Just when you thought it was safe to reopen your Manhunt.net account, the hook up site is back in the news. When it was revealed last month that the site’s co-founder Jonathan Crutchley made the maximum donation to John McCain’s campaign, the blogosphere  hit code red.

The fallout was crazy. Crutchley was asked to resign from Manhunt’s board, his business partner issued an apology and talked some noise about how Crutchley had  seen the errors of his ways (with nothing from Crutchley of course), and team McCain said it would give the money back.

Well it looks like the McCain campaign really has no issue with gay lubed cash because it has not returned a dime back to Crutchley. Politico.com’s Ben Smith argues this should not be a surprise considering how McCain’s strength has never been the social issues warrior.

True statement, but by picking Sarah Palin as his running mate the Arizona senator was paying homage to those social conservatives in the GOP. They and Palin might draw the line at stumping for a guy who quietly spends money from a site that celebrates gay male sex.

Oh, the Manhunt saga is so juicy. Sex, politics, and money. What’s not to love? Unless you get your news from  CBN, the Manhunt tale has been tearing it up on the gay political sites. Here is the Cliff Notes version: co-founder Jonathan Crutchley gives maximum donation to John McCain’s campaign. People lose their minds. Crutchley is asked to resign from the Manhunt board and co-founder Larry Basile issues a statement apologizing for the whole mess.

Over the week-end, team McCain decided it was time to return Crutchley’s cash (we all saw that coming). Now according to Basile, Crutchley loves him some Obama and plans on giving the Democratic nominee a donation (hey Crutchley: when team Obama sends your check back, give it to me; I’ll proudly cash it).

Okay but here is the problem. Basile is doing all of the talking. Not a word from Crutchley. It is strange for a Republican, as Crutchley proudly described himself, to have a week-end conversion and now be all about the Democrats.

So Mr. Crutchley if you are out there (and we know you are), give us a call here at 365. Let’s sit down for an interview.

Sorry about posting this so late, but the chairman and co-founder of Manhunt.com, Jonathan Crutchley,  has been forced to resign from the site’s board. Seems  Crutchley’s maximum donation to John McCain’s campaign didn’t go down well with the company’s other founder Larry Basile.

“It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley’s donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief,” Basile said in an statement. “I am disappointed that we have lost some customers, and I understand the anger. It is too bad for the web site if we lose customers, but PLEASE never refer to me as a Republican. I consider it an offense.”

Is this enough for people who have been asking for a boycott of Manhunt?