Posted on 02/21/2008 6:27:02 PM PST by Kurt Evans
John McCain can deny the latest allegations all he wants. He can try to push back by blaming everything on the New York Times. And he can state, as he did Thursday morning, that in his 50 years of “public service,” he has “never violated the public trust.”
Oh, really?
How about back in 1974 when then Commander John McCain--fresh off his 5½ years as a POW in North Vietnam--was given his first command in Jacksonville, Florida?
McCain, according to Robert Timberg in his book, The Nightingale's Song, was transferred to Jacksonville as the executive officer of Replacement Air Group 174. A few months later, he assumed command of the RAG, which trained pilots and crews for carrier deployments. The assignment was controversial, some calling it favoritism, a sop to the famous son of a famous father and grandfather, since he had not first commanded a squadron, the usual career path.
While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander, the married McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs."
This was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates. But, as with all his other past behaviors, McCain was never penalized; instead he always got away with his transgressions.
Timberg wrote, "Off duty, usually on routine cross-country flights to Yuma and El Centro, John started carousing and running around with women. To make matters worse, some of the women with whom he was linked by rumor were subordinates ... At the time the rumors were so widespread that, true or not, they became part of McCain's persona, impossible not to take note of."
In early 1977, Admiral Jim Holloway, Chief of Naval Operations, had to deal with the embarrassment caused by McCain’s behavior. So the Admiral transferred McCain from his command position "to Washington as the number-two man in the Navy's Senate liaison office. McCain was promptly given total control of the office. It wasn't long before the "fun loving and irreverent" McCain had turned the liaison office into a "late-afternoon gathering spot where senators and staffers, usually from the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, would drop in for a drink and the chance to unwind."
ETHICS COMPLAINT OVER ATTACKING A GRIEVING WOMAN
In 1984, as a Member of the House of Representatives, John McCain gave a speech in Congressman Duncan Hunter’s San Diego district.
At the end of the speech a woman approached Representative McCain and introduced herself as the wife of a Marine pilot shot down and still missing in Southeast Asia. She asked Congressman McCain if he could help her find information on her husband’s case.
Eyeing the attractive woman, the married McCain replied, “Why don’t you ride with us and have dinner?”
Congressman Hunter and an aide sat in the front seat of the car, McCain and this woman in the back, as they drove to Hunter’s house. Not long into the short ride, McCain ran his hand up the woman’s skirt. Stunned, she pushed him away and resisted his advances. He continued trying to grab her, even after she moved as far away from him as possible.
As this time, McCain’s wife, Cindy, was pregnant.
Disgusted over his behavior she left as soon as they arrived at Duncan Hunter’s place. She promptly told the two Vietnam veterans who had originally encouraged her to try to see McCain about her missing husband’s case that night.
Years later a Senate Ethics Committee complaint was filed over this incident. In that complaint, the woman was quoted as saying that Congressman McCain used “unreasonable force in a hostile manner.” But the Senate Committee, then chaired by Mitch McConnell, claimed not to have jurisdiction over a matter that took place when McCain was in the House.
DR. JACK WHEELER’S CLAIMS
Dr. Jack Wheeler, who The Wall Street Journal called "the originator of the Reagan Doctrine," recently posted several columns about McCain. In one of them--weeks before the New York Times ran the explosive revelations about Vicki Iseman and McCain--Dr. Wheeler wrote, “McCain has been having affairs with three women, one of whom I know the name of.”
In his latest piece, he wrote of how the Democrats will attack McCain systematically in the fall, bleeding him drip by drip: “Then the identities of the women lobbyists with whom he has been cheating on his blonde rich wife will be known by early October.”
CONCLUSION:
Senator McCain used his wife today to finesse the issue of his alleged philandering. He used her to deny that anything bad is going on. “He wouldn’t disappoint me or our children.” Those words came from her--not from his mouth. He is being extra careful about denying his affairs.
His press conference in Toledo was similar to Gary Hart’s back in 1987 when he dared the media to find any examples of his philandering. Not much later came the now-infamous picture of Hart and Donna Rice on the Monkey Business.
McCain has similarly thrown down the gauntlet and denied ever violating the “public trust.”
Well, we’ll see now if the heretofore friendly-to-McCain media will try to prove him a liar.
Can’t we just do the whole primary/caucus thing over again...and do it right this time? or how about a little shake-up at the convention? Something?
Uh LeBoutillier endorsed MCain in 2000. Talk about fair weather friends, he probably is the NYT unnamed source, IMO.
I never heard any of this stuff before. It’s a vicious article. Is there proof for any of these accusations?
Making advances to the widow of an MIA? Now we now why Hunter endorsed Huckabee.
No proof of the accusations. The NYT (a pox on their printers) is just making this up wholesale and using info from a former JM aid. Yes, she was a lobbyist, and yes, they worked together, but that does NOT an affair make.
The NYT is doing the usual—accusation is all that matters, never mind about the truth.
Thing is, they’re not just messing up John McCain’s life, they’re ruining the life of the woman as well.
McCain has always seemed sort of sleazy to me.
Wrong accusations on my part. I would say that Duncan Hunter would make one heck of a witness. If he was there and gave testimony to such...it happened.
Another person I wish was still running—Duncan Hunter. Sigh.
This is really suspicious.
Usual Career Path? Too bad he was POW for 5 years, otherwise he could have gotten his normal promotions and followed the “usual career path”.
Rest of it is so sickening that I had to check the story was about McCain and not Bill Klinton.
Golly gee ... I couldn’t stand the sight of McCain before I read this and now I don’t know what the heck to think ... could the allegations in this article be true??? What a piece of filth if these accounts are accurate.
You may note that this one isn’t from the NYT.
Given the choice of BHO and JMcC I would vote for John even if he were a convicted axe killer.
Then work like hell to thwart any BS moves he made i.e., the phone in campaign to kill the amnesty bill - several times over.
BHO is not acceptable to me on any level, any time or any place. His clinical disorders are magnitudes worse than McC.
And yes - we would survive as a country with BHO however our grandchildren would pay a horrible price.
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Oh come on now you really think the men and liberal women of America care that McCain gets around? tiny bit sarcasm.
That is too funny! Right after 9/11, LeBout jumped all over Bush, basically saying that the attack led back to Iraq and that Bush would never be man enough to go get Saddam. Of course, after Bush went into Iraq he got blasted by LeBout. This guy is such a clown it's unbelievable.
What is shameful is that there are people here who want to vote for this POS.
Yes, I know. Wrong accusations, wrong source.(on my part) Thanks.
Lemme thank here jess a lil ole second.........uh...Eisenhower........Kennedy..........Clinton................we got a freaking double standard......oh but of course darling Democrats can’t be expected to stay zipped up........but Republicans can’t even ride on a corporate jet with a female. Republicans have to act like Saudis.............separate planes..........women can’t drive etc. or the delicate sensitivities of the males might go absolutely WILD with untamed passion and they cannot be held responsible for their beastly behavior.........
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