A former campaign adviser described being instructed to keep Ms. Iseman away from the senator at public events, while a Senate aide recalled plans to limit Ms. Iseman's access to his offices.
In interviews, the two former associates said they joined in a series of confrontations with Mr. McCain, warning him that he was risking his campaign and career. Both said Mr. McCain acknowledged behaving inappropriately and pledged to keep his distance from Ms. Iseman. The two associates, who said they had become disillusioned with the senator, spoke independently of each other and provided details that were corroborated by others.
Separately, a top McCain aide met with Ms. Iseman at Union Station in Washington to ask her to stay away from the senator. John Weaver, a former top strategist and now an informal campaign adviser, said in an e-mail message that he arranged the meeting after "a discussion among the campaign leadership" about her.[..]"
Let's see...didn't Viagra come out around 1999?
Looks like the Times wouldn't stick its neck out so far if they didn't know a lot more about the story...at least on this first go round.
And if I am reading correctly, the key sources in this story are Republicans. Are they putting up a sex/corruption story now as a buffer zone against future stories that would be corruption only?
Seriously, if this was just about an 8 year old affair it wouldn't be much...but the fact that Iseman's clients had business before McCain's committee at the same time makes this story important.
Wow...could he literally go to bed with a lobbyist and then push her legislative goals?
How did McCain vote on the impeachment of Clinton, again?
As to the fall out, Hillary probably does not want to go there...we'll have to wait and see if Obama and Michelle find some way to take a few subtle digs at McCain.
There's long been blog rumors about a stifled NYT bimbo story concerning an unspecified candidate...some thought it was about Edwards.
And you know, it would be interesting to find out how many people knew about the existence of the NYT McCain story through blog activity...as opposed to how many would have known about it before blogs came along.
I'd bet the difference would be in the millions. Something to think about...
