Trouble ahead for John McCain on issues of integrity: He may have had an affair with a lobbyist and done political favors for her. So reports the Times of London and even more extensively in the New York Times, courtesy of Drudge. That last part, re: political favors, is really the worst part — even if untrue, it’ll hurt McCain a great deal to be hit on the very thing that makes him so prominent for independents.
UPDATE:
I’m looking at this story, and it’s probably going to be a bigger problem for the New York Times. So far I’m seeing no smoking gun, especially not legislation that really seems salient here. He took money from lobbyists, and … thanked them? I just see a lot of rehash, but not a lot of brand new reporting — excepting the admission that campaign staff had to come between McCain and a lobbyist with whom he allegedly had romantic relations doesn’t help.
