So, who was really the source of the McCain sex scandal, dirty lobbyist leak?

[sniffa]

Not to influence any votes...... so I won't.

Edit: Jeez, I meant to butcher Rudy's name, but not that bad. :P

[TwilightGardener]

1. Mike Bloomberg?

[babylonsister]

2. Gomer Pyle. nt

[Bicoastal]

3. That's the worse misspelling of "Giuliani" I've ever seen.

And I've SEEN 'EM ALL!!

[rug]

8. lol

[jean627]

12. Guolianni?

Yes, left out the h...Ghoulianni LOL

[tokenlib]

4. Pat Robertson?

He sees and hears a lot of strange stuff.

[Guava Jelly]

5. Mercer

...shhh

[mtnester]

6. My guess..your hint is one letter

K

[Flabbergasted]

14. Karl?

[mtnester]

18. Yeah

certainly and totally possible or probable

[Flabbergasted]

21. I'm not sure I understand the logic of breaking it now.

If Karl and co doesn't want him as the nominee they could have broken it weeks ago. This just gives the Democrats a better chance. Why would Karl want that?

[Occam Bandage]

25. ...

http://info-pollution.com/thunder.htm

[Flabbergasted]

28. That makes sense. Break it now so it becomes a near non-issue by Nov

[Melinda]

7. Other: RNC -- straight from the Lee Atwater Playbook. n/t

[H2O Man]

9. In January,

I had posted about a passage in Arthur Schlesinger Jr's recently published journals, about McCain's problems with affairs. Arthur said that these would sink any presidential hopes that McCain had.

I think these issues were well-known in DC.

[Life Long Dem]

10. Huckabee is the only one (Ron Paul) out of top 3 that stayed in for some reason.

He'd be my first suspect, then ruling him out... but should I?

[Flabbergasted]

13. You'd think Huckabee whould have put this out a few weeks ago then. nt

[sniffa]

15. I'd say that, but...

I don't think he has a shot what soever (even with this scandal), and I also don't think he has the inroads to get this info first, and the contacts to get it out there. My first 4 possibilities are the options aside from other. After mulling over these options I decided that 9/11 is the behind it; I came to the conclusion that it came from one of the dropped out candidates, or maybe some future candidate, and after narrowing it down to Mitt and Rudy (and just to make a note of it - I initially belted out Romney as Bi-Baby and I were watching this), I decided that the Ghoul is the one most likely to have the inroads for this.

[Flabbergasted]

22. Why? So he can run later? He was soundly rejected and will have

even less clout in four years. Romney? I don't think so.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. God told Huckabee

It's his ordained endorsement for Huck.

[Prefer]

16. The Fundies had it planned all along

that's why Hucky stayed in.

Now we know the source of the dirty tricks... the "virtuous" ones

[Coexist]

17. Flynt? Limbaugh?

[mtnester]

19. Not LF..he would have announced that himself

not let the NYT do it

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. And waited until October n/t

[AlCzervik]

20. McCain railing against lobbyists while he was slamming into one, how ironic.

Mark Foley protecting "the Children!!!" from the internet predators while he was one, Ted Haggard the crystal methodist and so on.

[Recursion]

23. Everyone involved is saying there wasn't any sex... but interestingly...

...the sex details are obscuring the fact that John "Straight Talk Express" McCain was doing legislative favors for a lobbyist.

[Sybbis]

26. Not Flynt, he'd wait for the general to bury McCain...

Rush and his merry band of fuckwits is a good call. Coulter and the rest might be responsible as well. They HATE McCain with the heat of a thousand suns. I wonder if this is the much discussed "candidate sex scandal" that the LA Times was sitting on a few months back? It was bound to get some traction sooner or later.

God, that poor Stepford Wife of his must be ready to kick his ancient, Viagra popping ass. I don't think he can weather this, not after what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton.

So - Huckabee can't make it, they're back to Romney. In some ways he's a stronger candidate than McCain but his endorsement and the release of his delegates is a problem.

Since we continue to destroy the Democratic Party from within this season, I suppose it's just as well that the Republicans are in a clusterfuck. Still, it's a pity they didn't wait for the old goat to get the nomination.

[billyoc]

27. The other half of the BlondeWhich with Extra McMayo. nt

[Occam Bandage]

29. McCain. I'm not kidding.

[sniffa]

30. Has he had enough?

Or is he trying to help Clinton be his opponent some how? :shrug:

[Occam Bandage]

32. Here's my reasoning.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4689153&mesg_id=4689153

[MonkeyFunk]

31. evidently

former campaign workers, according to the report.

As hard as it is to believe these days, sometimes newspapers really DO break stories.

[CorpGovActivist]

33. Former McCain staffer was the primary source.

That staffer has been well-compensated by Bush/Cheney top confidante, and will have steady party work forever now.

Secondary, confirming source was a driver.

A few other staffers got cornered into partial confirmations, before clamming up.

- Dave