Posted on 02/20/2008 4:49:57 PM PST by Wallaby
Edited on 02/20/2008 5:05:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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, in his offices and aboard 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 clients, 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.
This is a non-story. This will have no effect on McCain’s chances. Neither of these two have said this is true.
now when Bill and Monica were caught, didn't Hill and Friends all say that Presidential sex scandals are all old hat. They ever said Jefferson, FDR and JFK got some strange and no one was hurt. Some even hinted it was traditional. Perhaps Lanny Davis will come out for McCain and just repeat what he said in support of Bill's sexcipades!
Rollins perhaps?
Good grief...I guess this is why Ron Paul stayed in too?
Paris Hilton....shall I go on...:-)
Huckabee said he majored in miracles, is this what he meant?
Michelle Obama's 'proud' comment wounded Obama.
Cindy McCain's looked good retorting to that remark. She looked like she would be a good asset to McCain's campaign.
Payback to Cindy and an attempt to get attention away from how Obama thinks of America.
Just my opinion.
Perdogg - check out the pic in #9. Maybe you missed that one.
Heh. Suuure it is. No sense waiting for some actual, oh what's the word... ~evidence~ or anything, huh?
I don't even see any real allegation that anything improper happened either romantically or ethically. All I see is word salad and buzzword bingo.
One thing is for sure...this WILL get him free media exposure.
Must note that was January 14th.
Is the media really helping Obama with stuff like this so quickly? With McCain’s legendary temper, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him take off the gloves when they go after Obama.
If this is the only thing they have on McCain, I would be very surprised it came out this early.
Best guess? This is a little tidbit. The best is being held to a later date.
Geesh. Glad I wasn’t going to cast my lot with him.
We all know the Dems are worse. But...remember, they aren’t counting on anyone with any kind of morals to vote for them.
They have known about it before Christmas!
Well said.
Transparent hit piece.
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