Fighter Pilot Chases Skirts!!

This is the best the New York Times can offer in their too-predictable delayed attack? A couple of disgruntled former employees claim that John McCain got a little flirtatious with a lady lobbiest?

If that's as far as it went, both in terms of the quid pro quo and the pas de deux - then I, for one, admire the guy more than I did yesterday. Any red-blooded American fighter jock with a "maverick" reputation who doesn't notice the ladies might as well move up to Soviet Canada with his wingman.

Something tells me Cindy McCain is nonplussed.

The New York Times is like a dinosaur stuck in a mud pit. Plummeting circulation and perennially dropping shareholder value will eventually force a fateful end to the venerable publication. But it looks like before the Grey Lady finally expires she's going to assert her relevance by turning a few cheap tricks in the back room.

The story this morning is how this effort by the NYT is laughably transparent. The other story I think we'll see developing is how the more the press goes after him, and the more he takes on the Democrats directly, the more Republicans are going to fall in to support McCain.