Vickie Iseman

It appears that it just might be:

Conservative media outlets rushed with surprising vehemence to defend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday against a critical article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked.

Rush Limbaugh calls it "the drive-by media ... trying to take him out."

Laura Ingraham, another influential conservative radio host, said the Times waited until McCain was on the brink of the Republican presidential nomination and now is seeking to "contaminate" him with an article that she calls "absurd" and "ridiculous."

Amazing how much some of these talking heads wanted to smear McCain, yet when something comes out smearing him they defend him. There's a few avenues this story can take now:

1. The story dies down in the next couple of weeks and people just forget about it.
2. The New York Times gets exposed with another Jayson Blair type incident.
3. More evidence comes out really incriminating McCain.

It is too early in this story to tell which avenue this story goes. I highly doubt the second option happens, so it leaves it to 1 or 3. I could easily see either option happening.

He denied it all needless to say. I found it interesting that Cindy McCain said John would never do anything to disappoint his family. I wonder what Carol McCain thinks about that (John's first wife that he left while having an affair with his current wife)?

McCain also says he has always been honorable. The Keating Five was really honorable, eh Senator?

Then why did McCain go out and hire a big wig D.C. attorney? Remember this was back in December when McCain's campaign was in financial turmoil. Shouldn't the "Straight Talk Express" have been able to straight talk their way right out of this?

Something else on this subject is the new meme people like Tucker Carlson are putting out there. That is this line that "I thought we were past this kind of stuff". They are talking about sex in politics. We really started hearing this line during the Larry Craig scandal and it is getting echoed today. Was there some big truce I missed? A couple of weeks ago Tucker was laughing at the line: What will Bill Clinton do with all this time on his hands? Of course they were talking about Bill being the "First Man".

So it was fine to impeach a President over an affair and still twist the facts of it being some sort of "rape" (like Ann Coulter does), but we can't talk about it when it happens to the "party of morality". The Republicans built up these high standards and they damn sure better live by them, or learn to accept the consequences when they are exposed as the hypocrites they are.

I posted a link to Vickie Iseman's biography posted on her company's website earlier. Now the company has pulled the profile. Don't worry, I got a screen shot:

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And we always have the Google cached page.