McCain's Immoral Past

This blog entry will not please most of you.  You may well figure that I am just flinging mud.  I have done my best to state facts or at least what John McCain himself has admitted to.  I certainly interject my feeling about what I write.   I hope you will investigate my statements yourself.

Here goes.  It is common enough for young men and women to not obey the laws of chastity propagated by most religions.  Outside of religions and inside of of some religions, it is even deemed quite normal for young people to experiment with sex.  But most of the religiously inclined who support the Republican Party and its candidates do not think like this.   They have very dour judgments of those who step outside of the moral strictures that are an integral part of their religious values.

It is for this reason that I think that it is important to talk about John McCain and his sexual choices in his life.  His life does not portray the moral life that many God-fearing voters believe to be of capital importance.

First of all, as a young man fully aware of what society approves of, McCain engaged in many sexual encounters while in the military and before marrying his first wife, Carol.  He was known as a real party goes and has admitted as much.  He partied and drank and had sex with the best of them.  During this time all-nighters and loose morals established his womanizing reputation.  During this time, he was smitten by and slept with a stripper known as the 'Flame of Florida".  His affair included a model from Brazil that he has proudly spoken of since.  What is important to note is that McCain has not repented of this kind of activity.  To his real credit, he has spoken and written about it openly.  He has done so with near pride, certainly  no remorse.  

He married when he was 28.  Her name was Carol and she had two kids from a previous marriage.  She had been a model, was tall and slender.  Thereafter he was sent to Vietnam.  She was the woman of whom he had dreamed while a prisoner of war in Hanoi.  When he came back, he discovered something awful:  Carol had nearly been killed in a terrible auto accident.  She had been thrown from the car and was found in the snow nearly dead.  She underwent multiple surgeries, time in a wheelchair and with a catheter.   When McCain returned, she was no longer the physical beauty that he had married and of whom he had dreamed.  McCain has admitted to having had extra-marital affairs during the time he was married to Carol and after his return from war.  Many years later, while still married to Carol, McCain began pursuing Cindy. There are various accounts about what went on, but the facts are clear:  he was pursuing Cindy actively while still married to Carol,  I will spare you the details that you can find for yourselves.  But the divorce record (from Carol) and marriage license (to Cindy) show a five week difference.  He actually acquired the marriage license for his marriage to Cindy while still married to Carol.  Cindy too is slender and beautiful.  The pattern held.

This does not speak well of Cindy either if you cling to certain morals.  Is it not fair to ask what kind of woman maintains an affair with a married man?  Cindy's addiction to drugs and some theft of the drugs she was addicted to (à la Rush Limbaugh) cast a further shadow on our possible First Lady.

So here is man for whom many of you intend to vote for our president.  A man with a long sexual history, who cheated extensively on his wife, a wife who was no longer physically attractive due to a terrible accident.  A woman who had taken care of his children and remained faithful to him during his emprisonment in Vietnam.  To top it all off, to replace Carol, he just happened to choose a woman who has money, a great deal of money.  How very convenient for him.  John McCain is a man who has gone after what he wants regardless of morals that constrain others.  The irony of all this is that this man is the presidential candidate for the Republican Party.  The Republican Party that so proudly brandishes family values, calls itself the party of 'values voters', that eschews sex before marriage, that holds marriage so sacred that it can't allow gays to have access to the institution even only civil, that viciously went after Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, and numerous other Democrats whose sexual escapades seemed to shock the RP faithful, that distinguishes itself from Democrats by its claim to a higher morality.

And the Republican Party chose this man, unrepentant in many respects, as its candidate?

The hypocrisy is thick.

That McCain is who he is, that he has the past that he has, is of no consequence to me personally.  I do not even reproach him his sexual dalliances.  I do not judge his young sexual life negatively at all.  I think it is quite normal.  For the most part, I'll bet, most men even admire him for it.  What I cannot accept however is the hypocrisy of the Republican Party that strives so ardently to separate itself from Democrats based the very principles that John McCain has so brazenly flaunted a good part of his life.   Any excuses for this?

Vote for him if you will, but if you do, don't bring up 'family values' or 'values' as a reason to vote for him like some of you have done.   

To my knowledge, Obama has been faithful to his wife and she to him.  He experimented as a young man too, but the difference between them on these counts is indisputable.

In full disclosure, if you go to the following sites, you will find that Carol, his first wife, endorses John and doesn't seem to harbor ill will.  You will recall that McCain has said that the failure of his first marriage is his fault and his greatest moral failure.  

Fine.  But you can't  put lipstick on this pig and pretend it isn't a pig.

And oh yea, Sarah Palin is distinctly attractive, I am sure that Mr. McCain did not fail to notice. 

I recommend  snopes.com , factcheck.com or Wickpedia search Carol McCain, or any other search you may like.  There are also books by John McCain himself that corroborate what I have written.