SlowpokeBlog

While McCain has a well-proven history of infidelity -- he cheated on his first wife with his current wife, who has funded his political career -- I worry that this whole thing will ultimately work against the Dems and help McCain, like the CBS report on Bush's sketchy National Guard record, despite the fact that this was a clear conflict of interest on McCain's part, while Clinton's affair was not. We're already getting lines like this from winger Howard Kurtz, media guy for the Post whom, strangely, a lot of respectable people seem to take seriously:

As for the political fallout, the issue should be the confirmable facts and what they say, or don't say, about McCain's run for the presidency. In Bill Clinton's case it turned out to be quite relevant, and he had sexual relations with that woman, and some others. In this case, we have two people who deny such a relationship.

Right. A possible extramarital affair with a telecom lobbyist at the exact same moment you're championing ethics reform is so much less relevant to politics than getting a BJ from an intern.

You would not be hearing this kind of tripe if McCain were a Democrat.