I dont get it, people would elect a guy that would follow a disastrous course for America,as a whole, because of some centrist rag of a paper?

I am amazed at the level of ignorance and shortsightedness of people. Dont they realise they are embracing the leftist neo-cons and not conservatism? Again?

Pardon me for expressing what is merely a hunch, but
it seems entirely plausible that the neocons and
their friends at the NYT might have planned this
outing to get the conservative talking heads behind
McCain, the “moderate” Republican whom the same paper
praised a few weeks ago for being inclusive and
sensitive on immigration. Since the Times’s editorial
page features neocon columnists, and since the paper
has had very nice things to say about Kristol and
Frum, I assume the two sides have amicable relations
as well as shared interests.

You know, if I was a New York Times reporter,and
I had to write that story I would have gone like
this:

“McCain was keeping company with a lobbyist too
often. Staffers wre worried about it, and since
they lobbyist was female, they pretended to worry
that it was a romantic relationship, to hide the
fact that they thought that it was an influence-
peddling relationship”

Which is what I think it was.  The point what not
what he was doing to the lobbyinst but what he
and the lobbyist were doing to the rest of us.

I love this talk of an “improper” relationship.
She was a lobbyist, for God’s sake,and he was
Mr. Ethical. By definition it was an improper
relationship.

Is not the fact that McCain felt the need to immediately hire Bob Bennett (i.e. Clinton’s “Monicagate” lawyer) enough to, at least, cast doubt on McCain’s veracity with regard to this potential scandal?

In the end, I think John McCain’s candidacy will be sunk, not by this probable scandal, nor by his reputation for having a big mouth and volatile temper, but by the truth about his much vaunted record as a Vietnam POW and “war hero,” and his role in the cover-up of the issue of POWs left behind in Vietnam.  For more information about the real John McCain, please visit the following website:
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

Conservativism’s knee jerk spasm against anything the NYT prints will only help Sen.Sex4fvrs in the short term. This was the the first big salvo against the arrogant little tyrant. More to come........

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Comedian Bill Maher suggests that the McCain people leaked the story about the affair in order to demonstrate that their guy is still vigorous… And don’t worry. The Republicans will all end-up uniting behind McCain and find a way to rationalize it. But the only way he’ll win the general election is under three scenarios: another terrorist attack; a war with Iran; and perhaps the capture of Osama. Otherwise he is going to lose big.

Unless McCain drops dead, he will win in November. No way will folks sit out and allow an Obama presidency, and rightfully so. Wishful thinking otherwise.

Listen up, maggots. John McCain served his country in a tiger cage, or at the very least in a hotel close by, and has earned the god-given right to screw whomever he pleases. That’s why we have a constitution in this country, for god’s sake. If he throws a little something to the slut, well, how else do you think a 64-year-old geezer gets sex? Young blondes don’t give it away.

What’s the fuss? McCain’s present marriage began as an adulterous affair and I understand he had a bad reputation in the Navy as a man who would chase subordinate’s wives.

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY RIGHT-WING TALK-RADIO TALKING HEADS SUCH AS THE BLOWHARD RUSH LIMBAUGH AND THE DREADFUL ANN COULTER DEMONSTRATE SUCH CONTEMPT FOR JOHN MCCAIN.  AFTER ALL, MCCAIN SHARES THEIR PRO-WAR IDEOLOGY TO THE MAX.  PERHAPS APART FROM GIULIANI, NO CANDIDATE HAS EMBRACED THE NEOCONSERVATIVE AGENDA LIKE MCCAIN.  PAT BUCHANAN APTLY DESCRIBES MCCAIN AS “BUSH ON STEROIDS.” IS IT ME OR DO OTHERS SEEM TO NOTICE JOE LIEBERMAN (IND., TEL AVIV) STANDING BEHIND MCCAIN LIKE A PUPPET-MASTER AT EVERY NEWS CONFERENCE?

ravis:

The problem is that since the slut is a lobbyist,
anything that he throws her way is paid for by
taxpayer’s dollars. We do not object his throwing
to her what is rightfully his, but we do at using
what’s ours.

It is not that the slut might have been screwed, but
that we were.

@Paul Gottfried,

I think the talking heads are secretly behind McCain all the way and their talk to the contrary is a smokescreen to help out his chances.  They are behind him 100% as is the New York Times.  How better to help out McCain’s chances then to run a non-story that essentially draws all the attention away from his atrocious voting record.  Isn’t McCain-Feingold the bill that prohibits negative political ads against incumbents?

I don’t think the NYT publication of the lobbyist story was intended as a scheme by the NYT to help McCain rather it was an attempt to save face. TNR was set to go with its own story about NYT’s suppression of the story and one of the reporters working on the lobbyist story at NYT was set to leave the paper for the Washington Post who was publishing their own story on this affair. This forced the NYT’s hand. Besides McCain has pretty much the GOP nomination locked up anyway so publishing it now makes little difference politically.

Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest of neocons talking heads know the NYT piece wasn’t a smear. They are just looking for a pretext to support fellow neocon McCain after he discredited their supposed influence over the GOP electorate in the poor showing of their candidate, Mitt Romney, and McCain’s failure to kowtow tow to the great Limbaugh.

As for the NYT lobbyist story, I think NYT reporters make a good point that the holier-than-thou McCain looks like a big hypocrite. Isn’t he the one who is always making a big deal about the “appearance of impropriety”? McCain clearly wrote that letter to the FCC on behalf of Paxson Comm. because of the influence of his lobbyist girlfriend. And there is evidence McCain may have lied under oath about his meeting with the Paxson Comm CEO. As for the adultery issue, it is well known that McCain has a history of womanizing and treated his first (and much older) wife like garbage, so it isn’t too hard to imagine that he might have had some inappropriate relations with this young blonde lobbyist.

It is puzzling how so many cultural and religious
conservatives have let McCain off the hook for his
past behavior.  Upon returning from Vietnam captivity,
McCain engaged in several adulterous affairs, including
with subordinates in the Navy.  He engaged in a romantic
affair with Cindy Hensley when he was still married to
his first wife.  His sense of romantic loyalty seems
to be lax.

McCain’s lack of loyalty to his first wife should
trouble conservatives who want McCain to be loyal to
their interests in the future.  Yet McCain has shown a
profound lack of political loyalty to conservative
ideals.  This was especially shown in his hook-up
with Ted Kennedy in the immigration amnesty bill of
last year, a bill that would have paved the way to
an intensification of the demographic revolution the
US has undergone in the last forty years.

A President McCain can not be trusted.  He has shown
a strident willingness to betray conservatives on a host
of issues like immigration, free speech and taxes.
And on the one issue that he appears to agree with a
majority of conservatives, the occupation of Iraq, he is
wrong.  Sad to say, a ridiculous Obama Presidency is
preferable to a catastrophic McCain Presidency.  At
least Obama promises to be the more amusing of the two
potential presidents.

I think they have finally done it.  The neo-cons and their stooges have finally rigged this election so that the next president whoever it is will have an approval rating lower than Dubyas.  Dubya will look like a statesman of rare character and wisdom after the next president.  It will be around the time that Obama or McCain has finally killed off what’s left of this flat lined republic that we decide to print some more monopoly money and build a monument to GWB.

But the only way he’ll win the general election is under three scenarios: another terrorist attack; a war with Iran; and perhaps the capture of Osama. Otherwise he is going to lose big. -Leon Hadar

I have to respectfully disagree with the terroist attack scenario as it would show that Bush and the GOP is weak on national security when TWO attacks happen under Georges watch what with Homeland Security and all the spying legislation enacted.

“it seems entirely plausible that the neocons and
their friends at the NYT might have planned this
outing to get the conservative talking heads behind
McCain, “

Yes, and it also seems plausible that the talking airheads have pretended to despise Mccain just to untrack the equally airheaded “religious rightists” who can be swung on an empty idea as though it were a rope.  Those pseudo-christians will continue to follow Limbaugh et al back around to a position of blind support for Mccain once the NYT has been soundly drubbed.

The entire spectacle of electioneering is so absurd and dismaying as to make thinking people nauseous.

The USA’s presidential electioneering is the worst kind of baldly imbecilic hucksterism the world has ever seen and it gets worse with each cycle.