I wonder if Mc Cain’s real issue here is watching his much vaunted campaign reform effort go down in flames.

He has somehow set himself up as the arbiter of good taste in campaigns so his approbation is somehow supposed to stop people from saying what they wish.

It’s just the process Senator Mc Cain. this campaign’s ugliness is nothing new. Kerry’s had ample opportunity to have his “sister soulja” moment and he hasn’t done it.

As you sew, so shall you reap.

Posted by: skip at August 5, 2004 05:24 PM

Senator McCain’s view of the information released by the Swift Vets is baffling. I don’t understand what is dishonest or dishonorable about the well documented and verifiable testimony of these veterans.

From what I understand, the Kerry campaign and the DNC are now trying to stifle their speech by threatening TV stations with possible legal action should they run this ad. I am more disturbed by the democrat reaction to the veterans speaking about Kerry’s record. IMO this action lends credence to the concerns voiced by the veterans.

Posted by: Jim at August 5, 2004 06:07 PM

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/swift.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/service.asp

Posted by: Lakhim at August 5, 2004 06:40 PM

The DNC and George Soros’ group have already done their damnedest to stop Move America Forward (www.moveamericaforward.com), and MAF’s co-founder Melanie Morgan warned the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth this morning that the DNC would be pulling something like this very soon.

It must hurt to be so right.

Posted by: gus3 at August 5, 2004 06:55 PM

Bush released a statement distancing himself from the ad. He knows that it can only backfire.

Posted by: rdelephant at August 5, 2004 08:06 PM

Bush released a statement distancing himself from the ad…

Just the same way Kerry released a statement distancing himself from the Moore movie… no wait, he didn’t, now did he?

And where was McCain on that? Silent. I guess he is a lot more bothered by personal statements made by men willing to put their reputations at stake than he is by manipulative filmmaking.

I don’t understand how he can call the ad dishonest. He’s calling these guys liars? Is that what he wants to do?

I used to really like McCain, but this had made me lose all respect for him.

Posted by: Bostonian at August 5, 2004 09:44 PM

John McCain has Presidential aspirations for the future. There are still some deeply held suspicions that McCain and Kerry CONSPIRED TOGETHER to hide information about P.O.W.’s still in Vietnam years after McCain was rescued.

If it is ever proven, both of them would have to leave the U.S.A. to stay alive! I doubt it will ever be proven.

I really have NO IDEA if any of the stories are true, but a lot of us have heard them in different posts throughout the land. It makes a lot of us say… Hell, No to both of them.

Posted by: leaddog2 at August 5, 2004 09:54 PM

So now, you’ve got Zell Miller describing speakers at the DNC as muzzled. In lockstep on the issues. Now, you’ve got the DNC actively trying to limit free speech? When what these guys say is provable and true?

Which party is closer for Fascism???!!!

Chads

Posted by: Chads at August 6, 2004 09:09 AM

I find it rather audacious for McCain to complain about this, seeing as how this is his fault. This is the result of his idea of “campaign finance reform”.

I find it unfortunate that politics has come to this. Ordinarily I would dismiss this, because I don’t think this issue is relevant to today’s campaign, but the simple fact is, John Kerry has gone out of his way to make his service in Vietnam an issue of this campaign, and the DNC has gone out of its way to make Bush’s service, or lack thereof, an issue of this campaign. I mean, come on “My name is John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty?!?” Puke. John made his bed, now he has to lie in it. Heheh. So to speak.

///Bush released a statement distancing himself from the ad. He knows that it can only backfire///

LOL. Right. This is likely to backfire. Sure it is. Which is why Kerry is sending out letters threatening TV stations with lawsuits. Which is why the normally calm and smug “Don” sounded like a desperate cat on a hot tin roof at this site yesterday. Which is why the DNC is doing whatever they can to associate this with “dirty tricks” and Republican funding, or which it is neither. I doubt that this will backfire at all, unless as I said, its overplayed. The trouble with credible witnesses is that they are…..well…..credible.

Posted by: johnnymozart at August 6, 2004 10:30 AM

What troubles me, though, are all the calls for the White House to demand they pull the ad. Since when has it ever been appropriate for the Executive branch of the government to demand people not not express their opinions? When you come down to it, it’s a big “he said/she said”, certainly nothing I want my government to take action against. Talk about real chill on free speech!

Posted by: submandave at August 6, 2004 04:12 PM

John Mcain for Secretary of State

in a John Kerry administration.

Posted by: bluedragon at October 2, 2004 03:23 PM