What would happen with the Republican nomination if McCain was to drop out/dead at this point?
Smoke-filled room deal in St. Paul. The delegates already elected for McCain would still have the right to go to the convention, but, unable to vote for their candidate, would be wheeled and dealed by the other guys. It definitely doesn’t just pass to Huckabee by default.
There are NO smoke filled rooms in St. Paul, unless the building is on fire.
Something his Vietnamese hosts never did give him permission to spit out.
I think it is fair to say two things - that McCain’s surgery may have contributed to his cheek looking puffier.
However, even without surgery and cancer, his cheeks were bound to look a little different. Note that this picture is thirty-four years old.
People are just built differently. Editorial cartoonists will concentrate on these cheeks the same way they do Obama’s ears and Bill Clinton’s nose.
It’s not that his cheeks are naturally puffy though, its asymmetrical, his left cheek has an obvious growth or bump. Looking up the news articles from when he had melanoma, the growth was removed from his left temple in 2000, so I’m guessing its scarring from that.
It could be from treatment with steroids. I know someone who underwent steroid treatment for ulcerative colitis in her teens, and to this day (she’s 39) she has hypertrophy of the jaw muscles. It is more pronounced on one side, giving rise to the same sort of “lump” that McCain has. Of course, this is just speculation; I know McCain has had medical problems, but I don’t know what they are or what treatments he has had.
Holy shit.
John McCain was hot.
For crying out loud, www.talkturkey.us - light years is a measure of distance. Way to go, you just blew your chances of me taking anything you ever write seriously.
He dated a stripper sometime in the mid-1970s.
We Navy vets aren’t generally shy and retiring types. 
Generally resulting in us Navy nurses rolling our eyes and getting out the IM Bicillin…
I had heard the story about reagan’s early signs of senility. but also, regarding bill Clinton: there was a story going around, that bill clinton refused to make his medical history public. The story i heard was that Clinton had a deviated nasal septum, from some 9unknown0 cause.
Most of us have a deviated septum from a known cause called birth.