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I don’t know why John McCain decided to take his campaign down a negative slide, but now it is really going bad for him. Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson has written a very in depth article about John McCain’s life. I think that John McCain would’ve had a better time of this race if he would’ve stayed above board like he said he was going to. However, now that the “gloves have come off” we are seeing the real McCain.

Truth be told, McCain is an opportunist. This has been stated by friends of the family like Ross Perot and others. The guy will do just about anything to win. Because of that, I think that he will have a hard time running a smear campaign…he has way more dirt than Obama.

McCain’s campaign has started talking about William Ayers and Rev. Wright, and are trying to paint Obama as a militant. The problem with that is that Obama denounced Ayers long ago and has no real association with the guy unless it is by proximity. The same is true with Rev. Wright. Here is the problem with an assault on Obama…

McCain is a womanizer who left his crippled wife to have sex with loads of other women. There is evidence of infidelity in his current marriage as well. McCain was a member of the Keating Five, a scandal which had McCain pulling favors for Charles Keating in the Savings and Loan blow up. Not to mention the fact that McCain was heard by many calling his wife a ‘C’ word. Let’s look at his running mate too.

Sarah Palin, although cute and likable, is known to be cut-throat. She practices cronyism and has no problem attacking her own supporters if they do not agree with her in every way. Sarah Palin allows her husband to make policy decisions and there is some evidence that she had an affair with her husbands business partner. Not to mention the fact that Sarah Palin is known for spewing racial slurs in Alaska.

I really think this could be a bad thing for McCain, because even if he doesn’t believe in computers and television, they exist. There are tons of stories that can be run on these two platforms that can have horrific consequences. Here are some excerpts:

Although he now crusades against wasteful military spending, McCain had no qualms about secretly lobbying for a pork project that would pay for a dozen Bridges to Nowhere. “He did a lot of stuff behind the back of the secretary of the Navy,” one lobbyist told Timberg. Working his Senate connections, McCain managed to include a replacement for the Midway in the defense authorization bill in 1978. Carter, standing firm, vetoed the entire spending bill to kill the carrier. When an attempt to override the veto fell through, however, McCain and his lobbyist friends didn’t give up the fight. The following year, Congress once again approved funding for the carrier. This time, Carter — his pork-busting efforts undone by a turncoat Navy liaison — signed the bill.

In the spring of 1979, while conducting official business for the Navy, the still-married McCain encountered Cindy Lou Hensley, a willowy former cheerleader for USC. Mutually smitten, the two lied to each other about their ages. The 24-year-old Hensley became 27; the 42-year-old McCain became 38. For nearly a year the two carried on a cross-country romance while McCain was still living with Carol: Court documents filed with their divorce proceeding indicate that they “cohabitated as husband and wife” for the first nine months of the affair.

Although McCain stresses in his memoir that he married Cindy three months after divorcing Carol, he was still legally married to his first wife when he and Cindy were issued a marriage license from the state of Arizona. The divorce was finalized on April 2nd, 1980. McCain’s second marriage — rung in at the Arizona Biltmore with Gary Hart as a groomsman — was consummated only six weeks later, on May 17th. The union gave McCain access to great wealth: Cindy, whose father was the exclusive distributor for Budweiser in the Phoenix area, is now worth an estimated $100 million.

McCain’s friends were blindsided by the divorce. The Reagans — with whom the couple had frequently dined and even accompanied on New Year’s holidays — never forgave him. By the time McCain became a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution” two years later, he and the Gipper had little more than ideology to bind them. Nancy took Carol under her wing, giving her a job in the White House and treating McCain with a frosty formality that was evident even on the day last March when she endorsed his candidacy. “Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided and then we endorsed,” she said. “Well, obviously, this is the nominee of the party.”

Tags: John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin