Keep This Man Away From The Web!

It's one thing to be proud of one's wife, but not in the manner of offering her up for a beauty pageant (video is of the bikini competition), as John McCain did at the Miss Buffalo Chip Pageant. And so it was that at the annual motorcyle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota John McCain read from a prepared script:

I was looking at the Sturgis schedule, and noticed that you had a beauty pageant, so I encouraged Cindy to compete. I told her [that] with a little luck, she could be the only woman to serve as both the First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.

Jim Caples at espn.com paints a provocative picture of the pageant:

Buffalo Chip has a reputation for that sort of thing. It holds a Miss Buffalo Chip contest every night, which is essentially a topless beauty pageant. And occasionally bottomless, too. During a drenching rain Wednesday night, the contest broke up into smaller groups and one woman wound up dancing naked on a bar top. Her boyfriend/husband saw her and angrily dragged her away as she struggled to put her pants back on and muttered something about how, "It's only this one week a year."

There is much consternation in liberal blogs that John McCain has little familiarity with the Internet. There should not be.