McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.

In his 2002 memoir, Worth the Fighting For, McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.

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An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had “cohabited” until Jan. 7 of that year — or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.

You apply for a wedding license to a millionaire blonde while still married to the mother of your children, and then write a memoir that out-and-out lies about it?

More straight talk from a true maverick.

While we’re at it, more of McCain’s strange version of straight talk can be viewed here (where he literally squirms with discomfort while dodging simple questions about birth control), here, here, here, here, here, and (in a couple of nice roundups, because I don’t have all day) here and here.