Yes, it angers me. McCain isn’t perfect but I don’t see why some try to tarnish a record like that. Kerry is documented and he knows it… but McCain at least vouches for the jerk… which still doesn’t make Kerry right.

But I am in solice right now. Very sad… I donated for Merlin’s Miracles and this fine young man passed on :(

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Merlin German, 22 of Manhattan, N.Y., died April 11 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from wounds he suffered while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq, on Feb. 22, 2005. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif., while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. German’s parent unit was the 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. He was medically retired Sept. 28, 2007, as a result of his injuries. Media with questions about this Marine can contact the Headquarters Marine Corps public affairs

Nor do I remember other POW’s saying that about McCain.
upinak on May 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM

It has been said, quietly, for decades.

I used to believe it, but I no longer do. There were people, trustworthy people, who were in contact with him, if only by ‘tap code’ nearly all that time. Only a month or two unaccounted for.

Probably a stupid idea to try to use THAT against him. There is more than enough well documented stuff in the past 8 years….. Heck, the last 8 weeks…. that should have made him the last person that Republicans would want to run for President.

Red Pill on May 2, 2008 at 11:15 AM

So do you remember WHEN it happened? As I do not remember the date. Nor do I remember other POW’s saying that about McCain.

The thing that I fear is that they are going to hate the Republicans even more when McCain destroys the economy with his idiotic GoreBull Warming policies, His open borders policies….

And his newest idiocy: “League of Democracies” that will not replace the UN but supplement the UN in telling Americans what they can and can not do, not only in the world at large, but within our own borders.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OR8DTG0&show_article=1&cat=0
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009946/posts?page=30

LegendHasIt on May 1, 2008 at 9:50 PM

Wow! This is George Soros stuff! People need to wake up to the fact that John McCain is in bed with the Democratic Socialists. Soros has been funding McCain since 2001.

McCain-Feingold: limiting your first amendment rights
McCain-Kennedy: preparing the way for a Communist revolution by turning millions of low-paid workers into voters.
Gang of Fourteen: obstructing conservative judicial nominations
Keating Five: Scandalous past (“Culture of Corruption”)

…and now…

“We Americans must be willing to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies,” McCain says

…

McCain also urges a similar “massive overhaul of the nation’s foreign policy, defense and intelligence agencies” to meet the world’s current challenges. He says details will come later.

This man is seeking to weaken, not strengthen, our nation. He is every bit as dangerous as Barack Obama. Do not be deceived.

Yes, the average voter is somewhere between Mod and Con, yet somehow the Obammunist or Hilpatine could be our next President. When voters realize where they stand on the issues, the Pubs win.

Tony737 on May 1, 2008 at 6:53 PM

Not enough people understand the truth of this.

George W. Bush won a greater percentage of the popular vote in 2004 than any Democrat has received since LBJ in 1964. And if you discount that election (because the country wanted stability in the wake of the JFK assasination), you have to go all the way back to FDR to find a Democrat who got a greater percentage of the popular vote than George W. Bush won in 2004.

Liberal Socialist Demoncrats are not in the majority, as much as they like to think they are!

Ed, do you NOT remember when Forbes looked at McCain at a Republican debate for President, and says “I do not believe you were a POW!” and you see McCain turn bright red and then dig into Forbes. I about died laughing.

Am I the ONLY one who remembers this?

upinak on May 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM

I do not remember that, but I do know that several Vietnam veterans who are active in the POW-MIA effort believe that:

1) The two years that John McCain was supposedly in “solitary confinement” he was actually not in Vietnam at all and was being treated very well by the Russians.

2) John McCain and John Kerry worked against, not for, the goals of the POW-MIA families.

I saw Steve Forbes speak live in SC during the 2000 race, and he was excellent.

Rudy for A.G.! (someone said it before, just thought I’d second it)

There isn’t enough charisma on the planet to give those two enough to prevent them from putting the entire country to sleep. Heck, all the people inclined to vote for the ticket will be soundly asleep and miss the whole voting thing….

TheBigOldDog on May 1, 2008 at 8:40 PM

McCain manages to energize some folks, but Forbes will suck the charisma right out of the room. You’re right; the couple would be a yawner.

Mitt Romney is the right choice: young enough, conservative enough, smart and tough enough, charismatic enough, economically savvy enough—and, mark my words, he might just be able to deliver a big swing state to McCain: Michigan!

She WOULD be a McCain insider.

After destroying HP, Make her VP, so she can help ruin America too.

I just love the way that McCainiacs seize upon any bit of inaccurate nonsense to support their choice, and then call everyone else names.

So classy…

Just as classy as McCain himself is.

The “average American” is pretty conservative, they just wan’t to think that they are liberal. The problem is that the “average American” really hates Republicans right now.
29Victor on May 1, 2008 at 9:28 PM

I agree with that to a certain extent.

The thing that I fear is that they are going to hate the Republicans even more when McCain destroys the economy with his idiotic GoreBull Warming policies, His open borders policies….

And his newest idiocy: “League of Democracies” that will not replace the UN but supplement the UN in telling Americans what they can and can not do, not only in the world at large, but within our own borders.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OR8DTG0&show_article=1&cat=0
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009946/posts?page=30

If not Romney, though, why not Forbes himself? Forbes was interested enough in the top job eight years ago to make a stab at it, and he certainly brings a brilliant conservative mind on economic issues.

Forbes? Oh my God!

MB4 on May 1, 2008 at 9:11 PM

Hello loser troll. How are things in your sad world?

austinnelly on May 1, 2008 at 8:37 PM

OHHH! I get it! It was all an XK RED 47 Technique (Fish called Wanda)…a double bluff!

XK RED 47 got Clinton 8 years in office. But he couldn’t have done it without the help of folks like you who refused to vote for Bush the First or Dole because they were “too liberal.” Never got to thank you for that. For liberal Supreme Court justices, a weaker national defense and the unchecked rise of radical Islam.

Thanks.

I don’t get it. So what is further to the left than, say, Reagan?
Immigration? No.
Spending? No.
Abortion? No.
Taxes? No.
National defense? No.
Gun control? No.

Maybe the environment. Other than that, he’s to the right of Bush on many things. So why wouldn’t he pull the party to the right?

The “average American” is pretty conservative, they just wan’t to think that they are liberal. The problem is that the “average American” really hates Republicans right now.

Yep, yer right. I meant people like you. Willing to flush the country down the toilet because you disagree with they guy on a couple of points.

No wonder the country hates Republicans. No wonder McCain doesn’t care if you are on his side or not. Neither do I.

Don’t forget, the chances of a McCain presidency lasting less than 8 years is quite high.

If not Romney, though, why not Forbes himself? Forbes was interested enough in the top job eight years ago to make a stab at it, and he certainly brings a brilliant conservative mind on economic issues.

Forbes? Oh my God!

this huge FLDS mess that, however unrelated it may be, gets related.

maverick muse on May 1, 2008 at 7:19 PM

Don’t forget that the FLDS stuff was all started with a fraudulent phone call made by Rozita Swinton. Rozita is an Obama supporter from Colorado Springs and a delegate to the Colorado state Democratic convention.

Cornering the Dems on both national security and the economy would leave them with nowhere to hide.

TheBigOldDog on May 1, 2008 at 8:40 PM

I was trying to find the words to express my consternation at that suggestion, but you framed it for me so I’ll just say ditto.