For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk [McCain had an affair?]

New York Times ^ | February 21, 2008 | JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON

[Wallaby]

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.

[floriduh voter]

San Fernando Valley. Still have California accent.

[MartinStyles]

Yeah, figured. Well cheer on obama. Just switch over to the D and stand by it if you’re going to support them.

[floriduh voter]

McCain: 50 cent new gas tax instead of drilling in ANWAR.

[TigersEye]

Wanna see McCain on Global Warming? ; )

[MartinStyles]

mccain is bad, but obama..

Again, you support obama all the way by bashing the oppositition.

[TigersEye]

McCain wanted to switch to D.

McCain calls Jeffords' switch lesson for GOP FR May '01

McCain Antics Weary Arizonans in G.O.P. FR June '01

McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004 FR July '01

How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)

McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.

McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats

[HawaiianGecko]

"He got rebuked by the ethics committee for his “bad judgement”.

Of course Bob Bennett, counsel assigned by the Democratic congress to investigate John McCain and his involvement in the Keating five concluded and reported to the Senate that John McCain had absolutely nothing to do with any wrongdoing and that he should be completely removed from the case. PERIOD

He even writes about it in his book 'In the Ring, Trials of a Washington Lawyer' where he says that for the first time in history the Senate did not take the advice of their own counsel and for simply political reasons. PERIOD

Just tonight on national TV he says that the one thing he learned in his eighteen month investigation of John McCain was that he was an honest man. PERIOD

Now, one can spin this how ever they like, but don't think for one single moment that you have more knowledge of the case than Bob Bennett does. DOUBLE PERIOD

 

[Sal]

Show me how obama is better than any of those?

Good campaign slogan: Vote McCain. Obama's no better.

[MartinStyles]

You prefer obama too?

[TigersEye]

John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004

Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP

McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP

[MartinStyles]

Awful sources there.

Anyway, you seem to prefer the democrats in this race.

[Sal]

I despise them both equally and will vote for neither.

[MartinStyles]

Then you vote for obama by not voting for the Republican.

[TigersEye]

Yes, those conservative publications are awful sources. I'm sure you read all that too. You didn't even click on the GOA link did you?

How about McCain/Soros? Maybe you would like that reading?

[bray]

There is NO HONOR in not voting. If he wants to do that it is his business, convincing others to do the same is shameful.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[TigersEye]

I made no suggestion of how anyone should vote. Is your problem the dissemination of information? Like McCain?

[MartinStyles]

I can’t imagine choosing not voting vs voting 90% bad vs the 100% bad.

Give me 90%.

Unless you want to be a martyr somehow and whine later when it all goes to hell when the democrat wins, it doesn’t make any sense.

I sense a lot of wanna-be martyrs.

[Deetes]

“This could be a preemptive attack because the NYT’s knows that Obama did smoke crack and have gay sex. “

They are his base , don’t think it will matter ;-))))))))))

[Sun]

McCain’s supposed to have a news conference tomorrow morning.

More about McCain here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1973781/posts?q=1&;page=1

[bray]

So why are you here??

Pray for W and Our Troops