Mr. Morals McCain comes to town

After a weenies and cream social, this coming Sunday, Senator John McCain will presume to propound a brand of sexual morality that he never quite got the hang of, even when he was married.

The Arizona lawmaker is scheduled to speak Sunday night to about 1,500 middle and high school students about abstaining from premarital sex. Abstinence and abortion loom large as issues in this first-in-the-South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.

"Senator McCain has a long legislative record of supporting abstinence-based initiatives in his record in the U.S. Senate," said Trey Walker, McCain's South Carolina campaign director. "He thinks that abstinence is healthier and should be promoted in our society for young people."

Source: McCain to Preach Abstinence in S.C., by JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press

Keep your tallywhackers in your trousers and your hooha in your hipters, kids!

That's interesting advice, coming from this man:

McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, "aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich." McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife's family money.

Source: High Infidelity, by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly

Some people parody their own doctrines, which makes life a lot easier on their ideological critics.

Have a terrific weekend.

•  "We bring the

  Ass Whuppin," John McCain brought the Ass.

  by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 12:53:23 PM PDT

•  Wish the kids were informed enough to protest him

  Just one kid to stand up and yell "Hypocrite!" with the crowd joining with a chorus right afterward.

  by carneasadaburrito on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 12:54:01 PM PDT

  •  Maybe a parent will call him on it

    I wouldn't leave my child alone in a room with a Republican vying for high office. ;)

    by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 12:58:29 PM PDT

    •  Are you going to attend

      this event?  It would be interesting to get a first-hand report.  

      Maybe you should put McCain's name in your title.  The diary might get more attention.  I found it very interesting.

      McCain is such an unbelievable hypocrite.  He doesn't seem to have any real values.

      by Boston Boomer on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 01:50:42 PM PDT

      •  Nah

        I won't be there, although I'd pay to see the look on his face if someone did call him on this.

        Even though it's on the front page, I'll go ahead and alter the title for searches later.

        by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:49:51 PM PDT

    •  They seem to be

      even more dangerous once they get elected...

      by litho on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:25:10 PM PDT

•  skips the 'meaningless' iraq vote

  but makes it a priority to stump for abstinence-only education.

  typical republican.

  by kindertotenlieder on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 12:58:59 PM PDT

  •  An insight into his presidential priorities

    Wouldn't you say?

    by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 01:02:50 PM PDT

    •  Pandering Coward.

      That is what McCain is.

      Well, maybe he's a Cowardly Panderer if you want to take it in chronological order this weekend.

      by inclusiveheart on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 03:57:49 PM PDT

•  Why, exactly, does this type of

  info not make it into the MSM? Aren't we supposed to be fascinated and riveted by this kind of scandalous crap? You know, big ratings increases, $$$$?

  Stupid question, I know. I'm sick of it, that's all. It seems like one f'n editor at some big sell rag would grow a pair, that's all.

  by Unduna on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 12:59:38 PM PDT

  •  It's re-dickless

    I know.

    by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 01:04:49 PM PDT

  •  Because they're bought&sold little whores

    who know how their john likes it. The money says to suck Publican dick, and they do it with enthusiasm.

    by khereva on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 01:08:34 PM PDT

    •  Isn't that

      "Republic dick"?

      by litho on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:26:05 PM PDT

•  so apparently McCain's message is:

  Save it until marriage...then have sex with whomever you want...

  by ontario159 on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:04:48 PM PDT

  •  He has a very broad

    interpretation of abstention.

    Marital vows? Eh, not so much. Congressional oversight? Even less.

    He is, literally and figuratively, a f^cking mess.

    by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:56:17 PM PDT

•  Do any of you wonder

  why I call him McShame?  I can just hear him now, "do as I say, kids, not as I do."

  by oibme on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 02:16:31 PM PDT

•  Would love to hand out condoms outside.

  by ben masel on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 03:00:41 PM PDT

•  Does his abstinence plan include...

  ...bending over for the likes of GWB and Jerry Falwell?

  Because he seems to have a lot of grease up his Straight Talk Express lately.

  by Gutterboy on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 03:11:10 PM PDT

  •  I'd have a lot more respect for McCain

    if he'd just ask Bush and Falwell to have sex with him, instead of pretending to be an authority on morality.

    Besides McCain's head so far up his own arse I'm not sure either of the burning bush types would find room for a romp.  

    by Kimberley on Sat Feb 17, 2007 at 03:35:03 PM PDT