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John McCain seems to be determined to establish himself as the unquestioned king of political pandering for all time.

Attending a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, McCain joked about having his wife Cindy strut her stuff in public. This is the same lady who he once angrily called a c*nt in public; or, to be precise, a trollop and a c*nt.

CNN (the most trusted name in watered down news) reported:

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.”

The statement “that’s been known to feature topless women” apparently is not quite the whole truth. For that we have to turn to the most trusted name in sports news, apparently. Here, via TPM, is ESPN with the skinny:

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.”

And a TPM reader volunteers this fond reminiscence:

I grew up in Western South Dakota, and can tell you that “topless, and occasionally bottomless” barely scratches the surface on Miss Buffalo Chip. There were always rumors about underage contestants and on-stage sex–that was simply what Buffalo Chip stood for in the collective unconscious of teenage boys in the Rapid City area. This amounts to John McCain volunteering his wife for a Girls Gone Wild video. Quite a lady’s man, that McCain…

And to think that with just a little luck, Cindy McCain could have been Miss Buffalo Chip! (First Lady will take more than luck, it’ll take a bloody miracle. And, yes, I still believe that, despite all the polls.)