Having already abused his current wife in public (having handily divested himself of the previous Mrs. McCain to marry this one for her money) Republican candidate John McCain shows consistency in his attitude towards women:
The blog Rum, Romanism and Rebellion unearthed a 1986 newspaper article reporting an insensitive and sexist joke McCain was said to have made.
Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’
Women’s groups slammed McCain at the time for making the joke; it remains to be seen how much its reemergence will hurt the Republicans’ ongoing attempts to woo women voters.
When the article first appeared, McCain’s campaign denied he had made the joke, but the reporter who wrote the article stands by the story.
Well. That’ll go down well with the voters.
Edmund Schluessel
July 16, 2008 at 4:51 pmWon’t even make a splash. The press’ll focus on some dumb joke someone vaguely associated with the Obama campaign makes, and drag it out for a month ’til Obama disowns him.