McCain Losing It?: Calls Americans 'My Fellow Prisoners'

Wow, not sure what to think about this. Wonder if it's related to the meds he's taking. Via Jed of course.

If McCain were a Democrat ...

I've read this guys stuff before, and it usually cuts right thru the bs. The category for this op ed is "Campaign Outsider", and by reading it you can see why. I have never seen this discussed before in the traditional media. Read the whole thing, but here's some pertinent graphs-

...When it comes to smears, as Don Vito Corleone said, "It's not personal, it's business." If John McCain was the Democratic nominee, rather than the Republican candidate, the right would bury him, too. They wouldn't bother with his flip-flops on President George W Bush's tax cuts or the minor differences that have cooled evangelicals and other far rightists on McCain, they'd go for big targets at the heart of McCain's image and message.

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But McCain also broke under torture. His captors refractured his bones, bound him in what are now known as "stress positions" by Bush administration overseers of torture, and beat him. After a failed suicide attempt, McCain signed and taped a confession of his war crimes. That would be enough for rightists to pounce on his war record far more effectively than General Wesley Clark did.

"When he faced the biggest challenge of his life, John McCain failed himself and his country," the commercial would say. "A navy flier, John McCain made one mistake: getting shot down. He made a bigger mistake when he gave his captors more than his name, rank and serial number. McCain cracked. He confessed to war crimes, slandering US fighting forces and our nation in a propaganda film made to order for the North Vietnamese communists."

Then they'd trot out a Vietnam-era veteran (or a guy who looks the part) to say, "I was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, but I didn't betray my country and my comrades in arms the way John McCain did. America's enemies may want a traitor and a coward as our next president but I sure don't. So I won't vote for John McCain."

You know they would.