Rape joke returns to torment McCain campaign
Republican nominee John McCain has had to cancel a fundraiser at the home of his good friend, Clayton Williams, after remarks Williams made twenty years ago came to light. Comparing the weather to rape, Williams stated:"As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
The McCain team are doing all in their power to distance themselves from this:
I wonder if there will now be calls for McCain to end his friendship with Williams - as we witnessed calls for Obama to end his relationship with Reverend Wright - and whether we will witness newspapers agonising over how McCain could have been friends with someone for such a long period of time and not known about his propensity to make such remarks.Following the resurrection of this and other off-colour remarks, the McCain campaign decided abruptly to cancel the fundraiser at Mr Williams's lavish Midland home. The campaign is also promising to hand back the $300,000 (£150,000) Mr Williams has already raised for the McCain campaign as it tried to contain the damage.
Mr McCain's spokesman, Brian Rogers, said: "These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time [the fundraiser] was scheduled."
I also wonder how the Clinton supporters (who have vowed to vote for McCain rather than Obama) feel this morning knowing that McCain is great friends with someone who can so casually make gags of this kind.
It really does take a certain kind of mindset to joke that rape is something which one could ever "lie back and enjoy".
And yet that is the company that certain Clinton supporters now find themselves in.
Mrs Clinton's supporters are also aware of a tasteless joke Mr McCain made about Chelsea Clinton's looks in 1998. While the mainstream US media deemed it "too vicious to print", Mr McCain's remarks at another Republican fundraiser still echo round the internet. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" he asked his guests. It was, he said,"because her father is Janet Reno [US attorney general under President Bill Clinton]."The US mainstream press have also been reluctant to report that McCain has publicly used the C word to describe his own wife. But it's all out there if any Clinton supporter really wants to find it.
Which makes the company these feminists are keeping all the more bizarre.
I know they are very angry that Obama stopped Hillary becoming the first ever female US president, but they really shouldn't be supporting a man who wants to overturn Roe vs Wade, and they certainly shouldn't find themselves in the company of the kind of people who make jokes implying that rape is something which one can "lie back and enjoy".
Perhaps now is the time to reconsider. Especially as McCain isn't even upset enough to actually cancel the fundraiser as claimed, he's simply moved it to another venue.
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