Combs Grows a Pair: McCain Should be Held to Same Standards
Alan Combs has been ridiculed as a tool of the right and for being Sean Hannity’s patsy. However, in the middle of a conversation about how former candidate John Edwards is unfit to be president for cheating on his wife, wimpy Combs suddenly breaks in and points out that McCain cheated on his wife too. This does not go over well:
First, why in the world are they arguing about whether John Edwards is fit to be president? He came in third in the primary. He will never be president. Second, while I don’t think that being unfaithful in 1980 disqualifies someone from being president, the hypocrisy of seeing a panel pile on a former presidential candidate (who is clearly a creep and a phony, as I argued months ago in no uncertain terms), but steadfastly defend McCain, is breathtaking.
Here’s part of what I had to say about John Edwards in November:
This is a guy who wouldn’t know integrity if it showed up in his law offices with a neck brace on (actually that might be the only time he would recognize it). He is a man who sold the Iraq War when it was convenient, and rails against it when it is not. He takes the high road when it’s easy, but avoids it when he’s behind in the polls.
So I’m no fan of his, although his focus on poverty reduction has important. But I’m not sure why conservatives think it’s such a good idea to focus on the infidelity of a man who neither holds, nor is running for, any public office.
For the record, McCain was cheating seven years after returning from Vietnam, and he got re-married to a 26 year-old beer heiress a month after divorcing his 42 year-old wife who was disfigured in a car accident while he was a POW. Again, not saying that it disqualifies him from being president, but conservatives should really get off their high horses before they go after former candidates. And this is no endorsement of anything John Edwards has done.
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Brushfires of Freedom » Blog Archive » Will Rick Warren Vote for Known Adulterer, John McCain? responds:
Posted: August 15th, 2008 at 10:04 pm →
[...] Combs Grows a Pair: McCain Should be Held to Same Standards [...]
Chip responds:
Posted: August 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am →
Well, if you look at the statistics, 78% of adulterers have been in torture or war situations prior to them leaving their spouses. Even when I watch documentaries of the Vietnam war and all the violence there, I get a huge desire to leave my wife for someone younger. Doesn’t everybody feel this way?
Chip responds:
Posted: August 19th, 2008 at 10:47 am →
By the way, that was sarcastic