[SeekAndFind]

Which is to say, the main driver of McCain's heroism was not the fact of his capture, it's how he comported himself under circumstances more trying than 99.9% of us could imagine, let alone endure.

[Kenny]

Maybe he got beat up, I don’t know and neither do these people. What we do know is that he ignored veterans who were being abused an neglected. He’s supported Obama in every single effort to undermine the American people. And with his Keating 5 history, he totals up to a total scumbag.

So I don’t care what happened to him in Vietnam either way, whether he cooperated with the enemy or acted like a hero, it doesn’t make up for the almost 60 years of abuse by this man. All the years that vets were mistreated while McCain lived it up in rich hotels, vacations, anything he wanted from his money guys.

In fact, even if he was considered a hero then, he’s sure the hell not now.

[trisham]

With all due respect, I don’t agree.

[4Speed]

I can’t get the facts on Hillary’s Benghazi E-mails about those American Heroes..........who died defending American Soil, which is what an Embassy represents in a foreign land.

I’m bored with Trump’s mistake, and waiting for Hillary’s mistake(s) to fact the bright sunshine ....where are the attack JournOlistas on this subject ?

Trump coverage is a shell game by the corrupt media.

[gingerbread]

It looks like Trump has stepped into “QUICK SAND” that he’ll have a problem getting out off. As long as he stuck to the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, he had a lot of people on his side. But you can’t shame a military man like John McCain for his service. He could’ve attacked McCain for his stand on illegal immigrants and people would stand by him. I don’t know how he’ll get out of this one?

[DouglasKC]

I don’t care what McCain did in Vietnam 50 years ago. I care that he has consistently and methodically sold out conservatives for at least the last 20...

[jpsb]

"more trying than 99.9% of us could imagine, let alone endure. "

Really McCain is one of only one out of a thousand that could endure being a POW? So out of random sample of 1,000 men only a John McCain could have survived being a POW.

Decorum prevents me from telling you what I was taught to do should I become a POW.

I am sadden seeing what gets posted here thee days. I blame AOL for ruining the internet.

[Vendome]

#50!

[VerySadAmerican]

Just because someone wrote a book doesn’t mean what he wrote was truth.

McCain acted as Chaplain? Isn’t he an atheist? I know I’ve never heard him utter the word “God”. Maybe I’m wrong.

[cymbeline]

“the main driver of McCain’s heroism was not the fact of his capture, it’s how he comported himself under circumstances more trying”

I believe that. I’d heard this before but you never know what’s the truth, but I do believe McCain comported himself heroically when a prisoner. It’s really hard to know what to believe.

[Terry L Smith]

McCain was a POW, yes.
Why are his POW buddies, standing as close to him, all these years, as one stands next to a skunk?
Why are there recorded interviews by those guys that put the stink on McCain, if he was so great a POW?
Being a POW, you become a pawn, a bargaining chip, for your enemy, to use for their own means, which lacks any Webster definition of ‘hero’.
Beat up some? Yes.
Made to make apologies on film for your actions? Yes.
Act of valor? No.

[ScottinVA]

Amen to that, but you’ll never convince the Trumpettes of that inconvenient little fact.

[kennedy]

“I have tremendous respect for McCain but I don’t buy the war hero thing. Anybody can be captured. I thought the idea was to capture them. As far as I’m concerned he sat out the war.”

Nope. Not Donald Trump. Al Franken.

[KC_Conspirator]

Trump is being an @$$. While there is plenty to criticize McCain for, this is an unnecessary losing situation he has gotten into.

Other than that, I like Trump's plain speak.

[timestax]

ping

[montag813]

Matt Welch has been going on MSNBC for two weeks to bash Donald Trump because he’s an open-borders homo.. Who gives a flying f**k what he thinks?

[R_Kangel]

..... It would appear that The Donald has engaged in a little Shark Jumping on this one.

[TBP]

http://conservativebyte.com/2015/07/fact-checking-the-trump-mccain-fight/

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/

http://www.nationalwriterssyndicate.com/content/view/349/2/hanoi-john-mccain-the-manchurian-candidate/

http://polidics.com/ethics/fellow-pows-say-john-mccain-was-a-coward-and-a-traitor-in-viet-nam.html

http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm

http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2013/06/did-north-viet-nam-collaborator-john-mccain-re-write-history-again.html

http://antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/27/mccain-betrayed-viet-pows/

http://takimag.com/article/judas_mccain_guy_somerset/print#axzz3gOCRtr7x

[rrrod]

well said. This should end the conversation about Trump...let the sleazebag drift off to nowhere.

[miss marmelstein]

OK, I see Palinization in this article.

First: vulgar. That’s always a tip-off. Then the accusation of word salad. Of course, if you watch the video with all the pauses and gesticulations, the words quoted make sense. On paper, perhaps not so much.

But then Newt Gingrich spoke in eloquent sentences and he was accused of being a vulgar creep as well.

So conservatives (or populists) can’t win and perhaps they should just stick to who they really are and forget about Reason Magazine.

[RedHeeler]

Good grief....effin’ Reason is your source op-ed? Well done, seeky findy.