Well the GOOD News is that John McCain has wrapped up the Nomination and looks to be the Republican nominee for President in 2008.
The BAD News is that the New York Times is just breaking a news story regarding Mr. McCain and a Sex Scandal.
The GOOD News for the Republicans is that it is not with a young boy.
February 21, 2008 The Long Run For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk
By JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON — 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, visiting his offices and accompanying him on 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 client, 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. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
That story is (so far) just a whole buncha noise about nothing. It comes across as a blatant, baseless and shameless attempt by the media to influence the election, and nothing more. Damn the authors, not the subject.
The article doesn't actually allege anything, it also refers to non-events that occurred (or didn't) several years ago, rendering it beyond irrelevant.
I believe we're getting an early glimpse of what's no doubt to come in this campaign. Obama will most certainly get his if he's the nominee. Hillary is a walking-talking version of this stuff, no matter what
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