How the Clinton's Will Destroy McCain

The Right Scale Blog ^ | Saturday, February 02, 2008 | Jack Wheeler

[freespirited]

Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans. There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain.

This is an "organization" of ONE PERSON and therefore should be called Vietnam Veteran Against McCain.

A little on its sole member, Jerry Kiley.

Kiley was stationed for more fourteen months in a U.S. Army communications center during the Vietnam war, according to the group's Web site. He was charged but absolved with assaulting former Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khan in 2005, when he threw a glass of red wine at the official, who was about to give a speech at the Mayflower Hotel after being introduced to the audience by McCain.

The problem with all this Vietnam intrigue is that Wheeler names no sources other than a "bright teenage" translator. Who are the other POWs who claim they rarely saw McCain at the Hanoi Hilton? He has POWs like Orson Swindle and Bud Day who say they were there with him.

I'll be surprised if anything comes of this. I just don't see anyone credible behind it.

[icwhatudo]

Regardless of who you support, make sure to vote in the new FR poll:

"Which GOP presidential hopeful do you want to see win the most delegates on Super Tuesday?"

Member Opinion
Mitt Romney	76.4%		833
Ron Paul	10.7%		117
Mike Huckabee	8.1%		88
John McCain	4.8%		52
	100.0%		1,090

[tips up]

And Hillary never used bad language? Threw lamps? Talk about being unfit to be CINC...

[gruna]

The FR poll shows how much influence conservatives have in the Republican party now. When 76.4% of freepers want Romney to win on Super Tuesday, and only 4.8% want McCain to win, yet McCain is being shoved down the throats of conservatives, it’s time to consider other options.

[BARLF]

If not McCain then who? Romney, Huckabee or Paul?

I hope we don't forget who the real enemy is to this country come election day.

[citizen]

Scary stuff...I don’t know how much of this is true but I do feel it’s all too true that McCain “lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage.” Not a good choice to have their finger on the nuclear button.

[hellbender]

The FR poll shows how much influence conservatives have in the Republican party now.

That's the same conclusion I reached back when FR polls showed that FReepers were mostly for either Thompson or Hunter, both of them now gone without a trace.

[citizen]

Looks like the Ron Paul Brigades have awakened and began voting in lemming fashion. But the FR member percentage is still holding at over 76%.

[don-o]

Hate to be the posting police,

No you don't. Embrace you lust for control and go with it. Stay vigilant to the dreaded duplicates.

[rbg81]

A lot of this is just innuendo and rumor—in fact, just reading it makes me feel slimy. That being said, it would not surprise me too some bad dirt about McCain’s time in Hanoi come out during the GE, be it real or fabricated. I have always thought the master plan was to get McCain nominated because he would be the easiest of the GOP candidates to defame and destroy. At a minimum, McCain has a temper—his MSM buddies will do their best to push his buttons to make that temper flair on national TV. If that happens, he will implode faster than Dan Quayle.

[Doohickey]

Jack needs to figure out how to use an apostrophe correctly if he wants to be taken seriously.

[pepsi_junkie]

I think it’s time we faced reality that Mc Cain is going to be the nominee. We need to quit using all our ammunition on him and start to reload for Obama or Hillary.

Frankly, if the allegations of this article are true than it would be hypocritical of many of us to ever support McCain when we said Kerry was a false hero and unfit for commander in chief. To betray your comrades in such a way would be reprehensible, to later lie and take credit as the bravest and most deprived of all would be even more so.

That said, and disclosing the fact that I can't stand McCain and likely could never vote for him, I am unwilling to believe the word of an anonymous source from Russia that says he saw long lost documents in Vietnamese 30 years ago (i.e. anonymous hearsay evidence). The swiftboat vets were there, they saw what they saw and they gave their first hand accounts. This, on the other hand, is low class smearing. Find a witness and maybe this will find legs.

[Steve Schulin]

Alan Keyes is on the ballot in many states. Florida election results show that thousands of Republicans voted for him to be their party’s nominee. Yet FreeRepublic doesn’t even give him as a choice in this poll you suggest. I’ll be voting for Keyes in my state primary, and I sincerely ask two questions: (1) why doesn’t the FreeRepublic pollster include him as a choice? and (2) Do you, icwhatudo, care to modify your apparent claim that poll is appropriate for Freepers “regardless of who you support”?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

At a minimum, McCain has a temper—his MSM buddies will do their best to push his buttons to make that temper flair on national TV

Actually, that is what Romney should be striving to do now, if he isn't.

[An American In Dairyland]

I think it’s time we faced reality that Mc Cain is going to be the nominee. We need to quit using all our ammunition on him and start to reload for Obama or Hillary.

What for? I think the final outcome will be President Hellery with Obama as her VP. That would explain why the Clintons have only mildly played their political tricks on him to date. He's got to be kept clean enough to be her running mate. McCain is the final piece that sews up a guaranteed victory for her. He's the guy who can't win who has even more skeletons in his closet than conservatives already know about and the Clintons won't shy away from exposing all of them if need be.