McCain May Or May Not Have Voted For Bush

I've resisted writing about the brouhaha around whether or not John McCain voted for George Bush in 2000.  It just seems like a ridiculous waste of time, but there is one intriguing element of the story.

Arianna Huffington created a stir early this week when she reported she heard John say at a Los Angeles dinner party shortly after the 2000 election that he had not voted for President Bush.  (By the way, that makes something John McCain and I have in common).

The McCain campaign responded quickly:

“She’s a flake and a poser and an attention-seeking diva,” Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest aides, told The Washington Post.

As far as I'm concerned, the story actually benefits McCain.  On the one hand he can easily pooh pooh the whole thing by calling Arianna Huffington, someone despised anyway by the Republicans, a bunch of rude names.  Republicans, after all, would never believe Arianna Huffington when they have John McCain saying otherwise.  And on other hand, Independents and more conservative Democrats might believe Huffington and feel this gives McCain some street cred; "what a rebel, not even voting for the leader of his party".

But here's what I find interesting about the whole story:  What the heck are John and Cindy McCain doing at a party at Candice Bergen's house in Beverly Hills, hobnobbing with Huffington and noted liberal actors Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff?  Is this the McCain's social circle?

Just asking...