John McCain love child? Famous cartoon artist says: “He’s my dad and
I’ll take a polygraph to prove it”
By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report
A 54-year-old cartoon artist says he’ll take a polygraph test to prove
that he is Sen. John McCain’s love child from a tryst the presidential
candidate enjoyed with a coffee-shop waitress in 1954.
And make no mistake: cartoonist Dick Kulpa is a dead ringer for McCain, who is now
72 and would have been just 18 when his alleged out-of-wedlock son was born.
“I hope to meet my dad before he is elected president,” Kulpa told www.yourworldreport.com exclusively.
“I know he’ll be super busy after his inauguration, and I’d be
lying if I said I wasn’t hoping to spend some quality time with him after he moves
into the White House with his wife (Cindy McCain) and Vice President Sarah Palin.
“It’s hard to say describe how I’m feeling now that I’ve
found out the truth about my dad. It probably will sound trite to most people,
but I just want to be with him.
“I want to do all the stuff we missed out on when I was growing up in foster
care, you know, tossing a baseball in the park, going to the movies and football
games together, vegeing out in front of the TV, going on the
Internet … the things most kids take for granted.”
When the love child bombshell hit late Monday night, republicans generally and the
McCain campaign specifically launched into damage control.
Within hours, campaign insiders were calling print pundits and cable news
shows in a frenzied attempt to marginalize Kulpa and debunk his
love-child claim, with one campaign insider reportedly telling a CNN producer:
“Even if Senator McCain did have a love child, there’s no way anybody can
prove it without DNA testing - and that ain’t going to happen before the election.
“This will blow over. Just give it a day or two and nobody will remember this,
what’s his name … Dick Luper?”
Democrats, however, as you might imagine, are tickled pink with
the brewing scandal, and they have seized on the allegation
to remind voters that McCain wasn’t always the soft-spoken,
great-grandfatherly saint he seems to be today.
In his youth McCain was, in fact, a self-confessed wild man who partied
hearty and enjoyed his nights out on the town.
As he candidly told television’s Meet the Press in
1999, ”Back then, I had my fun … but I’m an old man now and those
days are gone.”
In making such statements in the context of eye-winking “boy’s
club” interviews with the mainstream media’s talking heads - many of whom
are personal friends of the senator - McCain seemingly was referring only to boozy
nights out with pals from the Naval Academy, when he was still in school, and after that,
on leave from the U.S. Navy or during time off from the U.S. Senate.
It’s true the senator has expressed deep regret and remorse over a series of
brazen affairs he engaged in while married to his first wife, Carol. But Kulpa’s
claim that he is McCain’s love child, if true, would suggest there was far more
sexual misconduct than the press and public have been led to believe.
Kulpa declined to say how he came to find out the senator is - according
to Kulpa’s claim - his biological father, although in an interview he
let is slip that “a psychic” who gave him “a free reading” at a mall
in Boynton Beach, FL, was involved - at least in the beginning.
“How I found out is irrelevant,” Kulpa, who as the colorful
“Captain Cartoon” is a renowned caricature artist in South Florida, and
appears at restaurants, parties and events throughout the region. His cartoon artwork
has been nationally syndicated in newspapers around the world three times.
(See www.captcartoon.com )
“Once the idea was put to me, well, at first, I don’t mind telling
you, I was in shock. But I decided to investigate.
“I now know from a journal , motel receipts and a snapshot that were
kept by my biological mother, who gave me up for adoption when I
was six years old because she couldn’t afford to keep me in baby food and
diapers, was in the right place at the right time in 1954 to have spent the
night with John McCain.”
Kulpa declined to say precisely when “the right time” was and where “the
right place” might have been.
But he has issued a statement through a family spokesman, his son, David
Kulpa, quoting an unnamed ”forensic specialist” as saying
that Kulpa and McCain “share facial features and bone structures that are
genetically ’cast in stone’ and couldn’t be faked even with extensive
cosmetic surgery that Mr. Kulpa obviously hasn’t had.”
The statement went on to say that Kulpa is “reading, willing and able to take a
polygraph test” - but he bristles at the suggestion that his claim might be
“profit oriented.”
“If anybody thinks I have an ulterior motive, sorry - they’re wrong,”
says Kulpa, who met his biological mother at the age of 20 after having spent 14 years in
foster care with a series of 12 families - only the last of which could tolerate, as he
puts it, “My impetuousness and my impulsiveness.
“I am, after all, an artist,” he adds. ”And we can be
needy.”
As derekclontz.com sent this story to press, news agencies were still awaiting a
direct statement from Sen. McCain or his campaign, but as a key advisor told
derekclontz.com, “I wouldn’t hold my breath on that.
“I’m not going to call this guy (Kulpa) a liar, but I’m not willing to
concede that he’s telling the truth, either. He does favor John, but so do a lot of
middle aged men. In the final analysis, that’s what is so embarrassing about this
report - the age of the man claiming to be his child. John is 72. This guy is, what, 54 or
55?
“He’s old enough to be a grandfather himself, and that makes John seem even
older than he is. Let’s face it, if Sen. (Barack) Obama and Gov. Palin
had love children, how old would they be … in their teens? I’m hoping all
of this just goes away,” adds the source. “This campaign is about real
issues that affect people’s lives.
“When all is said and done, the identify of Mr. Kulpa’s father
isn’t all that big of a deal, well, to him, maybe, but not to America and
the world.”
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