Big Love: McCain/Palin Style

It's sort of ironic considering the scrutiny Mitt Romney underwent during the primaries for being a Mormon that John McCain's campaign has recently been coasting in spite of the fact that McCain has two wives. Indeed, as the McCain/Palin ticket -- the political world's real life version of Big Love -- gathers steam, Mormon Mitt is left on the sideline entertaining himself with his own jokes and dreams of what if...

The overlaps between McCain's courtship of Cindy and his more recent courting of Sarah, and the trials and tribulations of Bill Hendrickson (Bill Paxton) on HBO's hit drama are uncanny. Cindy, who is to John what Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) is to Bill, is John's second wife, the woman who he began dating while married to his first wife and college sweetheart, Carol.

Cindy, the heiress, was exactly the kind of woman McCain needed to propel his burgeoning political career. The mix of her family's wealth and political connections in Arizona, his ambition and not to mention his own family's wealth portended to make them Arizona's it couple. Like his first wife, Cindy surely hoped that she would have been his last.

Then along came Sarah, the political wunderkind the GOP considered too gifted for small-town politics. Entering the twilight of his political career with his presidential campaign sputtering, McCain, forever "The Mavrick" eschewed convention and brought Sarah into the fold. A la Bill's marriage Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) in Big Love, John's selection of Sarah as his running mate ruffled some feathers within the GOP clan. There have been murmurs that she's an outsider, too young, but for John she is just right--a point with which his pollsters would agree.

Adding his own twist to this drama, instead of settling down at one of his many homes, John, his family now complete, with Cindy and Sarah and their gaggle of kids in tow have been criss-crossing the plain states spreading their gospel of "Country First" in hopes of securing his eighth and final home, after all as his youthful nemesis recently declared, "eight is enough."

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Comments

[matt297]

Remember when McCain angrily shouted at his wife in front of his friends and called her a "c***"? Well, here's McCain shoving a little old war widow in a wheelchair:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/51660.html

Why, oh why, hasn't this story broken yet? This directly attacks McCain's supposed strength, namely, his honor and his character. And it has the virtue of actually being true!

Why all the reticence to bring up damaging information that's true? Why don't they do to McCain what Biden says you ought to do to any lying bully---bloody his nose!

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Four years later, at [a POW/MIA] group's Washington conference, about 25 members went to a Senate office building, hoping to meet with McCain. As they stood in the hall, McCain and an aide walked by.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.

As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.

"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.

McCain's staff wouldn't respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.

[MsLiz]

Statements such as "McCain waved his hand to shoo away " and "raised his left arm ready to strike her" presume to know what was going on in McCain's mind and include subjective interpretations of the viewer. In that McCain has limited arm mobility, it is absurd to vouch for the credibility of these reports.

He no doubt is a grumpy old man who was a spoiled brat as a child, but this is not probative.

[freedog]

John and Cindy McCain have always kept separate bank accounts for finances and he refuses to use her money to support his political aspirations.

[blog4um]

Not true.
He jetted around in her private plane to campaign THIS YEAR.

When he first ran for senate, they bought a house in the district that he ran in hours after finding out the incumbent would not be running for office.

[silverball]

freedog.....read your post....ag­ain....now­, does that make any sense to you????...it's as if you are saying there was no connection­....marrie­d into a very influencial familiy in az???...DUH....the separation is more for political reasons....and you don't think he benefits from her wealth??? how many homes?.....