John McCain the Republican's likely candidate for his party's run for the presidency is in high dudgeon. Protests too much he about his very close relationship with a female lobbyist representing the very powerful telecommunications industy a Vicki Iseman. T'was a Spring Fall 'romance', which the Arizona senator hotly denies. He who held the reins of the Senate committee on telecommunications at a time when Herr Bush & co. lost no time in turning over the public airwaves to the mighty media corporations.
In a rush to trump its competitors, read, 'Newsday' and 'The New Republic', the 'New York Times' rushed its sorry on McCain to grab headlines and headlines and the buzzing of the rumour mill began with a bang. McCain was not happy, nor his wife who like all good spouses stands behind him.
There is no getting around it, McCain wrote letters pushing for Paxson Communications which lady bountiful Iseman fronted for with a lavishness which seduced the aging lothario from Arizona. He invited her to fly with him; she bent him to her demands for Paxson, and he delivered grandly like the thief in the night. McCain's staffers say, he had a roll in the hay with Iseman but that remains in the limbo of he says, she says. Iseman ain't talking, McCain is denying.
But what is undeniable is that Mr. Squeaky Clean has left a paper trail of his strong intervention in pleading Paxson's cause, and that payed off. How does this affect our lothario's chances as the front runner for the Grand Old Party? His missteps with Vicki Iseman fuels the flames of those who think he's not conservative enough or is a faux Republican posing as a member of the clan. Republicans who are never shy of pointing the high moral finger at fallen Democrats see no cause to blame him yet. However if the sensational press would do more homework of their own, they would drag up McCain's cavorting with special interests and in the banking sector. His closeness to a failed bank during the saving & loan scandal in the 1990's almost cost him his seat. So, Mr. Clean and Spiffy midshipman McCain has a strong odour of scandal to his name. The 'New York Times' scoop has made the round of the world and will die not a firefly's death but will get lost in the shuffle for more scandal and sensationalism which America's media love. McCain is damaged goods. Mitt Romney whose Bain Capital is fronting for the Chinese government in a sale of some us$3bn for 3Com which makes military software for the American government is waiting in the wings. So one way or the other these representatives of moral decency and rectitude are venal as the day is long on any 21 June!
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