Remember Jim Gibbons? The Nevada Republican Governor who hid his illegal nanny in his basement, allegedly made a drunken pass at a cocktail waitress in a parking garage, and supposedly took kickbacks from a defense contractor when he was in Congress? That one?
Well, the good Governor has been back in the news lately. His wife Dawn filed for divorce, kicked him out of the Governor's mansion, and filed papers against him complete with exhaustive, seedy detail. They've since agreed to share the mansion and the guest house, but there may also be an ex-playmate involved somehow.
Anyway...
Long story short, John McCain was asked by a Nevada pundit the obvious but necessary question of why he didn't choose Governor Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign. Via Tapper:
"I appreciate his support," McCain said. "As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman."Why snub the governor? Ralston asked.
"I didn't mean to snub him,. I've known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we've been good friends," McCain said. "I didn't intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman."
Maybe it's the governor's approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.
Said McCain, chuckling, "And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago."
Yeah.
As Tapper notes, McCain was referencing the now-cliche joke question "When did you stop beating your wife, senator?"
But, you know, still.
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