McCain Targeted?

Apparently, the time has come, by the lights of Saint Andrew the Incontinent, to swift boat John McCain.  Now, you will recall, I’m no major fan of John McCain. At the same time, this stuff, as pointed up by Tom Maguire at Just One Minute is well beyond the pale…. and interestingly enough, Saint Andrew would have agreed with me before his revelation on the road to Sodom, as you’ll se in this clip:

Excitable Andy has decided to Swift Boat John McCain:

I’ve now heard it countless times. McCain has used what appears to be an intensely personal moment in a prison camp as a reason to vote for him in a campaign ad. As he tells it today, it was the pivotal moment in his struggle to survive in the Hanoi Hilton. And yet, in his first thorough account of his time in captivity, in 1973, the story is absent. The story is also hauntingly like that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, “The Sign of the Cross”:

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I have one simple question: when was the first time that McCain told this story?

Uh huh.  Because the sign of the cross is a pretty well-kept secret, so how could prison guards invoke it twice in one century?  FWIW, the story appears in McCain’s 1999 “Faith Of My Fathers”, although I have no idea whether McCain told it earlier.  Lexis mavens?

The Kossacks are on this search for the truth, so we know it will be kept classy.  And speaking of classy, let’s crack open the Time Vault and go all the way back to June 30 for a different perspective from a then Non-Excitable Andy:

This kind of personal attack was repulsive coming against Kerry from the far right. And it’s repulsive the other way round. Both Kerry and McCain served their country honorably; and their records should be revered, period. You can make an argument against McCain’s foreign policy experience and judgment on its merits. Do it and leave this crap out of it.

Well, that was almost two months ago.  Evidently the bell has rung and now its time to bring the crap.

McCain, after being rescued from "The Plantation"

Tom then goes to dismantle the story… does a fair job of it, too. Go and read.

But, one question: Where was Saint Andrew the Incontinent when the ‘Magic Hat” story was being offered? I wonder if the left is prepared for the backlash that’s coming on this stuff?

By the way… I’m not sure I buy the ‘Swiftboat’ tag in this.  See, the Swiftboat folks had some truth going for them. St Andrew lacks that advantage.