So if you are running as the up-standing, uncorrupt, anti-lobbyist and special interest candidate, this is not good. From the story of record, which broke this last night, the New York Times:
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
I'm pretty sure we don't know enough to understand the full extent of this relationship--just close friends and colleagues? A bit more? A lot more? But regardless, being that close with a lobbyist while you are chair of the Senate Commerce Committee is not a good thing.
Mike Huckabee, who is still in the race against McCain, must be laughing that "miracles do happen" (when asked why he's in the race, that's his response...). How crazy would it be for Huck to get this afterall? And poor Mitt Romney; a day late and dollar short.
What a campaign............
PS: Considering all of this, I suppose it could be worse. In light of Mark Foley, Larry Craig, and the rest of the anti-gay gay Republicans, at least this lobbyist was a chick and not a dude!
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