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.

[Bush gal in LA]

Not even 2004. I believe the ‘’Slimes’’ is talking about something back in 1999...........

[MartinStyles]

obama will walk the WALKKKKKKK

Oh, and again McCain just voted to support repealing the DC gun ban. obama did NOT.

[TigersEye]

As usual, bray, you are lying. I never supported Romney. I never supported Rudy and I never supported McCain.

[MartinStyles]

The socliastic tide is always there, it comes and it goes. We can take a mild wave, or a huge democrat one.

I’ll take the mild one and hope it makes it easier to push back when the pendulum of US politics isn’t so against us.

If we take obama now he’s going to steamroll us so bad everyone except the most extreme poor/union worker will wish it was 1994 all over.

[restornu]

VICKI ISEMAN

[Just mythoughts]

According to Bob Bennett, appearing tonight on Hannity and Colmes, when he (Bob Bennett) was Democrat counsel for the Senate Ethics committee, he investigated McCain for a year and half in re Keating, and recommended to the Committee that McCain be dropped from the ethics investigation. The Democrats on the committee refused, because without the inclusion of McCain, all of the Senators named would have been Democrats.

Bennett also said he was a registered democrat. So way back then Bennett knew and yet does not seem to bother him, and when one looks at McCain's own record he tooo loves to side with liberal democrats.... Bennett did not exactly lend credibility to his own cause...

[e-male]

"If we take obama now he’s going to steamroll us so bad everyone except the most extreme poor/union worker will wish it was 1994 all over." maybe they'll be ready for a conservative by then. HOPEfully, there will be a political party that supports consevatives by then.

[TigersEye]

You're not here to learn anything as far as I can see. It has been fun defending my conservative creds with someone who just signed up today but I'm tired and need to move on. But if you do want to know something about the man you want to put in the WH check this out. If you want to know how the owner of this website feels about McCain read the link below. You may not want to stay here.

John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts... (thread by Jim Robinson)

[MartinStyles]

So.. You expect to lose horribly now to the worst monster in hopes that his socialism will make the people react later against it?

I sure wouldn’t count on that.

[TigersEye]

Oh, I almost forgot. Here's something else about McCain that another FReeper put together in 2000. Just so you know it's not just me.

FR links on McCain's record from Feb. 2000. MrChips collection.

[patriciaruth]

this is the bombshell

This is just the beginning.

[MartinStyles]

hope hussein makes you happier

[Plutarch]

I had predicted February 8th. Was on the 21st, so I was off by 13 days.

(Vanity) Pool: When will the New York Times publish its green light McCain hit piece?

[TigersEye]

Thanks for a mature reply. ;^)

[roamer_1]

Seems to be an influx of new McCain pillow biters...

Nicely done, BTW.

[Republic of Texas]

Did anyone here actually think the MSM would support McCain one second longer than it took to get him the nomination?

It was a setup from the start. They figured him as the easy guy to beat, and dressed him like a Thanksgiving turkey.

[Binghamton_native]

I guess I didn’t see it that way. McCain was not my choice, but, we do ourselves no favors when we are ready to accept a poorly sourced (or unsourced) NYT story simply because we don’t like McCain.

[TigersEye]

Thank you. It’s like someone broke open a termite mound. ; )

[Berlin_Freeper]

(((HuckaPING!)))

FReepmail me to be on/off the MIKE HUCKABEE FOR PRESIDENT Ping List.

[tallyhoe]

So who are you going to vote for uh?