… was in his pants!

Reading this Times article about McCain’s totallypropernonoyoudon’tunderstand relationship with hot lobbyist Vicki Isengard, I was struck by something:

Mr. McCain earned the lasting animosity of many conservatives, who argue that his push for fund-raising restrictions trampled free speech, and of many of his Senate colleagues, who bristled that he was preaching to them so soon after his own repentance. In debates, his party’s leaders challenged him to name a single senator he considered corrupt (he refused)…

Mr. McCain appeared motivated less by the usual ideas about good governance than by a more visceral disapproval of the gifts, meals and money that influence seekers shower on lawmakers, Mr. Feingold said. “It had to do with his sense of honor,” he said. “He saw this stuff as cheating.”

Does that remind you of anything so much as Ted Haggard’s relationship to homosexuality? Could it be that when McCain found religion on ethics it was a strange, guilt-induced attempt to exorcise those demons that had compelled him to accept those sweet, sweet favors from lobbyists?

Let me be the first to say it: is the man addicted to perks?

Because if so? Awesome. Even his hypocrisy is maverick!