John McCain Has Spent A Few Nights In Brazil, Via Brazilian Model

Perennial heartbreaker and current goblin John McCain spoke yesterday at his old stomping grounds, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, churning out political rhetoric and reminiscing back to when, a hundred years prior, he tormented fellow students. However, he failed to regale audiences with steamy tales of love and lust, cachaça and cuddling. Turns out McCain had some McGame [Ed. note: Sorry.] with a Brazilian model way, way, way, way back when:

In his 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,” McCain wrote about “excessive drinking, nightclubbing and little or no sleep” and said, “My imagination could not have embellished the good time we made of our nine days in port.”

Exhausted from his full-throttle social life, McCain nonetheless rallied to attend one last party. On that fateful night, he met a Brazilian model. (Alas, her name is withheld in several retellings.) A few days after the pair met, McCain had to set sail again—but the moment he returned home, he repacked his bag and jumped aboard a military plane back to Rio. They kept up a furious correspondence through the fall.

Throttle? Furiously? Someone has clearly been reading our LiveJournal.

While McCain’s recounting of their whirlwind courtship is entertaining (“I kissed her to a chorus of rowdy cheers from my shipmates,” he writes) a far more salacious version appears in Robert Timberg’s “John McCain: An American Odyssey.”

During Christmas leave, Timberg writes, McCain traveled back to Brazil for a four-day visit. However, the pair was always accompanied by the wealthy model’s aunt or servant—until the last night of his visit.

McCain went to the model’s house for dinner but found the door unlocked. He let himself in and heard a voice call from the bedroom, “I’ll be right out.” When the model appeared, “she was not, McCain would later say, dressed for dinner,” Timberg wrote.

McCain’s life reads suspiciously like something in Penthouse Forum. Did the model have an identical twin sister with an insatiable hunger… for feijoada?

After that night, he never saw her again. Upon graduating from the Naval Academy, however, he received a short telegram from the model that read, “I’ll always love you.”

Yeah. That’s what all Brazilian models say.

McCain and the Model [Wall Street Journal]