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Meet The Nice Wife McCain Dumped For Cindy

John McCain is such a maverick that nobody believes he’s really a Republican, but in the “abandoning your ailing wife for a new young wife” department, McCain is 100% GOP. We will hear lots more about Carol McCain, the swimsuit model Walnuts married when Barack Obama was almost four years old and divorced when Barack Obama was still in high school! But will we see more of her? This is the only known picture of John and Carol.


11:50 AM on Mon June 9 2008
By Ken Layne
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  1. ronaldpagan says at 11:54 am, June 9th, 2008

    There have to be some pictures of when she was a swimsuit model.

  2. MadMangosteen says at 11:54 am, June 9th, 2008

    “That’s not matrimony we can believe in…meeeheheheh.”

  3. OMG! My husband dumped me, his ailing wife, for a sweet young thing. Does that mean my soon to be ex-husband, a die in the wool Republican, is going to run for president?

  4. sleepy says at 11:57 am, June 9th, 2008

    ronaldpagan: i, for one, would pay upwards of $1 (american) to see same.

  5. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:57 am, June 9th, 2008

    …Im surprised anyone was able to even find this photo, considering the fact that back then people still believed cameras stole your soul.

  6. ManchuCandidate says at 11:58 am, June 9th, 2008
  7. tunamelt says at 11:59 am, June 9th, 2008

    Every picture I see of him when he was young makes me think how good-looking he was.

  8. choinski says at 11:59 am, June 9th, 2008

    Meh, I got nuthin.

  9. norbizness says at 12:01 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Steve Martin and an overweight Gilda Radner? You’ll have to do better than that, Photoshop.

  10. loudmouthredhead says at 12:01 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Are you sure he didn’t just pit her against Cindy in gladiatorial combat for his sexual pleasure and selection of the fittest mate for his hog? I mean, that was back when thumbs up meant you could live right? Guess we know who won then…..

  11. MoodProcessor says at 12:02 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I didn’t know Sally Struthers a brunette…

  12. ronaldpagan says at 12:02 pm, June 9th, 2008

    MadMangosteen: ManchuCandidate: I just pissed myself laughing at both of these. Thanks kids!

  13. WadISay says at 12:03 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: How about some pictures of that Brazilian chick McCain was supposedly slipping the kielbasa to at one point (and screen shots from Apocolypto don’t count).

  14. MoodProcessor says at 12:04 pm, June 9th, 2008

    MoodProcessor: was…aw, shucks….

  15. V572625694 says at 12:04 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: Rickrolled again!

  16. metropolitan says at 12:05 pm, June 9th, 2008

    my overweight, medically dependent injured wife for a 25 year old cindy mccain? that’s change i can believe in.

  17. The Real JR Revisted says at 12:06 pm, June 9th, 2008

    One good angle to combat all of the Clintards professing to vote for McCain is to keep this backstory on perpetual loop.

    Womanizing?
    Wife waiting for missing husband?
    Disfiguring accident?
    Husband returns to find loving wife crippled, heavier and shorter?
    More womanizing?
    Leaves wife and family for younger blond hottie with a rich and influential daddy?
    Wife still holding flame for dick ex-husband?
    “Cunt” in his casual vernacular?

    This is Team Aniston times 100.
    This is a Lifetime movie times 1000.

    Harriet Christian wouldn’t have to worry about being a second class citizen in a McCain world… she’ll be a disposable vagina with a short shelf life and no continuity, especially if she develops a cough or a pimple.

  18. loudmouthredhead says at 12:07 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: What is that, a woodcarving? I think I see a hint of ankle! What a sloot! That’s why Walnuts! left her…

  19. HopeNutz says at 12:08 pm, June 9th, 2008

    For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of John MCain.

  20. bitchincamaro says at 12:09 pm, June 9th, 2008
  21. MadMangosteen says at 12:09 pm, June 9th, 2008

    also, he didn’t dump her ass on a hospital bed so I guess WALNUTS! has one up on Gingrich

  22. AngryBlakGuy says at 12:09 pm, June 9th, 2008

    …I didn’t know John McCain had a cameo on McHale’s Navy?!

  23. HopeNutz says at 12:10 pm, June 9th, 2008

    HopeNutz: Erg. McCain.

  24. ManchuCandidate says at 12:10 pm, June 9th, 2008

    WadISay:

    See, this is who I’d wanna be schelpping if I were a younger Walnuts.

    http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2006/10/octeigh24.jpg

    But this is the most youthful photo I could find.

    http://www.stripersonline.com/fish_photos/data/500/old-lady-hitit.jpg

  25. Darehead says at 12:11 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Duddn’t matter. Barry’s dad was a scary Muslim polygamist. So there.

  26. SayItWithWookies says at 12:13 pm, June 9th, 2008

    See, this is why Barry is better — in Islam you can marry the hot younger cookie and keep the older worn out model.

  27. econdave says at 12:13 pm, June 9th, 2008

    What I want to know is what happened to Carol’s first husband. The Mail article makes it sound like he went out to get the newspaper and never came back. If she dumped her first for Walnuts!, I don’t feel quite as bad for Carol.

    Still, getting remarried a month after you get divorced? Show a little class John.

  28. lawrenceofthedesert says at 12:21 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I didn’t know Matthew Brady shot homecomings.

  29. AngryBlakGuy says at 12:22 pm, June 9th, 2008

    WadISay: …I think you can find a photo of “her” on a Brazilian She-male website.

  30. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:22 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Did he share this information with the Vietnamese as well?

  31. floraway says at 12:23 pm, June 9th, 2008
  32. Darehead says at 12:23 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Maybe Carol was having an affair with Mrs. Coleman, since they were both scantily-clad models married to jerks. If you axe me though, Norm is the bigger jerk.

  33. The Real JR Revisted says at 12:24 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Also, back to the teeth thing, granted this is a black and white photo (because as we all know, Jesus didn’t invent ROYGBIV until acid was in lickable form) but seeing that this is post-POW, his teeth look fine so there’s no excuse for him to be walking around now in decrepit yellow fronts that look like they smell. Unless he had them made from the bones of his former captors which then makes him bad ass.

  34. Darehead says at 12:25 pm, June 9th, 2008

    floraway: Little Bo Peep?

  35. ManchuCandidate: almost made me spit take. Thanks!

    I think the multiple wife thing is a sop to Mormonism, so he doesn’t need Romney on the ticket.

    Reading about Carol, if McCain were to get two terms, I’d vote for Carol to be senator of New York and eventually president instead of Cindy. If I were a Republican that is…

  36. Doglessliberal says at 12:26 pm, June 9th, 2008

    my favorite line in the Daily Mail article is this: “His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed ‘Marie, the Flame of Florida’, to a tobacco heiress.”

  37. Doglessliberal says at 12:26 pm, June 9th, 2008

    floraway: why is she dressed as Little Bo Peep?

  38. The Real JR Revisted says at 12:26 pm, June 9th, 2008

    floraway: Excellent find. Gold star for you.

  39. Gopherit v2.0 says at 12:28 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I just want to be the first person in recorded history (before mud tablets cuneform, anyway) to say this:

    Ross Perot is the MAN!!

  40. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 12:28 pm, June 9th, 2008

    floraway: Interesting. You see the reason she gave for the divorce? the divorce was attributed “. . . more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again.” Now that he’s turning 150, Cindy might want to watch her back.

  41. Darehead says at 12:29 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Doglessliberal: Maybe she’s a Paultard who lost her sheeple.

  42. norbizness: They forgot Steve’s balloon animals.

  43. Anita Cocktail says at 12:32 pm, June 9th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: first you have to have a soul to steal.

  44. Anita Cocktail says at 12:32 pm, June 9th, 2008

    loudmouthredhead: I think it was selection of the fittest bank account.

  45. upperleft says at 12:34 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I’m not surprised his teeth are discolored, considering the shit that has been coming out of his
    mouth for all these years.

  46. floraway says at 12:37 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Darehead: Doglessliberal: I don’t know… something about sheeple?

  47. Shypixel says at 12:38 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I’m only posting here in protest of my inability to comment on the Roman Polanski topic.

  48. Doglessliberal says at 12:38 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Darehead: speaking of Paultards, I love that a right wing Repub running in VA is accusing his Repub challenger of being a Paultard (and “accidentally” attributing the “quote” to the WaPost):
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701801.html

  49. Darehead says at 12:39 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Is it just me, or does Carol look better after the accident?
    I think she doesn’t look bad in that first photo, and doesn’t even look “crippled.” But the wedding…..

  50. pondscum says at 12:40 pm, June 9th, 2008

    econdave: Why are they always in such a hurry to marry the next one? Is the sex somehow better when you’re married? Not sex with the spouse….just sex in general.
    Still, classier than a guy I know who got divorced on one floor of the courthouse and married on another…on the same day.

  51. freakishlystrong says at 12:41 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Me wonders if he ever called the first a cunt and a trollop?

  52. bitchincamaro says at 12:49 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate:

    er…”schtupping”, I hope.

  53. Johnny_Zhivago says at 12:52 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ronaldpagan: Not really, since we’re talking about the days before photography.

  54. Whore Diamond in the Rough says at 12:55 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ronaldpagan: sleepy: Well, she does look better than Cindy.

  55. S.Luggo says at 12:56 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: Schtupping, not schlepping. See example: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5958

  56. S.Luggo says at 12:57 pm, June 9th, 2008

    BTW, who the fuck is “admin” and how can we get at him?

  57. Canuckledragger says at 12:59 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Question: Since WALNUTS! could still raise his hands above his head to wave to wellwishers when he deplaned from the Hanoi Hilton Shuttle, why can he not raise his hands above belt-level now? Years of stooping too low in the Senate?

    The Real JR Revisted: “his teeth look fine so there’s no excuse for him to be walking around now in decrepit yellow fronts that look like they smell.”

    WALNUTS! thought that in order to become President like his hero and classmate, George Washington, he too should have wooden teeth. It was the fashion, back in the day. WALNUTS! picked a sturdy elm. Fuckin’ Dutch Elm disease!

    econdave: “What I want to know is what happened to Carol’s first husband.”

    Carol says: “Once he turned 25, he wanted to be ten again. I got tired of him dipping my pigtails in the inkwell.”

  58. norbizness says at 12:59 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I even saw the lights of the Hindenburg blimp…

    … it said John McCain’s a OH THE HUMANITY

  59. ManchuCandidate says at 1:01 pm, June 9th, 2008

    S.Luggo:
    bitchincamaro:

    Oy. My Yiddish to English dictionary failed me.

    I’m just a sad goy.

  60. jagorev says at 1:01 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Since we’re posting pictures of candidate spouses in swimsuits, here’s Billary:

    http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/blog/blog_images/billHillDance.jpg

    I’m so sorry.

  61. Gormogon says at 1:16 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Canuckledragger: His arm is raised only perpindicular to his shoulder. That might have been his limit at the time. Doubtful he can even reach that high now.

    econdave: Cindy McCain’s booze-money family is very intertwined with organized crime. I’m sure disappearing the first husband was no problem.

  62. Well, yes, that *is* ‘marital transcendence’.

  63. mrtrailsafety says at 1:28 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Walnuts chose Cindy because…he stayed on after 8 seconds and then got the buckle. It’s called “Sex Rodeo”…

  64. Mabalz Izhari says at 1:38 pm, June 9th, 2008

    I recently saw a photo of Cindy with her hair down and less coiffed, and she had a striking resemblance to Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies. I’m sure she has to sleep in her makeup because there is a super-hag under all that spackle and bondo.

  65. WadISay says at 1:51 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: Extremely funny!

  66. madirishman says at 2:02 pm, June 9th, 2008

    jagorev: Baby got BACK…

  67. forgot my id says at 2:04 pm, June 9th, 2008

    How many cunt trollops does one party boy navy brat need?
    What about family values I ask you ?

  68. Gregory_of_Nazianzus says at 2:10 pm, June 9th, 2008
  69. SocialList says at 2:15 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Jesus Christ,by the looks of this pic,the guy has been old forever.

  70. bitchincamaro says at 2:45 pm, June 9th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate:

    Me too, but living in NYC, it seeps in.

  71. Whore Diamond in the Rough says at 2:53 pm, June 9th, 2008

    Gregory_of_Nazianzus: Damn, even Ross Perot thinks he’s a shithead.

    Hey, I can still “adore” someone too if they were paying for my healthcare for life, especially since it’s so expensive in the US. You’d think WALNUTS! would want universal healthcare for that reason alone.

  72. forgot my id says at 3:53 pm, June 9th, 2008

    In his book The Real McCain, author Cliff Schecter claims that John McCain made extremely ugly remarks about his wife Cindy McCain during a tirade witnessed by three reporters and two aides. “At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, ‘You’re getting a little thin up there,’” Schechter writes. “McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, ‘At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.’ McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.”

  73. liquiddaddy says at 5:00 pm, June 9th, 2008

    The photo is cropped, holmes. That lady is the hostess down at the El Tampico.

  74. schvitzatura says at 10:51 pm, June 9th, 2008

    The real reason, is not the post-nonseatbeltwearingwindshieldejection weight gain…it was the goddamned trompe-l’œil Carol insisted painting all over the McCain domicile:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/galleries/lifeofmccain/photo10.htm

  75. Constance says at 5:54 am, June 10th, 2008

    I think divorcing poor firstwife and marrying rick secondwife one month later simply gave Johnnywalker time to get to know his secondwife’s money, I mean, family better. What a guy.

  76. Securicom says at 10:49 am, June 10th, 2008

    Songbird McCain is a Mancurian candidate!

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    projected onto an unsuspecting populace by a government that may have finally crossed the line from a representative republic to a fascist empire. From the USA PATRIOT Act and the blatant disregard for the Bill of Rights to the outright tracking of every human being on the planet earth, you will be stunned by what U.S. government documents describe for the future of America. undersiegemoviedotcom

    USA’s Constitution and currency are being destroyed from within. How? Videos free on Google Video 1) America: Freedom to Fascism, 2 hrs; 2)911 Justice, 18min; 3) The Clinton Chronicles, 1.7 hrs; 4) Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, 2 hrs, 5) Terrorstorm: A History of False Flag Terror, 2 hrs 6) 911 Mysteries, 2 hrs; 7)The Creature from Jekyll Island, 1hr; 8)Orwell Rolls in His Grave, 2hrs; 9) The War on Democracy, 1.5 hrs; 10) The Energy Non-Crisis, 1 hr; 11)Iraq for Sale 1.2 hr; 12) Zeitgeist, 2 hrs; 13)Ring of Power, 2.5 hrs; 14)Bush link to JFK, 1.5 hrs; 15) The Century of the Self, 4 hrs; 16) Loose Change (2nd ed & Final cut) 2hrs each; 17)John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World; 18) The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America, 3.5 hrs Videos free on http://www.video.google.com 19) Barack Obama CFR info 20) Global Warming or Global Governance 21) The Great Global Warming Swindle 22)Mercury, Autism and The Global Vaccine Agenda 23) The CIA, Mind Control and Satanism 24)George Hunt: UN UNCED Earth Summit 1992 (Population Reduction) 25) End of NAtions - EU Takeover 26) Washington, You’re Fired 27) Blackwater: America’s Private Army 28) Esoteric Agenda 29) Fiat Empire:
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  77. starstream says at 4:41 pm, June 12th, 2008

    Hrm must be in the stock market , that’s typical trading up..

  78. whomper says at 1:21 am, August 1st, 2008

    Anyone critical of McCain regarding this story wanna have a go at John Edwards?

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