According to the New York Times, Senator John McCain has problems with that classic statement when it comes to ethics:
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.
Please read the entire article. All I can say after reading the article is this:
Mike Huckabee and his campaign may have the opening they were looking for and needed if this story has legs (which in today’s media, it probably will).
UPDATE #1
I agree wholeheartedly with Big Tent Democrat’s assessment of the sexual angle of this story. Why is it needed? Well I know the answer but it still sickens me. Sex scandals are beyond tired. They are used up. The real issue of this story and if it will have legs throughout this election season are what I said in the comments:
I think that the story is “appearances of ethical impropriety” from a man that says he stays away from that.
And that’s fair game.
I’m not complex. Don’t have time for all that. And all that complex stuff bad for the stomach. Just color me simple and plain with a twist.