MAVERICK, YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANY TIME

Yaaarrrrgh! It wasn't me!

There are dozens of good reasons not to vote for John McCain.

For me, his alleged private romantic affairs with another woman is not one of them.

While I appreciate the NY Times's focus on McCain's ethical hypocrisy, I found today's much-anticipated "bombshell" to be entirely dissatisfying. There's flimsy evidence that McCain gave lobbyist Vicki Iseman much of anything illegal, much less a ride on the Straight Talk Express.

By the end of the article, I felt like the allegations were only a few steps removed from Karl Rove's 2000 push-polling allegations in South Carolina that McCain fathered an illegitimate black child.

Even if the Times' allegations prove to be true, I will always resent the Gray Lady for making me visualize a grumpy contrarian Aryan septuagenarian doing the Humpty Dance on the ovarian floors of a woman almost half his age.

(Did you enjoy the internal rhymes of grumpy/Humpty and contrarian/septuagenarian/ovarian? You're welcome.)

Come to think of it, the most shocking part of the Times's story was that a homophobic Republican politician was exposed for alleged hanky-panky with an actual woman.

I suppose I was expecting something more along the lines of this (warning: NSFW).

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There is one upside to this McCain story. When you have a so-called "Maverick" allegedly snookering a woman with the last name Iseman, I mean, c'mon ...

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--Junichi