Thats the way it looks on the surface, but this:
IMUS: If you don't know that that's the case, that means it's never cleared up then.
MCCAIN: Everything that I've heard -- every bit of information I've ever heard, I never got into it because I wasn't that interested, is that he served honorably and well. And I assume that to be the case.
is probably going to leave more doubt in some people's minds.
McCain was trying, but he doesn't have a real answer anymore than the rest of us. The response four years ago was muddled at best, and it never was a dealbreaker but an argument could be made it was a small part of what made it so close. Rove can come up with extra bucks for the NEA, a dingbat amnesty-on-the-installment-plan for illegal aliens, and can't come up with a reasoned and intelligent explanation of that missing year? I thought he was supposed to be some genius type. When all is said and done, it will not win or the lose the election for the GOP this year either. I'd be surpised if it has "legs".... But the way this was handled then and now makes you wonder who the hell is in charge. What the party DOESN'T need this year is a campaign subjected to "death by a thousand cuts."