McCain’s Date-Gate Update
Nathan Greene
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By Emily Geiger
Despite all of the media attention this story got yesterday, it doesn’t seem that this “romantic relationship with a lobbyist” story has legs.
Everyone is denying it, including “the other woman,” who, unlike Monica, appears to be a respected professional. The only named source in the story, John Weaver, has come up with a plausible explanation for the meeting he had with “the other woman.”
He says he had heard that she had made comments that she had sway with one of McCain’s committees, and Weaver didn’t like her insinuating that she had any power over the Senator. The source flatly denies that it had anything to do with any supposed “romantic” relationship, or any warning to end any such relationship. Further, the source said he doesn’t believe there was any such romantic relationship, and he is still a strong supporter of McCain. A re-read of Weaver’s quotes (without the sexual innuendo heaped on by the Times earlier in the story) makes his version of events seem believable.
Unless the New York Times’ other anonymous sources come out of the closet, or unless we find another “stained blue dress,” this story does smack of an attempted political homicide on the part of the Times against McCain.
And, this story has given talk radio an opportunity to mend some fences and defend McCain. You know what they say: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I bet the Times didn’t anticipate their actions could actually end up helping McCain in the long run.
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I wont vote for McCain even if he was running against Al Gore!
We will need to suffer through Four years of Clinton or Obama, but we will get Huck in 2012. I'm starting his campaign today!