Election 2004

The McCain smear -- a Tom Ridge connection?

We tend to buy Vanity Fair every other month or so, but we're definitely going to pick up the November issue, and not just for the latest Princess Di conspiracy theories. According to the New York Daily News, there's an excellent and timely re-visiting of the atrocious smear campaign that the Bush people pulled on John McCain in 2000. (No links -- Vanity Fair doesn't do that sort of thing).

The most surprising thing in the NYDN synopsis is the hint that an aide to political-Boy-Scout Tom Ridge -- who was the two-term governor of Pennsylvania -- had something to do with the malicious gossip that McCain's wife has a drug problem or that the Arizona senator had fathered a black child.

Here's the anecdote -- of course, it's impossible to confirm, or to find out if someone who was smearing McCain was falsely claiming a Ridge tie that didn't exist:

Francis Marion University political scientist Neal Thigpen recounted that shortly before the primary election, he received a phone call from a man who said "he was on leave from Gov. Tom Ridge's staff in Pennsylvania and down here working on the Bush campaign."

"The man said, 'I understand you're for McCain,' and I said, 'Yes,' " Thigpen recounted, "and he proceeded to tell me that Cindy was a drug addict and this kind of stuff."

We will post an update if there's any more on this.


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