Bud Boy

The sale of Anheuser Busch could spill over into the presidential election. Cindy McCain owns one of the largest Anheuser Busch Distributors in the nation.

Mrs McCain is secretive about her stake but experts estimate it to be worth at least $100m and her 2006 tax return - reluctantly made public last month - showed income of $6.1m. She declined to comment.

The Hensley fortune is in her name alone but Mr McCain benefits from the lavish lifestyle it supports, including homes in Arizona, Virginia and California and a private company jet.

There is a loop hole in McCain Feingold that allows him to use his wifes company's jet. The sugar mama express.

The couple married in 1980 shortly after Mr McCain divorced his first wife and settled in Phoenix. After leaving the navy he served briefly as vice-president of public relations for Hensley, helping him build the connections he needed to launch a career in politics. When a congressional seat fell vacant near Phoenix in 1982, Mrs McCain bought a house in the district to qualify him as a candidate and lent tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign. He won and has been in Congress ever since.

She bought him a house and a seat in congress. Sweet. Has he ever done anything on his own? His Daddy and Granddaddy were four star admirals. His class ranking at the Naval Academy has been scrubbed from wikipedia. It was if IIRC 894 out of 899. Yet, he got to fly jets. Crashing five in his career.