[ThePythonicCow]

This looks like a landmind, waiting to blow John McCain up, if and when he gets the Republican nomination.

[dennisw]

btttt

[Kakaze]

This kind of stuff is incredibly hard to prove.

I have a lot of reasons to dislike McCain and a lot of disdain for him.

I have for years thought him unstable, not so much because of the rumors in the senate but just from watching and listening to him.

I made my judgement on his character though years ago as I watched a discovery channel special on the U.S.S. Forrestal.

Whether or not it was McCains fault that the missle went off doesn't matter. What mattered to me was seeing footage of barefoot boys in boxer shorts trying to save the ship. McCain still in a nomex flight suit went to sickbay got checked out and instead of responding to fight for the ship began to shake te hands of the wounded.

A man in a fire retardant suit and flight boots stood shaking hands as the ship burned. He even comments ( as a addendum to the film ) on how important he felt it was to "Thank the boys'

That set my image of him and I can't ever support him, theres no character. This was before the p.o.w. years.

I think you can still buy the video but I've not seen it rebroadcast in years.

[BellStar]

Swift Boat 2! Only it’s a Pubie Vet! Gads!

[Apple Blossom]

I have told so many people that the Clinton’s have tons on info on McCain. He’s left a trail for them for about 25 years now...it’s not like there’s nothing to find.

I know that on the surface he puts up a pretty good front, I had no idea that rage (and in turn “crazy”) was so close to that surface.

That’s not what scares me the most. I’ve said this on FR before, what concerns me is his history with melanoma. Why isn’t that being mentioned? I know personally a man who had it, was treated, thought it was gone, went to the ER one day with vomitting, and was dead in a week. We DON’T need that to happen to our President while he’s in office.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[RVN Airplane Driver]

Thanks for the post. McCains actions in regard to the North Vietnamese have not made any sense and I have suspected that they held the “goods” on him. Among those of us who were involved nothing is as low as someone who aids and abets the enemy...at the expense of your fellow Americans. Sadly I suspect even more now that McCain may have been one of those.

[ZULU]

Exactly. But they would, in the process, be doing conservatives a favor.

McCain is the left of the “Compassionate” Conservative,

[BluH2o]

McCain has always impressed me as someone who is one beer short of a six pack, his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor ... type. He graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis in 1954. In spite of his low ranking on graduation he was sent on for training as a pilot, a highly sought after billet reserved for graduates with a much higher class standing. Typically someone graduating near the bottom of his class at Annapolis doesn’t get a choice. In any event our intrepid aviator went on to lose five aircraft in one fashion or
form during his Navy years. The fact his father and grandfather were both Navy admirals obviously had a positive influence on his Navy career ... albeit certainly undeserved.

[dforest]

I wonder if McCain is the senator that Larry Flynt says he will out.

We heard this a while back, but nothing came out.

[Non-Sequitur]

Why should Clinton have to destroy McCain? The Republicans are doing it for them.

[harpu]

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[sergeantdave]

If hillary released something like this, the blow-back would destroy her. All she’d have as proof is 40 year old documents written by a communist hack. This won’t happen.

McCain needs to be defeated on his merits, or lack of same, by republicans in the primary.

[kjam22]

I’m not going to vote for McCain in the primary, but I’m not sure the Clinton’s can destroy McCain. If the golden mic big mouth, and FR’s favorite dumb blonde can’t destroy McCain.... I’m not sure it can be done.

[bmwcyle]

It won’t take the Clintons. The RNC will kill itself with McCain.

[expatguy]

McCain is perfectly capable of swiftboating himself.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Looks like this article has already revealed what Hillary will reveal. The article saved her the trouble by doing her work.

[purpleraine]

McCain was in the senate in the 90s, so let’s not forget the Clintons have a copy of his FBI file. Probably not Romney’s or Obama’s since they were not on the national radar at the time.

[Walrus]

UM ...horsemanure.

[13Sisters76]

I have heard most of this all before and will not accept it as truth without corroboration, especially all the claims made against him regarding VietNam. I DO accept it as possible since we are dealing with a man who was, at the time, a rich little post-teenage spoiled brat along the lines of a Teddy Kennedy. Even if it is true that he is a “hero” from the past, he is NO hero NOW.

Is he nutz? I believe THAT. Is the CIA a leftist infested swamp? I believe that as well. It is nothing more than just another fed agency that has been eaten by the activists over the past 30 years. Do the Clintons have something on McCain? Possibly. Will they use it? Most definately.

What we have, with a McCain nomination and either of the other two demonRAT candidates, is the possibility that the AMerican people, more than usually, are the BIGGEST LOSERS.

My biggest complaint over the past several election seasons has been that the people have forgotten what it means to be a self-governing nation. We have gone about our business, working and taking care of our responsibilities all the while forgetting that our biggest responsibility is in running our country. The Constitution makes it plain that WE are the biggest losers if we abrogate this charge. This campaign season is the result of all those claims- “Im too busy”, “I hate politics”,blah blah blah...Every time I see those talk shows where the “man-on-the-street” cannot identify even the president, vice president or any of the leading demonRATs that are busy his freedoms, my heart breaks. It isn’t funny.

It’s too late now. The election is around the corner and we are stuck with what we have. We conservatives are hearing how “irrelevant” we are, how the “moderates” are the NEW Republican Party. Even the enemy on the left re-writes history to claim the last good man we had- Reagan- and no one speaks up.

What do we do now?

We have 4 years. I intend to get as deeply involved in my state party as I can. I intend to kick ass and take names. I want to KNOW who the best conservatives are and I will push for them. I’m going to take a few minutes every week and cruise the internet and find out which candidates, what state, and what they stand for and see what their plans are. I’m going to continue to watch the news and when a foreign policy issue comes up, I WILL take a few minutes and find out WHAT this will mean for us all. If just a minority of us did this, the rest COULD be better informed.

Aren’t we sick of the media choosing our candidates for us? Is there a single person who actually believes these people, these hacks for the left, mean us anything but defeat and harm? Can’t we take a little time to assure that this country exists for our kids and grandkids?

Please don’t be a “moderate” which means nothing more than that you don’t know the issues or are unsure of what you believe. Take a stand you can believe in and take the little time it takes to fight for it. Our soldiers are doing that very thing. The least we can do is make them as proud of US as we are of THEM.

[chainsaw]

It will not be the Clinton’s that destroy McCain it will be the Media.

Think back eight years. the media was was pushing “W” as hard as they could. I sat back and said to myself “who anointed Bush to be the republican candidate for president?” What the media didn’t realize was that Bush would win the presidency, and they have been is enemy ever since. Of course the Clinton’s helped that along.