Don’t hold your breath waiting for the fringe on FR to apologize for using the same slur. Several months ago I posted an article by former Gore advisor Naomi Wolfe also using the traitor meme. Most readers of the thread were outraged, but before and since I’ve seen it turn up in threads.
I’m sure the left wingnuts aren’t done with it. I’m equally sure the right wingnuts aren’t done with it. To the shame and discredit of both.
The best way to refute the claims of the wingnuts on both sides would be for McCain to unlock the records of POW/MIA debriefings, and other related records, which he consigned to an eternal lockbox as a Congressman shortly after being elected.
This might even inspire Kerry to release his 180, then all the speculation could be over and we’d know the wingnuts.