John McCain and saving his political ass..continued..

As I wrote about here earlier in the week, Johnny did more than just cover the ass of his drug addicted wife when he kept her from doing time on either a Federal or State level for her drug problems. He saved his own political career which had recently been rocked by the Keating Five Scandal.

Now, the Washington Post has picked up the story of Cindy and John McCain and their link to Tom Gosinski. Its a must read, but let me leave you a few of the money quotes:

While McCain’s accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged.

Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain’s medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never practiced again. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them.

There are things we would all do for a loved one with a drug addiction to pain killers. I do not hold that against John McCain.Arizona is a no tolerance state, and even the smallest amount of cannabis will cause you major legal problems in AZ.

For people to lose their jobs, their livelihoods and yet Cindy had no blowback…well, only a well-connected husband could insure that.

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