9th
Fun With Family Values
“But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
…When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.
But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance.”
The rest — including meeting richie-rich rodeo beauty queen Cindy and flying around the country in pursuit of her while still married to his children’s disabled mother — can be found here. Yeah, it’s the Daily Mail. Yeah, I’m sinking to the equally gross fucking levels of Republicanish past-bashing and Daily Mail-reading. I don’t care. I’m not running for shit.
