Didn't he cheat on his 1st wife a bunch with this wife? Or was cheating on the 2nd wife with the 3rd wife? I can never remember.

He has never violated the public trust

Yeah right, John.  Keating Five?

Mana from heaven.

Todd yes it may unite conservatives, but at the cost of losing independents.

The more they freak out, the more they're worried.

I just might have to listen to Rush tomorrow.

Will it be circle the wagons around McCain because now the liberal media is attacking him?

Or will it be "I told you so, this guy is no good".

Strictly as a political observer, I'm actually dying of curiosity.

BTW... I generally use Lucianne.com as my point of reference for what the nutty right is thinking.

The current thread there is about 1/3 vs. 1/3 vs. 1/3 http://lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum= 386818

1/3 are bashing the "Slimes"
1/3 are saying I told you so and having a weird scadenfreude moment of their own
1/3 are crying

non denial, denial.  1973 all over again.

I wonder what Mitt Romney is thinking tonight.

g ving the conservatives another chance to rally around yet another insurgent white knight to "save McCain" would be bad for your team, no?

It's a crappy story, in that its subject wanders. Are they insinuating he had an affair ? Otherwise the nuances of this will be lost on people.

Mrs. McCain would not be so proud now.

Send me right to a John Edwards quote! God how I miss his truth to power! His fire! His fight!

WE Still need what John Edwards campaigned on!

Progressive Blue

Run a clean campaign?  Yeah, not like their throwing a smear job at Obama's wife or anything...

What a bastard...  Throws crap at people's faces, then complains when someone has the audacity to let out a fart in his general direction...

Thanks,

Mike

And not just any attorney:

Look who it is.  

This is Day One.

Weekend stories will include what telecom bills he advocated during that time period and the like.  This is going to be a long story -- there's a lot of very delicate and careful phrasing in the NY Times piece.

Cindy McCain:  Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

This story and awful hit-jobs does not make a difference in my judgment of McCain when I go to the polls.

Ha ha ha.  Now it's reached the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002898. html?hpid=topnews

Did you notice what Obama didn't do when that psuedo-plagarism story broke? Deny everything and be outraged, OUTRAGED at the accusation.

Worst possible thing you can do with a story like this. Worst. Possible. Thing.

May be Mrs. McCain will not be so smug now.  She now lives in a glass house and will not dare throwing a stone

Clinton, too, was wise enough, when the 5 million loan thing came out, to own it right away. It's politics 101 in the post-Nixon era. It's ALWAYS the cover-up that kills.

I could care less if he had an affair but -- John, I'm disappointed. I thought you were smarter than this.

wow

maybe obama will beat mccain afterall.

the media has probably signaled who they would back in the general with this story.

it is an innuendo story but they ran it anyway and followed it up with olberman , cnn doing breathless breaking news on it.

compare it to the national press reaction to rezko , that story was burning in chicago making headline after headline in statewide papers for weeks, local tv and the msm refused to pick it up until clinton said it at the debate.

however spiking it for the primaries showed they wanted to help mccain in the republican primary , romney would have his head in the crapper now.

just a theory.

makes me feel better about obama's chances.

story is a lot of innuendo but still ran anyway.

We have the internet, my friend. Links are fine.

...McCain is screwed.

I really think that people are overblowing this, to be honest.

I mean, I think it looks great as a "Look at what bad judgment he has", and point to Keating and Iraq and, there you go, history of bad judgment.

But unless some more comes out about this alleged "affair", I'm just not sure how much damage this really does to him.

Besides, aren't countless cheating Republicans voted in all the time?  Not only that, once Clinton's affair became public, he still managed to finish his presidency with 60% favorability.  I just don't think this ends McCain's campaign as some others around the blogosphere seem to think.

This just can't be true, I'm sorry but Mr. Clean, literally in bed with a lobbyist, I mean seriously if this has legs this could end up being the ultimate case of corruption (less serious but more memorable than Jefferson or Cunningham)-- this is Foley (protector of Children) emailing minors bad in terms of hypocrisy (less serious but Mccain's far more of a national figure).

And I actually got the point from a freeper watching with giggles as they kicked it around.

What it might be is a very good opportunity to see the infamous temper of John McCain flare up!

but at the very least this story takes the heat off Obama for awhile.

McCain trying to be the bastion of "ethics" trying to slam Obama for considering not taking public campaign finance reform looks kind of silly right now.

IMO, McCain was involved in a WAY WORSE SCANDAL than Obama's Rezko, etc with the Keating Five scandal.

A Washington Post story just came out about it too. It's actually a bit more damaging because it lists specific incidents - particularly a cable TV deal in Pittsburgh - where McCain may have inappropriately lobbied the FCC on behalf of Vicki Iseman's client. McCain denies any wrongdoing, but there may be a lot more to this story than sex with a lobbyist.

It's also interesting that the Washington Post went ahead with this story the same night the Times came out with its piece. Clearly, national political reporters have been sitting on this for a long time.

This is a big problem for McCain. The sex scandal part does not seem to big of a deal to most of us but Bay Buchanan insisted this evening that the right wing (the evangelical part) will not be happy with learning about his infidelity.

For everyone else, the problem is the lobbyist relationships. Was there quid pro quo, we will see.

Things like this are one reason Clinton will hang in there to see what March 4th brings. She's invested a hundred million dollars of her and her supporters' money. Rather than just get up and walk away, she hopes that a disaster like this will strike Obama.

It's an unlikely possibility, but not an impossible one.

It takes the heat off him from McCain for his "pledge" to take public campaign finance reform.  McCain looks a little hypocritical for trying to act "holier than thou".

Also, a potential sex scandel reminds folks about Bill's indiscretions in the 90's.

Plus it may take less heat on Obama when the Rezko trial gets into the news.

I have one question for the Republicans:

"WHAT WILL WE TELL THE CHILDREN?!?!"

Lol.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002898_ pf.html

A few new details about the extent of the lobbying.

Somewhere, in a dark room, Mitt Romney is alone, with only bottles of scotch for friends.

The McCain campaign is doing exactly the right thing: coming out swinging against the "liberals" at the NYT without catching their breath. For the first time, all the radio wingnuts are coming to John's defense. I think they could end up turning this thing into a plus; like when John Edwards managed to turn Coulter's "fag" comment into a big fundraiser for him.

It's kind of a boring story anyway with too many "unsourced" comments for our side to really to use as ammunition.

Even if McCain is their nominee, the GOP doesn't want to lose, and they are well heeled in fight-club politics.