The Worst Thing McCain has seen "In a Long Time"...

McCain's campaign is dead in the water. And here is why:



This supposed "straight shooter" thinks the MoveOn.org campaign regarding Petraeus is the worst thing he has seen "in a long time".

He states, "To impugn the integrity and honour of a man who has served his country... is an absolute disgace".

Perhaps he forgets, in his quest for power, the way he - a man who similarly served in the military admirably - was treated by the Bushites during his last attempt to lead the Republicans.

The "pollsters" asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that's not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign.

Some aspects of this smear were hardly so subtle. Bob Jones University professor Richard Hand sent an e-mail to "fellow South Carolinians" stating that McCain had "chosen to sire children without marriage." It didn't take long for mainstream media to carry the charge. CNN interviewed Hand and put him on the spot: "Professor, you say that this man had children out of wedlock. He did not have children out of wedlock." Hand replied, "Wait a minute, that's a universal negative. Can you prove that there aren't any?"

For McCain, of all people, to try to equate MoveOn.org's advert as the worst thing he has seen "in a long time", implies that he is willing to forget the dirty, sleazy and libelous charges that were laid at his own door by the very people who are now manipulating Petraeus.

MoveOn.org said that Petraeus was betraying the US's best interests by lying about the situation on the ground in Iraq. That's hardly a charge of treason as some right wing nutbags have argued.

McCain, as a person who has felt the brunt of the Bush/Rove slander machine, should realise that what was done to him was much worse - and much more personal and despicable - than anything that has ever been laid at Petraeus's door.