VIDEO: The Iseman cometh back: "I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain"

By GottaLaff

"I did not have sexual relations with that man... Gramm-pa McCain." I'm pretty sure this isn't something Grammps McTongue wants re-circulating 19 days before the Big Election:

A female telecommunications lobbyist who became part of an explosive story early this year about John McCain has broken months of silence to deny the main subtext of the account - that she was suspected of being romantically involved with the Republican presidential candidate. "I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain," Vicky Iseman told the National Journal magazine.

Iseman was the subject of an article by The New York Times in February that said in 1999 McCain aides worried that the Arizona senator and the lobbyist may be having an affair.[...]

Weaver was quoted in The Times acknowledging meeting with Iseman while working as a strategist for McCain in 1999. He told the newspaper that McCain's political team worried that as a lobbyist close to the Arizona senator she might hurt his image as a fighter against special interests. [Laffy is now stifling laughter]

But her public emergence, coming less than three weeks before the election, also serves to remind the public about a story that had receded from memory. When the story broke, the allegations of sex and influence-peddling caused a sensation. McCain furiously denied the story and described Iseman as merely a friend. [...] Since then, McCain's relationship with the media has grown increasingly cool.

Paddy originally posted about it here. The video above is from February 2008.

Timing is everything.