Captain's Quarters -

McCain would make a lousy president but he doesn't deserve this. Kerry is just applying a little payback because McCain rejected him. Kerry is always looking for this kind of opportunity. Look what he did recently when that nomination for ambassador to somewhere came up. The guy had given some money to the Swift Boat Vets. Kerry showed up and starting quizing him about it. And the nomination was withdrawn.
What a lowlife. He is a despicable character. He would last about half a day as president taking the kind of heat Bush takes every moment. He would be so busy taking care of all the people who have mistreated him he would never get anything done. He's the only democrat even the democrats want to just go away.

Somebody in the Democratic Consultancy Swamp thinks that John McCain is the Republican Party's strongest link to the political center, and that eliminating him from viability will severe that connection and leave that part of the spectrum to the Democrats. They grossly miscalculate and reveal themselves - as they always do!

"...perhaps intended to boost the fortunes of two has-beens like John Kerry and Tom Daschle."
Or a third North Eastern candidate - Rudy, who was double digits behind Hill when he droped out late in the race in 2000. I am sure the Dems would love to see a Rudy - Billary race.

That's a silly argument Rod. That was pre 9/11, and that is NYC, a state that I am not sure is even in play with Rudy. What Rudy would bring is some of the less militant NE states.

Kerry: "...and then Sen. McCain and I sneaked across the Mexican border, on a secret military mission, and John gave me this sombrero...."

Kerry: "...and then Sen. McCain and I sneaked across the Mexican border, on a secret military mission, and John gave me this sombrero...."

"...and I still have the hat........"

Yet another fantasy brought to you by John Kerry.

Jeez, if it was any other source, at least you'd have to think about it for about five seconds before you started to laugh. With Kerry as the source, no hesitation is necessary. It's absurd on the face of it.

I just cannot believe anyone takes anyhing John Kerry says seriously.

I have no idea who's zooming who here but I do know this. I don't care. The 2004 election is over (duh!). And John McCain, as I remember it, campaigned diligently for the Bush/Cheney ticket.

When the North Vietnamese offered to release John McCain from his Hanoi prison cell he declined because it would be a violation of the code (leaving before other officers who had been captured before him). He refused to dishonor himself or provide the enemy with this easy propaganda victory (his father being the head of the Pacific fleet as I remember it). I find it hard to believe that such a man considered switching parties so he could be John Kerry's wingman on the 2004 Democratic ticket.

I think John McCain is wrong about some things but he is not a fool.

And so the "Swift-Boating" of John McCain begins...

Why should the DIMS want to smear McCain - who has done more for their cause???

They may be hoping their attack on him now, as he is ALREADY sliding down the polls, will cause a BACKLASH of GOP support for him, thinking if they have to lose to SOME GOP member, they'd rather have McCain than anyone else!

THAT makes more sense than taking McCain's word over the word of HIS RUNNING COMPADRES.

Remember, this is the same McCain who once said HANOI JOHN would make an excellent President!

As far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter which of them is telling the truth or lying - none of them come out smelling like anything more than the dirty rotten conniving skunks they have always been.

McCain included!

Just look at the "accusers" for a minute: Daschle, Downey, Edwards, Kerry. Not an honest man among them.

However the statement "Kerry knew that McCain was still bitter over the dirty tricks played on him during the 2000 campaign by Bush mudslingers, who spread rumors that McCain had fathered a black child by a prostitute." is utterly false. ONE upstate fundamentalist preacher, his wife, daughter, and son-in-law made under 200 calls in their own "push poll." They had NO connection to the Bush campaign or the Republican Party in SC, and Bush immediately condemned the calls.

The whole brouhaha helped McCain a lot more than the few actual calls could have hurt him, but it was his own bald-faced lying in claiming his campaign was not engaging in negative attacks which cost him the SC primary after Bush produced a McCain campaign hit piece in the televised debate in response to the Senator's categorical denial.

This is a myth which just won't die.

I am not a McCain supporter, but something just doesn't sit right about this story. Unless my memory is faulty, I never saw a time when McCain even seemed in the slightest way interested in running with John Kerry as a Dem. I mean if her were the one pursuing a run with Kerry, and Kerry was himself eager, then why would it not have been a done deal? Ceartainly Kerry did seem to be pursuing McCain.
I tend to think that this is indeed a Dem smear. I always knew that the Left's love affair with McCain would end with any real threat to a Democrat, but this seems pretty premature. Perhaps they feel that they will weaken anyone they can, to thin the pack. However, a weakened McCain could slide to number 3, replaced by Mitt Romney. And Romney is one of the Dem's worst nightmares, along with New Gingrich and Fred Thompson.

I wouldn't believe John Kerry if he told me he married his wife for her money.

Oh wait, I would believe that.

What is it with the Democrat Party that they seemingly have no one in it that is the least bit normal? The last two individuals they nominated for President are the kind of people who (if they weren't trust fund heirs) wander around with glassy eyes, carrying signs in Lafayette Park and shouting at strangers.

The only one of their Presidential candidates who seems the least bit normal, is Bill Richardson and he doesn't have a chance at getting the nomination.

this is the first in a long line to follow as the dem slime machine oozes out completely bogus tales about everything republican. think dan rather on steroids. and yes, a large percentage of folks will lean towards believing them. the goebbels myth lives on--tell a big lie often enough and people will believe it.

If Kerry told me that the sky was blue, I would still look up. Probably McCain has thought about switching or running as an independent -- no reason not to look at all your options. Still, I do not believe this story. And I would find it very hard to support John "No Free Speech" McCain.

I think the Dems feel he would be the most credible pro-war candidate, and want to sink him from the start.

I think the truth is probably somewhere in the middle ... from both John's, McCain and Kerry. There are two john's that definitely need to be flushed often and regularly,

I do find it funny that we call Kerry dishonest and don't believe him when week in and week out it is McCain who is losing his credibility and slipping further and further behind the liberal Rudy G.

JFKerry is just upset that Al Gore has upstaged him in the I-can't-believe-that-guy-was-this-close-to- being-President Sweepstakes.