I don’t believe — I don’t want to believe — there’s any merit to the alleged McCain scandal. Granted, he hasn’t handled the leak well, and I never like it when a campaign pressures a newspaper to hold a story.
But for now I’m sticking with the Arizona maverick. I think he’s the most decent, honorable candidate running and I need hard evidence before reconsidering.
This much I do know: Hillbot has developed a “working relationship” with Drudge, who broke the McCain story today. Polls show McCain running ahead of Hillary in a general election.
Meanwhile, McCain has moved into a tie with The Anchorman in New Hampshire. Romney is as slick as the Clintons and is proving to be just as untrustworthy. The McCain story couldn’t have come at a better time for Romney — make of that what you will. (Mark Halperin is likewise suspicious.)
Don’t get me wrong: If these allegations turn out to be true, I won’t ignore reality. I’m not going to be like one of those blindly loyal Bill Clinton supporters.
I trust it won’t come to that. What little faith I have in politics — and politicians — is at stake.
fear not. i think the reports that the mccain campaign ‘pressured’ the nyt are overblown. it appears the nyt may have contacted the campaign with questions and the campaign answered them and urged them not to run a story that had no basis in fact.