which makes John McCain’s continuing antipathy toward the Swiftboaters inexplicable:
Why is McCain sliming veterans who came forward and told the truth about a man who told harmful lies about then before congress then? That is not now and has never been running a clean campaign.
“It was Republican McCain who called Sampley ‘one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter’ and said ‘Sampley has a nose for publicity and knack for making money from invented controversies’
*** I think that this is the key to McCain’s denunciation of The Swiftboaters. He had been dogged by Samplely for years with this type of vacuous crap. Kerry had been Sampley’s second target. Samply had tried to align himself with the Swiftboaters and implied that he had a leadership role there. McCain looked at the Swifties and saw Sampley or similar.
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
110 posted on 02/22/2008 9:31:16 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
“Why is McCain sliming veterans who came forward and told the truth about a man...”
I think that the answer is simple. If there are men who can dispute McCain’s alleged heroics as a POW, he wants to be able to preemptively discredit them.
It just could be that McCain doesn't want a lot of the people who spent time at the Hanoi Hilton talking about his record there. There's a lot of that stuff out there, I just wish some fellow prisoners of war would come forward and speak publically about it.
I personally resist all efforts by the left to equate "Swift Boating" with "Lying".