NYT Slimes McCain In Twisted Game of Political Truth or Dare

Anyone who has ever read my stuff knows that I am not McCain fan. There are two things that I’d never say about John McCain. The first being that he isn’t brave. The other being that he’s a liar because he’s neither. I do believe that sometimes his political loyalties get misplaced and because of that I’m not happy with his being the GOP’s eventual nominee.

But what the New York Times published in their fish wrapper this morning goes beyond taste.

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.

Senator McCain has gone on the record this morning to debunk these allegations. As I said above, one of the things that I can say for sure about Senator McCain is that he’s honest. Honest to a fault sometimes. So if he says it didn’t happen, guess what? It didn’t happen.

That aside, the New York Slimes even dug up what they think is a skeleton from McCain’s closet in the Keating 5 BS. The Senate Majority Council exonerated Senator McCain suggesting that he be removed from the investigation but the majority ignored their own Council for a purely political fishing expedition. McCain was found to not have committed any wrong doing. But does that matter to the Slimes?!? Hell No.

It had been just a decade since an official favor for a friend with regulatory problems had nearly ended Mr. McCain’s political career by ensnaring him in the Keating Five scandal. In the years that followed, he reinvented himself as the scourge of special interests, a crusader for stricter ethics and campaign finance rules, a man of honor chastened by a brush with shame.

The real scandal here is with the Slimes and the ultra leftist rag The New Republic. The Slimes had this information in January before they endorsed McCain just prior to Super “Duper” Tuesday and chose to NOT publish it due to the lack of evidence. It seems that The New Republic had been threatening to do a hit piece on the Slimes for burying the story. – source interview on television

As much as I’m disappointed with the GOP’s choice this year, I cannot sit back and see McCain maligned over false charges and innuendo. For this reason I’ve dropped the Juan MexiCain nickname.

Should Hillary Clinton pull a miracle out of her seat cushion and win her Party’s nomination, I’ll stand by my prior statements and abstain from voting. However, if the choice is McCain or Obama? The vote goes to McCain.

It will be political shenanigans like this hit piece might backfire on the left and irritate enough Conservatives like me enough to back McCain all the way. We’re not to that point yet, but if this story don’t die soon or if there is anything else like it out there floating in those empty caverns between the ears of American liberals, they’d be doing their cause a disservice to bring them up.

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