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"As Cindy McCain faithfully shadows her husband... it's hard to imagine that she was once the senior member of their partnership."

Noam Scheiber has a long article in TNR on Cindy McCain:

Looking back, McCain's steady march from admiral's son to war hero to White House contender seems almost preordained--certainly unrelated to the brittle blond cipher at his side. Cindy brings to mind the political wives of yore--a perpetually demure and deferential presence. All the more so in an age of Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama.

But the reality behind this political creation myth is far more complex. McCain was a relative nobody when he married Cindy Hensley--a middle-aged divorcé working a mid-level job in a far-off bureaucracy. It was the Hensleys who would breathe life into his prospects and provide a springboard for his ascent. Their ambitions burned every bit as brightly as his did. Except that, unlike McCain, they'd long since hidden their motives from public view.

You'll have to read the whole thing to see if he proves his thesis.

And here's the 1982 campaign ad included at the link:

Full post as published by Althouse on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).