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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:06 PM
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McCain Refuses to Tap Wife's... Assets

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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/07/16/mccain_will_not_tap_wifes_assets.html

July 16, 2007
McCain Will Not Tap Wife's Assets
"The dire financial situation of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has some observers wondering why he doesn't dip into his family's fortune," the Arizona Republic reports.

McCain, unlike rival Mitt Romney, "isn't independently wealthy. His household is wealthy thanks to his wife, Cindy McCain, who inherited a lucrative Budweiser beer distributorship from her father, the late Jim Hensley." Her assets are value in excess of $24 million.

But McCain flatly ruled out such a move: "I value my marriage too much. I have never thought about it. I would never do such a thing, so I wouldn't know what the legalities are."

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loyalkydem

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:07 PM
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1. *gssp*

You mean someone was married to that man? Oh I feel for her.

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BlooInBloo

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:23 PM
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10. Dude - she is/was smokin-ly good looking.

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Lance_Boyle

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:07 PM
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2. "I would never do such a thing, so I wouldn't know what the legalities are."

TRANSLATION:

"We already did. Those accounts are empty."

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aquart

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:09 PM
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5. Or: She said NO.

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Richard Steele

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Tue Jul-17-07 04:55 PM
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17. DingDingDing!

Someone isn't willing to throw her money down the rathole
her husband's career has become.

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Raven

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:08 PM
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3. Well...maybe she told him he couldn't touch her assets....

just maybe.

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BOSSHOG

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:09 PM
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4. Damn, I'm supporting mccain right now and didn't even know it

AAAh, but that Bud is good.

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OrangeCountyDemocrat

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:14 PM
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6. Maybe Katherine Harris Has Some $$$$$ Left Over To Lend Him

Didn't she tap her inheritance or something, to fund her LAME campaign?

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Swamp Rat

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:15 PM
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7. LOL!!

No sex threads in GD! :D

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Disturbed

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:22 PM
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8. McLame's wife knows that he won't win so she told him

that she will not waste her money on a lost cause. His spin makes him sound noble. Anyone who has followed his career knows what a liar and hypocrite he really is.

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hfojvt

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:22 PM
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9. so, in other words

even your own wife does not think it's important for you to be President. She does not support you enough to put up even 10% of her money to help your campaign.

I guess I understand that, because it would be a huge hardship trying to live on $22 million after you blew $2 million running for President. You'd have to take a vow of poverty if you spent $5 million and had to live on a mere $19 million.

Come on, John, certainly you'd get some of it back after you ghost-write a book in 2009 "The Straight-down express: how I lost the Republican nomination by supporting the Iraq war"

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pitohui

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:26 PM
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i wouldn't give him my $$$ either

there is a limit, if he can't raise the money on his own steam, why should he blow what she has, a mere $24 million -- enough to keep her for life and through retirement -- is NOTHING in a presidential campaign

so why throw away the security she has on the off chance that he "might" one day be prez, if it was meant to be, somebody outside the family would donate the $$$

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judaspriestess

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:26 PM
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11. the keystone campaign

continues. Oh john john, looks like satan did not live up to his end of the deal.

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Bake

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:38 PM
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12. He'll gladly spend other people's money (if they'd just give it to him!).

But not his wife's. Not gonna put PERSONAL assets at risk, of course.

Hell, I wouldn't either. Especially not on a loser campaign like McLame's.

Bake

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Disturbed

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:53 PM
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13. Thanks Bake.

I have been trying to get others to use "McLame" for a long time. :evilgrin:

BTW I coined "Busholini", as well but no widespread usage of that, yet.

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Bake

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:56 PM
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14. I'd have gladly footnoted you!

I saw it just lately and like it a lot!

McLAME. Has a nice ring to it. Good job!

Bake

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Big Pappa

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Tue Jul-17-07 03:57 PM
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15. Of course not,

he wants to use ours.

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DeSwiss

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Tue Jul-17-07 04:52 PM
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16. It's starting to get really, really ugly....

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soothsayer

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Wed Jul-18-07 12:16 AM
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18. He's already made a million with this phony campaign

(doesn't he have $3.4M and owe like $1.8M or so?)

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markk

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Wed Jul-18-07 12:20 AM
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19. Seems like a fairly assanine article

24 million dollars is nothing to a Presidential campaign. If he cant do it without that he cant do it.

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Wed Jul-18-07 12:23 AM
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20. I'm pretty sure it was written largely to generate that title.

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