Is the NYT implying that McCain had an affair with a lobbyist?

Choice cuts from this article:

"The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."

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The second letter came on Dec. 10, a day after the company's jet ferried McCain to a Florida fundraiser aboard a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla. The fundraiser was arranged by Hector Alcalde of Alcalde & Fay and was hosted by a cruise line that Alcalde had represented, Paxson said. Paxson said he attended the fundraiser.

 

Am I missing something? How exactly is Renzi going to have any effect on McCain?

 

So again, if you're going to find a president with perfect integrity and character, you better find God because you'll run out of stones before you find the flawless one. Ain't no one in Washington who's served in any capacity that hasn't fallen in the snake pit at least once.

 

God won't run.
Can't raise the money.

 

Most of his savings has gone to pay off the lawsuits

 

I don't care that someone got high in college, or married three times, or any of that. There are no saints, I get it. A tumble into the snakepit might not disqualify someone from public office, depends on the depth of the tumble and the breed of snakes, I suppose.

But it does matter. When a candidate stands up there preaching honesty and integrity, it matters, because he's really saying, 'I'll have honesty and integrity about some some stuff, maybe not all the stuff, and I'll decide which.'

None of which has anything to do with the Times' shoddy job with this story, just speaking in general.

 

So the choice is, which snake can you trust most of the time?

 

He's the Arizona co-chair of Johnny Mac's campaign, for openers. It doesn't reflect well.

 

Oh, puh-LEEEEEEZZZZZEEEEEEEEEE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/25/its-possible-romney-will-return-to-race-son-says/

Come back, Mittster.

 

If so, Sonny is as deluded as the Flipster.

 

He's one of 24 co-chairs. Every Arizona Republican in Washington is a co-chair, along with any prominent Republican in Arizona politics. It's a bit of a reach.