Disgusting McCain

Way back in March, I posted about Senator Sun-Dried Turd having hired Terry Nelson as an advisor:

After hiring Terry Nelson as an advisor, a bloke who was last seen aiding and abetting Tom DeLay’s money-funneling machinations, McCain appeared on a Seattle radio show where a caller questioned his decision, saying, “For a reformer, I'm kind of curious why he would hire a guy like Terry Nelson as a senior advisor… I'm curious why would you hire someone with such a shady background?”

And then the fun began.

MCCAIN: None of those charges are true.

CALLER: You don't believe what was actually written in the indictment from Texas?

MCCAIN: No.

CARLSON: All right.

[nervous laughter]

MCCAIN: I will check it out. But I've never heard of such a thing. I know that he was a grassroots organizer for President Bush year 2000 and 2004, and had a very important job in the Bush campaign as late as 2004, but the other charges I will go and look and see if any of them are true, but I've never heard of them before.

That’s the way to not look like an asshole—immediately deny that charges you later admit you’ve never heard of aren’t true. Well played, Captain Clever.

In the interim, McCain has been busily turding it up all over the country, and Nelson produced the infamous bimbo ad attacking Harold Ford, Jr. The ad “provoked charges of racism across the country” and made Nelson “politically radioactive—so much so that Wal-Mart dumped Nelson as a consultant after the controversy exploded. But Nelson's ad hasn't rendered him too radioactive for McCain, apparently.” Because McCain has now chosen Nelson as national campaign manager for his presumed presidential run.

Evidently, after his wife was called a junky and his adopted daughter was called his illegitmate black child by the Rove smear machine in 2000, McCain the Maverick decided: If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em. What a trailblazer.