Finally… a Republican sex scandal involving a man and a woman.
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That’s actually a pretty funny comment. But I want to hear some analysis. If this turns out to be true, what are the potential ramifications, if any?
Is it just me, or does she look like she’s from Whoville?
The scandal does not really meet the GOP standards but if the Times is publishing this bastardized account then my guess is there is a lot more to this they could not say.
Or maybe there is nothing there at all… Unless this really blows up it won’t mean anything because of the time it was released.
Find a stained dress somewhere wingnuts.
Knock yourselves out.
You keep saying you don’t like the guy.
THIS is fucking SIDE-SPLITTING funny…
…how many weasel-ly contortions are the troll-fucks gonna go through to spin THIS one.
No “It’s OK If You’re A Republican” this time.
How’s THAT for “Sanctity of Marriage” asswipes.
FUCK this is rich…
…what NEXT??????
Doesn’t she look like the Calista Flockheart character in “Brothers and Sisters”…
…at least THAT Senator was SINGLE!
Bwa haaa haaa….
@5, What is funny? Nothing’s been proven yet. Just like when you libs yap about how that fat, ex-priest, pedophile host down in SF “hasn’t been proven guilty of anything yet!” Now you have to say the same thing about McCain.
BTW, I like his taste in women, but I don’t like her taste in men.
Yeah…
YOU’RE not a troll huh, fathead.
Fuck off.
You assholes have been pumping the SHIT out of ANY insinuation or ALLEGATION of impropriety by any public official who identifies as a Democrat for the last THIRTY years.
We are sick and FUCKING tired of your blatant hypocrisy and HOLIER-THAN-THOU attitudes.
ALL you motherfuckers.
Well guess what…we’re ALL fucking sinners. Even YOU asswipes. Just don’t go holding US to some moral standard you can’t keep to yourself.
Payback’s a bitch ain’t it?
OH!
And NOW we find out he may have tried to job the FCC for one of her clients…
…how much better is this gonna get?
Hmmm…one or two pints of “Cherry Garcia”…hmmmm…got enough popcorn I think…
She was 32. He was 63. So she wasn’t QUITE half his age.
Heyyyyyy….
REPUBLICAN Congressman Bob Ney just got out of jail!
Cool!
HEY GOLDY YOU LOST YOUR FUCKIN JOB AND THE ONLY DATE YOU CAN GET IS WITH MARY PALM.
OH AND HOW COME WE DONT HEAR ABOUT THE OBAMA BITCH.FOR THE 1ST TIME IN MY ADULT LIVE IM PROUD OF MY COUNTRY.HEY SHE CAN GO BACK TO HER HOMR LAND IF SHE WANTS AND TAKE THAT GAS BAG OF A HUSBAND WITH HER.OH YES WE CAN
Too bad McCain is not a democrat.. that way he could get away with rape.
Looks like John Boy’s got some splanin’ to do…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23263742/
We all know he fools around – in the GOP that’s okay – and for once – we see there is at least one straight republican – so I guess that’s good news for the idiots on the right indeed.
Of course since Laura Bush got away with killing a guy – and the Bush Twins got away with DUI (like their Daddy) and since GW Bush got away with going AWOL – we know that the GOP doesn’t hold their own accountable.
GOP = double standard.
And that’s why we’re kicking their cowardly asses.
And yet ANOTHER GOP scandal – this asshole was out raising money for Johnboy – I guess all that shit about immigration is just that – shit. It’s a smoke screen for racism against Hispanics.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....BV5RJR.DTL
Bye Bye GOP, hello GOP-lite.
Mexican is a race??
“He is essentially an honorable person,” said William P. Cheshire, a friend of Mr. McCain who as editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic defended him during the Keating Five scandal. “But he can be imprudent.”
That’s a hell of a ringing endorsement. And what’s her last name? Isaman? Perhaps she isn’tawoman after all?
@19
Grover Norquist doesn’t believe in government, so of course he wouldn’t care about work permits and the like.
I wonder if Huckabee can score some points with this one?
@7 If he wasn’t fucking her, he’s too stupid to be president.
We don’t need a president who has platonic relationships with female lobbyists 31 years younger than him. We need someone who still has a functioning pair of balls.
@9 “Well guess what…we’re ALL fucking sinners.”
I’m not so sure. It’s possible he didn’t fuck her, even though he has a history of cheating on his wives. I see that as a problem.
Although she does look a lot like the types who fuck their way up the corporate ladder.
@13 I’ll bet he could get a date with Vicki! She looks like the type who would fuck a Democrat if she had a client who needs a plug.
Look at the bright side, Repubs — at least he wasn’t getting sucked off by a page.
So far as we know.
@21 Yeah — you Master Race Republicans consider them inferior, remember?
Don’t despair, wingnuts, you still have one alternative left: The minister who lets rapists out of jail to kill women and covers up for his dog-lynching son.
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I wonder if Johnboy’s bimbo eruption can breathe new life into The Huck’s moribund campaign?
Sooooo…literally..in bed…with a lobbyist.
Oh this is fun.
Now if she is also found to be in bed with Osama bin Laden, then McCain….will still be the Republican candidate. Just as long as he is against abor-shay-unnnn, and for continuing the end of the death tax.
Did I mention this is fun?
Huckleberry”s MAD, Rog…and hhe’s NOT gonna take it anymore!
He’ll show’em. Yes he will!
Seriously…this will get much, much better.
Oh gosh, could it be time for>>>>drum roll please:
Jeb for President.
BAHAHAAAAAA.
I wonder how much Rush Limbaugh will pay for that lobbyists John McCain stained dress?
After all, she is a lobbyist. EVERYTHING is for sale.
I promise every Republican on this board that I am going to mention this over and over and over and over until November,
Call it the busdrivermike pledge.
HEY REJAX TIME TO SEND THE WIFE OUT ON THE STREET THE RENT IS DUE LOssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssER
Q..How much vodka does it require for Carol Channing to screw dorf?
A. No vodka, just new FCC rules.
fun fun fun fun fun fun fun.
OH AND SEND GOLDY WITH HER HE NEEDS TO PAY THE RENT TO.
Remember Republicans!
The eleventh commandment: thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Now get on your knees. The line starts behind the blonde.
fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
Oh…let’s see…
Does ME=Puddyprick?
Hmmmmmm….
Ms. Rujax can suck-start a Harley.
She’s tougher than BOTH of us put together.
She’ll effin’ hollow your pansy ass OUT with a stap-on.
Be real careful buster…
…I’m just sayin’.
REJAX CAN SHE SUCK A GOLF BALL THRU 50 FEET OF GARDEN HOSE. JUST ASKIN.IF NOT CAN SHE SUCK THE CHROME OFF A BUMPER HITCH. JUST ASKIN.
“REJAX CAN SHE SUCK A GOLF BALL THRU 50 FEET OF GARDEN HOSE.”
If she can’t, Dorf McCain knows someone who can. He knows someone who can suck hard enough to make him signal “touchdown”,
fun fun fun fun fun
I wonder if the Repugs are gonna try to get HairBoy Romney to “unsuspend” his campaign.
Not that it will matter.
GOP=Toast
After the S&L shit and the Clinton crap and ST. John can’t keep it in his pants.
Now THAT’s effin Presidential aaaahhhh…timber(?)….wood…ahhh fergit it. ROTFLMAO
All over the media tomorrow.
St. John’s goin’ fukkin’ BALLISTIC right about now!
I was expecting to hear all sorts of comments about the McCain adultery story, with a bunch of lame defenses from the Republicans telling us how this is somehow different from the situation when they told us all about how it was really about “character”.
And, I was ready to jump in with pompous comments about how we said it was irrelavent then, and that we should consider it irrelavent now, and that the only real question is whether Senator McCain inappropriately used his influence to help this lobbyist.
But Goldy’s headline is just too funny. Yes, considering what has been coming out (take that however you wish) of the Republican party, the fact that it involves a woman (of legal age, no less!) is probably good news for them.
And even better, look, ma! No adam’s apple! Although considering his wife, I think this is a step down for him.
It is time for the Republicans to bring out Alan Keyes for a re-match against Barack Obama. Remember the last time Obama’s opponent had to be replaced due to a sex scandal?
@40 pathetic
Thanks Goldy, Interesting. Understand that it’s out on the msnbc feeds already too.
I never realized that his wife had gone into the investment with Keating, initially. Or the business with the FCC. Wonder why NYT waited until so late in the day to publish – campaign wise.
Nearly all of my family comes from Arizona, I moved from Phx to Seattle in 1970 @ Age18 and had to wait til Age21 to vote. Not a one of the family have any nice words to say about McCain, even the staunch Republicans. 3 of them even switched over to declare themselves Dems this time & it’s NOT to play games with the party ticket either! Guess that’s why I found the piece so interesting trying to figure out why they don’t like him so much.
@42 Typical — stupid wingnut can’t spell “too”.
Anything over 1 syllable and/or 2 letters is beyond their intellectual capacity.
@52 First bright idea a Republican’s had. Oh wait, I forgot — Richard is a Democrat now. Along with everyone else.
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This is probably a prime spot to place this for all those old timers. A ‘born & bread’ Seattlite sent it to me saying:
“It is still a riot, for us growing up in Seattle. Our favorite Seattle Son!!!”
Stan Boreson sings ‘I Just Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore’
http://www.heraldnet.com/artic...../283841756
Stan Boreson did “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” and he’s always given me such a good laugh. I love the guy!
allegations of sexual impropriety is not the story here, as there are denials from both sides and no evidence. if that were the story, it wouldnt have been the NYT that broke it.
the issue is that at that point he was campaigning as the white knight crusader against lobbyist influence while spending lots of time both privately and publicly with a lobbyist that was representing a client that had business before his committee — while also accepting large campaign contributions and private jet trips (escorted by lady in question) from same.
i’d expect more on this, as the heat is already turning back on the NYT for printing it, the spin being it’s just a baseless “affair” story — which it isn’t. “smear job” were the words the macdaddy used to describe it tonight. there also appears to be some question as well as to why the NYT didnt run it back in december. could be interesting, this one.
meanwhile…
the Bill O’Reilly “lynching party” story is getting mad traction, with sites linking it getting thousands of hits and hundreds of comments. keith did a nice piece on it last night on “countdown” — this one could be interesting too.
I guess McCain kept his folks up working Fast & Furious!
McCain: Reports on lobbyist a ‘smear’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....n_lobbyist
“TOLEDO, Ohio – Sen. John McCain, responding to published reports about his relationship with a lobbyist, says he “will not allow a smear campaign” to distract from his presidential campaign. [snipped]
Hey righties – where are you? Awfully quiet about this little gem aren’t you. Go ahead and stick your heads in the sand – maybe it will all work out. Sure it will. Tell yourself that lie. HE HE!
ahhh it does get thicker…
after receiving 20k in contributions from her client, he wrote a letter to the FCC asking for urgent consideration in a case they were reviewing for said client. the head of the FCC was rather taken aback by that, particularly the timing of said request. curiouser and curiouser.
as to the NYT publishing it, word had gone around town about them digging on this one for so long that the new republic was about to write a story on whether or not the NYT was going to publish it.
saw a mccain talking points guy on CNN just now repeating the “smear” mantra. oddly enough he had a ready answer for all the little details that the cnn gal pitched at him, including “it’s important not to look at the events back in 2000 through the prism of 2008 laws” as a response to mccain taking four trips on the aforementioned client’s private jet. hmmmm.
Who said lobbyists are prostitutes?
http://matthewyglesias.theatla.....iseman.php
Obviously, I don’t know whether or not McCain had sex with Iseman. I suppose by “what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” standards, he didn’t even deny having had sex with Iseman. Certainly it’d be a bit rich of McCain to get outraged that anyone would even suggest that he might engage in sexual improprieties. After all, it’s well known that he repeatedly cheated on his first wife Carol, of a number of years, with a variety of women, before eventually dumping her for a much-younger heiress whose family fortune was able to help finance his political career. That’s well known, I should say, except to the electorate, who would probably find that this sort of behavior detracts from McCain’s “character” appeal.
Meanwhile, there’s all this stuff Salter doesn’t deny (because, again, it’s true) about McCain’s questionable ethics. He wrote “letters to government regulators on behalf of the [Iseman’s] client,” he “often flew on the corporate jets of business executives seeking his support,” he resigned as head of a non-profit when “news reports disclosed that the group was tapping the same kinds of unlimited corporate contributions he opposed, including those from companies seeking his favor,” his Senate office and his campaign are run by corporate lobbyists, etc.
h/t Atrios
Lefties: What this story did was coalesce the conservative right pundits for him. I wonder if the NY Times thought about this when they decided to hold the story in December? Or when they selected McCain as their choice along with Heilary and publish this story? We on the right watch the hypocrisy of the liberal MSM when they publish their “Jayson Blair-like” stories.
BTW lefties you missed a piece. The letters written by McCain are for policies he’s supported all through his life. This is the comedy of it.
How many times has Goldy ran with a story only later to be proven it’s false. His previous “masterpiece”? Just think of “Boss” Esser. Story proven to be false. McCain won. Easily.
Now the flying on corp jets questionable. My only problem here.
But I ask you liberals, isn’t this a double standard like most things you all like to bring up? Railing on corporate lobbyists when your candidates take big $$$ from them. Heilary and somewhat Obama? Didn’t John Edwards come under fire for railing against finance companies foreclosing mortgages and then having his hand in the cookie jar. Nary a peep from the 16%ers.
I don’t think the McCain thing matters much. Kinda reminds me of those lawyers in Maine back in 2000 that tried to defame Bush with some drunk driving stuff. Didn’t work. About as important as Obama’s little plagaism gaff or Michelle Obama’s “finaly proud of my country” comments. Even Bill O’Reilly didn’t think that shit was important.
In a week, we’ll all be on to something else. Maybe Hillary has an in-grown toenail or something equally sinister.
Two important things about this story:
Check out McCains’s non-denial denial and also pay close attention to the lobbyist associations. She was a telecom lobbyist spending a lot of time with a Senator (McCain) who sits on the committee overseeing telecoms.
Also, check out the WAPO story on how McCain’s close aides were uncomfortable with this relationship and the backstory on how McCain tried to kill this story in December – but it was vetted by the lawyers and came out because other news outlets were on it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....98_pf.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00800.html
nice letter he wrote for the lobbyist’s client who had just contributed 20k and was flyin he and the lady around on their jet from back then:
Following are a letter dated Dec. 10, 1999, from Senator John McCain to William E. Kennard, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and excerpts from the replies of Mr. Kennard and Commissioner Gloria Tristani:
Mr. McCain’s Letter
On Nov. 17, I wrote you expressing concern over the protracted pendency of the pending applications for assignment of licenses of WQEX-TV and WPCB-TV, Pittsburgh, Pa. I requested that the commission take final action on these applications at its open meeting in December, if it had not acted on them in the intention pursuant to the notation voting process. I enclose a copy of this letter for your reference.
I have in hand a copy of the public notice setting out the agenda for the commission’s open meeting on Dec. 15. These applications are not listed for consideration. Nor has my public notice yet been issued indicating that the commission has taken final action on these applications pursuant to the notation voting process.
In light of these considerations, I respectfully request that each member of the commission advise me, in writing no later than close of business on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1999, whether you have already acted upon these applications in the course of the notation voting process. If your answer to the latter question is no, please state further whether you will, or will not, be prepared to act on these applications at the open meeting on Dec. 15. If your answer to both of the proceeding questions is no, please explain why.
The sole purpose of this request is to secure final action on a matter that has now been pending for over two years. I emphasize that my purpose is not to suggest in any way how you should vote — merely that you vote. In order to assure that no oral ex parte communications on the merits of these applications take place, I will not entertain any oral responses of any kind to this letter.
This letter is not written to obtain favorable disposition of any matter on behalf of any party to any proceeding before the commission. Please treat this letter in compliance with all applicable substantive and procedural rules.
Mr. Kennard’s Reply
As you know, this application raises important and very difficult policy issues. I wholeheartedly agree that prompter commission action on this matter would have been preferable.
Your letter, however, comes at a sensitive time in the deliberative process as the individual commissioners finalize their views and their votes on this matter. I must respectfully note that it is highly unusual for the commissioners to be asked to publicly announce their voting status on a matter that is still pending. I am concerned that inquiries concerning the individual deliberations of each commissioner could have procedural and substantive impacts on the commission’s deliberations and, thus, on the due process rights of the parties.
Ms. Tristani’s Reply
Respectfully, I cannot comply with your request. In order to preserve the integrity of our processes, it is my practice not to publicly disclose whether I have voted or when I will be voting on items in restricted proceedings prior to their adoption by the full commission.
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Rujax! all over: When you post something credible, I’ll debate you. Until then you are still the “KING OF THE DULL KNIVES”!
@67: Politically incorrect – I think Mr. Straight talk, no lobbyists and anti-corruption is now mortally wounded (sudddenly, the Keating 5 seems more in character as part of a pattern instead of an aberation).
McCain is also in trouble with the FEC for his duplicitous loan and trying to get out of the elections rules HE WROTE for federal matching funds.
Hypocrisy is the knife that stabs deepest. This makes Edward’s haircut look stylish.
Like the puddyprick’s hero always says “It’s goood to be King.”
BTW-Not fair that puddyprick is holding me to a higher standard than he holds himself. (laughs up sleeve)
I guess the “16%ers” really ARE the approvers of the boy king. Or was it 17%…mercy!…I get SOOOOO confused these days.
Rujax! have you been paying attention? Where did I say McCain is my candidate?
URL?
Citation?
Now expect a Clueless Idiot comment soon.
Oops… that was a stupid question. Rujax! and attention deficit – two peas in a pod.
I used to love it when Charles Pierce used to call him “C+ Augustus”.
Rujax! talking to yourself again (laughs up sleeve)?
There are psychotropic drugs for that condition.
Back on topic. As I said before, there are strange happenings here between the NY Times and their backing of McCain.
Nahhhh….
I know your candidate is Benny Hinn.
Hey Rujax! I like that name PuddyPrick. It explains my God given gift to a tee and it has a double meaning.
Maybe I’ll change my name to that.
Yeah… That’s the Ticket.
Yeah fuckhead the Times held the story for two MONTHS.
McCain’s handlers ccouldn’t get them to staunch it. This thing (AND the campaign finance mess) will be bleeding all over the news for another two weeks.
Huckleberry thinks he’s got another miracle and the Moron wishes he hadn’t dropped out.
Vultures feeding on the carcass…
Nice little Party y’all got there.
Yer welcome, asshole.
Buy me lunch.
This was known back in October 2007 Rujax! So the NY Times continued to churn this. I just read this was known back in 2000 too.
DumASS!
Buy you lunch?
Hmmm… That’s a tough one. We don’t exactly see eye to eye!
So you guys are REALLY trouble, craphead.
Your candidates suck…you got no program…no bullpen…no bench…
Good times.
I’m down with it if you are.
Shit…I’ll buy.
If I understand this correctly – the cowardly right seeks to make this about WHEN the Times knew about McCain’s affair – as if THAT makes it okay to have an affair with a lobbyist – no wonder these idiots vote for Bush. They simply don’t know right from wrong.
@71
Time will tell, correctnotright. We’ll know for sure in November.
I don’t like his politics. I wouldn’t vote for him with a gun to my head; but…a 62 year old man and a 30 year old lobbiest?!?! HE”S MY HERO!
Whether or not anything inappropriate occurred, you must admit the lobbyist is better looking than his zombie-droid-stepford wife. She must spend a 3rd world country’s GNP on eyeliner every week. Scary, scary.
I first voted in California in 1972. In those days, California had a closed primary. You had to give a party preference when you registered to vote, or you couldn’t vote in that party’s primary. If you “declined to state” a party preference, no voting for you in partisan primary races. This seemed perfectly normal to me. Then, in 1974, I moved to Washington, with its open primary. This seemed weird, but I figured it might be a good thing if some states had open primaries and some states closed.
There was a woman I used to work with, and if I wanted to get her going, all I had to do was mention closed primaries. She would just go bonkers over the idea that you couldn’t vote for whomever you wanted on primary day.
I fear some in Washington may never warm to the idea of a closed primary. But, like I say, it makes prefect sense to me.