So It May Not Be So Much of a Gag...

I was kinda liking the theory that McCain himself planted the story to offset the age issue and show that he's a spry little sex poodle.

Stranger theorizes that's not far off the mark (although the motivation is quite different).

You have to look at the timing of this whole thing. By letting the legal teams hash out the release of the story for three months before acquiescing to its publication, we see the release of the story just as McCain seems poised to take the GOP monination - but still pretty far out from Election Day. Given that many TV pundits have already decided that this story will only hang around for a couple of days, all McCain needs to do is deny, deny, deny until it dies down, and presto! - he's innoculated! Any revisiting of the story between now and November - whether or not there are new revelations - will be written off by the McCain campaign as 'old news.'

But it doesn't stop there - not by a shot. Over at Politico, McCain advisor Charlie Black lets slip that after negotiating with the Times over the story for months, now they're going to cash in on it.

That's one of what we're sure is going to be hundreds of theories surrounding the timing and reason for this story. With this one, we share Stranger's intrigue of how the NY Times has vetted it with their people as well as McCain's.

That's sports. Stay tuned for the weather.

h/t David Aquarius

Comments

[kb]

Good grief! Republicans should be praising this to high heaven. After Mark Foley and his affection for teen-aged boys, Larry Craig with his gay bathroom sex solicitations and George Bush and his homosexual prostitute White House visitor Jeff Gannon, they finally have a high stepper who is associated with a woman.

[Steve]

That explains why every time I hear this rumor, the woman is described as being "in the all-together, having long shed her bloomers."