McCain Suggests Wife Participate In Topless Contest

Yesterday evening John McCain took part in the Sturgis Rally 2008 at Buffalo Chip in South Dakota, an annual tribute to veterans. The candidate was so enthused, he told attendees, that he encouraged his wife to participate in the festivities: "I told her with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip."

As the Huffington Post reported on Sunday, the Miss Buffalo Chip contest is more than a little risque -- not to mention bedeviled by violence:

ESPN's Jim Caple described the as "essentially a topless beauty pageant. And occasionally bottomless, too."

"During a drenching rain Wednesday night, the contest broke up into smaller groups and one woman wound up dancing naked on a bar top. Her boyfriend/husband saw her and angrily dragged her away as she struggled to put her pants back on and muttered something about how, "It's only this one week a year."

How sweet. Sadly, the pageant also sees its share of domestic abuse, which even the event's organizers admit to Caple is a major problem.

Here are some videos from last year's contest (warning: probably NSFW or young readers).

The beauty pageant:

The wet t-shirt contest:

The pickle-licking contest:

Comments

[olivia]

It's incredible how easy it is for them to look white trash. They blend right in.

[DMW1]

While discussing McCain's appearance as the opening act at the Sturgis Bike Rally, Rachel Maddow on Countdown with Keith Olbermann points out a "critical and basic" difference between the Obama and McCain campaigns.

Funny and pathetic:
http://www.stopthinkvote.com/whatsnew/080608.html

[wanj]

Blast it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHN9bLCgF7k&eurl=

[EngineerBill]

I'll clean this up. After seeing the You Tube videos, all I could think is "Aw Shoot".
Nice to see McCain surrounding himself in this the dignified atmosphere befitting the office.

[Mr Grey]

What a classy guy!

[MRb1000]

What is wrong with this guy. He just use his wife like a piece of trash.

[nerakami]

Just irks me that had it been Obama... it would be on 24/7 loop. Great family values... like Joe Francis and Girls gone wild!!... go Cindy, a little bit of pole dancing lessons and you'll do just fine !!!

[jemiltd]

I keep hearing the refrain that people don't know Barack Obama. I suppose it's never occurred to them that if there was anything in his character that could be exploited, it would have happened by now. On the contrary, McCain's character and point of view concerning women and family values has been played out in public for years. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/e-joyce-moore/mccain-supportive-of-wome_b_113503.html yet his supporters ignore it like it never happened. Do you really want this mentality in the White House?

[jesuswazasocialist]

Well Golly McCain seems to be amongst his constituency here.
Looks like a whole lot of Nascar watching Trailer park living Good Ole Boys here.
I am sure hot dang that these boys come November will be voting Republican.

Yeeeee haaaaa.

[doug108]

My God. I wouldn't want to be within 200 miles of that horrible event. Not because of the debauchery, but because of the kind of people doing the debauching.

[nellie]

Pretty consistent with what we hear about the way he treats Cindy. I feel bad for her. And for the first Mrs. McRove, too.

Pay attention, PUMA people, to the Champion of Women.

[soapington]

But after the generous offer, why didn't Cindy participate in the contest? If McCain can't be trusted to set up his own wife with a banana and a wet t-shirt, what can he be trusted to do?

[GingerCan]

from Off the Bus: Mayhill Fowler

The billboard on the road into Sturgis, site of the 68th annual Jackpine Gypsies motorcycle rally, read "Kellie Pickler, Kid Rock and John McCain," in that order, for the night's mainstage event at the Buffalo Chip campground.

He gets third billing after Kid Rock and Kellie Pickler...­what was she like 6th runner up on American Idol like ages ago... this is the billing he gets at a biker rally? its worse than i thought.

cliche as this may sound: why isn't anyone covering this outside of blogs. the pundits are all a flutter about whether Obama gathering such huge crowds home and abroad are a bad sign... too presumptuous, too "chosen one", yet no one is focusing on the fact that McCain has to skulk around in supermarkets and biker rallies... and gets 3rd billing when he does. They don't even put in their A-game stock boys when McCain is in the house.

How can this be close... HOW?

[mypov123]

This is disgusting­....if women who are Hillary supporters vote for McCain out of spite, even after seeing these video clips, then I don't know.

[kmdippenger]

I watched a news clip of McCain on the campaign trail. He was departing an airplane and had a line of greeters waiting for him. MCCain shook the hands of the tall men and passed by without notice the shorter woman holding out her hand in turn. How devastating for our country to have a leader who has such low regard for women....t­his lack of respect seems to be a pattern for him.