[OldFriend]

We have only McCain's word for the so-called slurs. As for the matter of drug addiction........are you suggesting that stealing drugs from the charity at which Cindy McCain volunteered and entering drug treatment means the story was false?

In my opinion is was Rush Limbaugh that knocked McC out of the primaries along with his vicious gratuitous attacks on the Christian right.

Is the author to which you are referring, Paul Alexander? The same man who constantly ran with the rumor that McCain was going to switch parties and run again for President as a democrat?

[Egregious Philbin]

We have only McCain's word for the so-called slurs. As for the matter of drug addiction........are you suggesting that stealing drugs from the charity at which Cindy McCain volunteered and entering drug treatment means the story was false?

Not just McCain's word, many articles on the South Carolina primary. It seems that the slurs came from outside the Bush campaign, but the negatives were drummed up at Rove's prompting. Is the second sentence an admission? It's ok to smear Cindy McCain, but it's uncouth to talk about Bush's drunk driving arrest?