The New York Times has some damaging goods on John McCain, reportedly involving a female lobbyist.

AmSpecBlog ^ | 1/14/08 | Quin Hillyer

[TBBT]

Here's the deal, folks: The New York Times has some damaging goods on John McCain, reportedly involving a female lobbyist. McCain threatened legal action if the Times printed the story. The Times backed off... for now. But you can be sure the Times will unload on McCain if he nails down the GOP nomination...

[vietvet67]

“I hear John McCain was involved with the Keating Five, has a short fuse, a violent temper, and tells mean jokes.... favors amnesty for illegals, thinks restricting free speech is important, yadda yadda yadda, this guy has gotten too many free passes already.”

Let’s not forget the McCain/Kerry handling of the POW/MIA issue. I won’t.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The Times—if they have this dirt—is hoping to sit on it until McCain is the clear front runner or the nominee.

The mission of the news media in a presidential election season is: (1) Support the Democrat candidate and undermine the Republican candidate (2) Sabotage the Republican primary process by inflating mediocre candidates and attacking the more formidable candidates.

[KC_Conspirator]

I have heard that the McCain marraige is quite “open”. They both have been seen around town with other people.

[babble-on]

I ain’t gay but he shore looks good to me!

[Bitsy]

So is this the sex scandal involving a Senator/Prez candidate that was hinted at a few weeks ago?

If so, was there a cigar involved?

[avacado]

"I ain’t gay but he shore looks good to me!"

"Yooooo - hoooo... was that your foot?"

[Calpernia]

Is this that Ron Rosenbaum story about a Presidential Candidate scandal?

[Cedric]

Thanks for sharing.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Don’t know if you ever saw this, from a liberal paper no less:

When John Kerry’s Courage Went M.I.A.
Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.’s left behind
by Sydney H. Schanberg
February 24th, 2004

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee’s final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0408,schanberg,51276,1.html

[Spok]

Is anyone here but me old enough to remember when political scandals impacted politicians of both parties? It’s strictly a one-way street now.

[Uriah_lost]

If the MSM seems to be favoring a Republican candidate, you can be sure they have some dirt that they are waiting to use in the General....

[eastsider]

Conversely, they have nothing on Thompson and Hunter, so they ignore them.

[Uriah_lost]

Why are so few of us wise to this? You and I should write a book!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“you can be sure the Times will unload on McCain if he nails down the GOP nomination”....You bet! They will save it all up and drop trous on him at just the right moment!

[a real Sheila]

LOL!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Then, of course, there is his legendary, out-of-control, inexcusable temper.

I'd take out the "inexcusable" part. I'm willing to excuse a lot of emotional/psychological problems in someone who endured what he endured as a POW. However, it does render him unfit to be POTUS. We can't have our President flying into rages while conducting the nation's business, especially with other heads of state and representatives of hostile and/or unstable countries.

[supremedoctrine]

my thought also-—a full fledged LEWINSKY-TYPE SCANDAL
is way out of McCain’s bailiwick-—he seems to be happily married——and he’s physically not up to the demands a real
DC sex scandal require. SO, HAVING SAID ALL THAT-—if the NYT is out to get him, they can either float or threaten to float the story,which they have in fact already done, the story itself which may be empty inside, in which case, that in itself is the story, but Mc Cain is somehow damaged anyway.

[OrioleFan]

Mystery woman??

2008 May Test Clinton’s Bond With McCain

John McCain Denies Vodka Drinking Contest With Hillary Clinton

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yeah, c’mon! If this info really exists, then there is no way it will remain a secret. This is the age of the internet, for goodness sake.

You and I and the rest of FReeperdom understand that. The NYT, however, is having trouble keeping up with the modern world and does not understand it.

[txhurl]

And the LAT were specific that it was a sitting Senator, most of us (myself included) thought to be about Obama/? or Hillary/Huma.

There were all these freepers calling it a trap: a trap for whom, in retrospect?

This vulnerability also explains Rush’s vitriol for McLettuce.