“…at a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant:
McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women.
“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
As a reader emails, “Miss Buffalo Chip has ‘been known to feature topless women’ in the same way that Guns and Ammo magazine has been known to feature firearms.” Indeed, an ESPN.com columnist describes it as “occasionally bottomless.”

I’ve written before about McCain’s risque line-towing, but I’m wondering if new campaign advisor Steve Schmidt (who helped foster the “I’d rather have a beer with Bush” phenomenon in 2004 and made John Kerry French) has been taking McCain out to Hooters in Virginia Beach as part of message training.

Between the belligerent yodeling –”We have to drill here and drill now“–and offering up his wife for a cash prize I’m wondering if this is McCain’s attempt to channel the elusive white male voter he so needs to win?

More at Huffington Post….