John McCain: "I Stopped Beating My Wife Just A Couple Of Weeks Ago."

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McCain Gambles with Awkward Joke
June 27, 2008 7:38 AM

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn't choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign.

"I appreciate his support," McCain said. "As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman."

Why snub the governor? Ralston asked.

"I didn’t mean to snub him,. I've known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we've been good friends," McCain said. "I didn't intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman."

Maybe it's the governor's approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.

Said McCain, chuckling, "And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago."

Some have found the subject of McCain's joke -- wife-beating -- inappropriate.

More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html

[MidwestTransplant]

1. When did he stop calling her a c*nt

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2. Kick

[HannibalBarca]

6. Just gotta say, stunning.

[anonymous171]

3. Looks like Peggy Noonan got her wish. lol

[DesertRat]

4. What a moron. n/t

[Kdillard]

5. God I can just imagine the "jokes"

he will make to foreign dignitaries. He would be worse than Bush if that were even possible.

[TheDonkey]

7. wtf? that didn't even make sense.

[mucifer]

8. senator mccain good luck with getting those Hillary votes