You’ve probably read the reports that John McCain has put himself into situations suggesting that he had an sexual affair with a 40-year-old female lobbyist.  Can this politically devastating information possibly be relevant to the current presidential campaign?

Not unless McCain has long-embraced and supported a political party that has consciously decided to make sexual moral pronouncements a major and unrelenting part of its political existence, all the while conflating the U.S. Constitution with the Ten Commandments and spewing this mentally stunted version of democracy in a holier-than-thou piss-on you-if-you’re-different-than-who-we-claim-to-be sort of way.  McCain, of course, is also a prominent member of the Republican serial polygamy club, another manifestation of Republican hypocrisy when it comes to alleged Republican sexual purity.

Those conservatives who get angry at seeing political smear tactics involving sexual innuendo need to shut up and take this medicine because they’ve all earned it by voluntarily associating with the modern day Republican party, a party that specializes in hypocritical villainizing (sexual, racial, immigration status, religious beliefs, you name it).  If those who are troubled by these smear tactics want these sorts of incidents to become irrelevant, they need to tell the Republican Party (by voting) to get government out of America’s bedrooms, for starters.

The next step toward redemption (for those who currently support the GOP) is to consider the real problem.  Remember, it’s not Vicki Iseman the lobbyist, it’s Vicki Iseman the lobbyist.   The problem is not that Iseman has a purportedly accessible vagina; rather, it’s that she hands out lots of corrupting campaign contributions on behalf of her clients.  Who accepts those contributions?  That’s the other part of the real problem: there is an immense amount of political/financial/campaign-cash whoring going on with regard to Mr. McCain, who claims to be Mr. Campaign Finance Reform Savior.  I’ve expounded on this more interesting issue over at Dangerous Intersection.