Posted on 08/06/2004 9:24:29 AM PDT by French-American Republican
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
"It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me," McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press, referring to his bitter Republican primary fight with President Bush.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/05/kerry.mccain.ap/index.html
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I can't understand how McCain can say anything about the ad regarding it's accuracy. He wasn't with these guys.
If these guys feel so strongly about this that they are willing to open their lives up to public scrutiny, how can anyone - McCain, O'Reilly, Estrich, the entire slip-and-fall lawyer team that the DNC is dragging out - suggest that they cannot/should not tell their story. These guys were there and this is their version. One thing about vets, they look at things completely differently then Dick Morris' of the world.
I watched O'Reilly say out of one side of his mouth that "they have the right to say what they want" and then out of the other side condemn them for what they are saying.
I agree that his Senate record is so horrible that it's the place to be. But I don't see Republicans latching on this and making it a campaign issue. It just more fringe reporting that will play for a few weeks.
"I can't understand how McCain can say anything about the ad..."
Maybe because McCain is a f**king sell-out like most of those castrated RINO's in the Senate
"Come on, let's leave the Swifties to their comments and move on. We've got a target rich environment in front of us, and we're all concentrating on how deep to dig the latrine."
I second the motion.
... But McCain still deserves to get dumped from his primetime speaking spot at the convention. If he backstabs Bush POST-convention, it'll be really ugly (i.e. make people think that Bush's political allies are deserting him).
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