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DOUBTING MCCAIN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Whoa... what a firestorm.
At the insistence of many TTPers, last week's How the Clintons Will
Destroy John McCain was made a free access article and promptly went viral
over the Internet, becoming explosively controversial.
As you can see from the comments on the Member User Forum
(201, a TTP record), the response from TTPers was overwhelmingly positive. I also received a number of responses from
personal friends. Most were very
supportive, a few were vehemently upset, with most of the latter assuring me
that I remained their friend nonetheless.
I cannot adequately express how much this meant to me.
Then there were those among the latter whose friendship I
have lost. I am most regretful of
losing that of Jim Warner's. Jim had
been a dear friend of many years. I
know of no finer man than Jim Warner, a man of unquestionable character and integrity.
As a captured POW held by the Communist Vietnamese for over
five years, and a cell mate in the Hanoi Hilton of John McCain's for over a
year, Jim felt it necessary to write a rebuttal to my article - without
mentioning either my name or the article - in FrontPage
Magazine.com.
It is easy to understand Jim's desire to defend his cellmate
with whom he suffered indescribable horrors at the hand of the communists. Thus the excruciating irony of Jim's article
- for John McCain possesses a fraction of the integrity and decency of
character of Jim Warner. I would trust
my life to Jim Warner without a moment's hesitation. I would not trust my life to John McCain for a moment.
His candidacy may become a tragic joke being played upon
America. For any joke to resonate,
there has to be a core of truth to it.
Think of the original Jewish American Princess joke about what she makes
best for dinner - reservations. Now
think if that joke were told about Italian women. Instead of a laugh, you'd get a huh?
This is why the allegation that McCain colluded with his
communist captors cannot be dismissed as ridiculous, and could have fooled
decent men like Jim Warner - because he has conducted so much of his life ever
since his captivity with so little integrity.
It's easy to find a Republican Senator who will tell you
that McCain has more than once stabbed him in the back. He is not a man of his word. He cannot be trusted - and isn't among his
senatorial colleagues.
It's far worse than that for a number of those colleagues,
for McCain committed what they consider an act of treason by leaking classified
information to the Washington Post about CIA secret prisons holding Moslem
terrorists.
The WaPo editors who ran the front page headline story, CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons, on November 2,
2005 clearly should have been indicted for treason. There were immediate calls for Senate hearings to investigate the
matter, which were then squashed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
That's because, as reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper The
Hill, the leak was traced to a meeting of Republican Senators with no staffers
present, during which the CIA secret prisons were discussed. The Hill then revealed:
"GOP aides conjectured privately that Frist's delay... may
have been caused by concern over the possibility of endangering a Republican
senator by calling for the investigation."
I soon learned - and told TTPers in To The Big House
Instead of the White House? - that the "endangered senator" was John
McCain.
Further, it's hard to trust a man who is drunk - not with
booze but with his ego. A man ego-drunk
past the 3rd stage of drunkenness, and into the 4th.
Perhaps you have heard the joke about the 4 stages of
drunkenness. The 1st stage
is, "I'm handsome!" The 2nd
stage is, "I'm rich!" The 3rd
stage is, "I'm bullet-proof!" The 4th
and final stage is, "I'm invisible!"
A 72 year-old geezer still thinks he's a dashing fighter
pilot, "Ace" McCain. That was his Navy
nickname, not because he shot down enemy aircraft, but because he was a
"reverse ace," having destroyed five of his own airplanes.
He's rich because he dumped his crippled wife who raised his
kids and waited for him during his years of captivity to have an affair with
then marry a hot young blonde with millions from her millionaire father -
millions that financed his run for office.
He thinks he's bullet-proof because his career is built upon
a pose of being not just a war hero, but more of a war hero than any other war
hero. And he is so ego-drunk that he
thinks all the skeletons in his closet are invisible.
He is despised by legions of Vietnam veterans, and
particularly the families of MIAs, American POWs or Missing-In-Action never
returned by the North Vietnamese Communists.
Take a look at the video
on YouTube about the disgraceful blocking of the 1992 POW/MIA Senate
hearings by McCain, or the voluminous material provided on the Vietnam Veterans
Against John McCain website.
He is especially despised by the Swift Boat Vietnam veterans whose
ads condemning the phony heroics of John Kerry prevented the nightmare of a
Kerry Presidency. When the ads came out
in August of 2004, McCain
publicly denounced the Swift Boat veterans as "dishonest and dishonorable."
Okay, Jack, right, all well and good, but you may be
asking: "What about ‘T'? What about McCain's alleged collaboration
with his Vietnamese captors? How can
that be squared with Jim Warner's moving description of McCain as his
prisonmate?"
First, T is a real person.
If you Googled T's real name, you would get hundreds of hits, and
clicking on "images" would get you T's picture. Just to reconfirm things, yesterday I asked one of the Members of
Congress who has been briefed by T if T was "credible." The answer was: "Oh, very credible.
Everything checks out to the best I have been able to determine."
Last night, I had dinner with another Congressman, just the
two of us. He said of T: "I have known [T] since the 1990s. This is a very impressive, very competent
person who hated the Soviet Union and thus encouraged the CIA-GRU document swap
in 1991. I have always found [T] to be
impeccably honest. Credible? Absolutely."
Then he added: "You
should know that [T] is in semi-seclusion right now. It is extremely dangerous for anyone in Moscow to be associated
with Putin's rivals, which [T] has been, or do anything that might cause public
attention and draw Putin's wrath."
So, for all those folks who have asked that I disclose my
sources for the story of McCain's collaboration - the above three paragraphs is
all the corroboration I'm going to provide.
My only observation about Jim's article is that, as an
inmate in the Hanoi Hilton, he was in no position to know about the GRU
overseeing it, as the Soviets went to great pains to have that be unknown.
I have known about this story, about T, for several years. But there was never any reason to expose it
- until now. And I did so not to make a
claim, but to provide an example.
An example so shocking that it would be a splash of ice cold
water in the faces of those Republicans suffering the delusion that McCain,
once he has the nomination for sure and the GOP is stuck with him, won't be
torn to shreds by the New York Times and the liberal media.
TTP stands for To The Point - not Beside The Point. And that's what all this torrent of op-eds
arguing why conservatives should or will have to support McCain, or analyzing
what conservative running mate would be best (Mark Sanford? Haley Barbour? Or God forbid, Mike Huckabee?), is irrelevant, totally beside the
point.
If the GOP nominates McCain as its candidate in early
September, by late October there will be nothing left of his reputation and his
candidacy - and he is too ego-drunk to realize it.
This will happen whether Hillary or Obama is the Dem
opponent.
If Hillary, she'll unleash the dogs of hell. Those GRU records the CIA supposedly has
will be leaked on the front page of every major newspaper in the country - or
something to put the war-hero image in doubt.
And it will be easy to cause that doubt among voters - because of all
the other dirt accompanying it.
The story of his dumping his crippled wife for a hot rich
blonde will be known by every conscious person in America by late
September. Then the identities of the
women lobbyists with whom he has been cheating on his blonde rich wife will be
known by early October.
In tandem will appear a myriad of stories about how he
betrayed his colleagues in the Senate on vote after vote, promise after
promise. And of course, how he
committed treason by leaking classified info to WaPo.
My mid-October, stories on doubts about his war record will
start. He betrayed his wife and his
party - could he have betrayed his nation and his fellow POWs in Vietnam? Questions like that will pop up all over the
media and the Internet.
Then out comes the GRU archives or similar evidence, and
when McCain denounces them, the New York Times will counter with a demand: "Senator McCain, to put these doubts to rest
about your war record and what actually happened while you were a POW, we ask
that you order the release of your classified Pentagon debriefing records."
Instantly there will be a media feeding frenzy. Every POW was lengthily and deeply debriefed
by the Pentagon after getting out of Communist prison. McCain has rebuffed every demand that his
debriefing be declassified and made public.
"Put the doubt to rest, Senator!
Release your war records!" will be the frenzy's refrain.
All you need is doubt, not proof. Enough doubt, and a politician's candidacy is doomed.
And in the meantime, agents of the left will be stalking
McCain wherever he goes, armed with a deadly weapon of political
assassination: a cell phone with video
capability.
Again, realize, McCain is not emotionally stable. His monumental ego is fragile. Push him, hector him, question him, doubt
his myth, and at some point his volcanic temper is going to explode. And it will be on video, minutes later on
YouTube for everybody in the world to download. McCain will be total toast.
That's if the Dems pick Hillary. If they pick Obama, it will be the same only much worse.
For all of the above will happen with Obama, even if Obama
is a nice guy who won't indulge in such viciousness, because the liberal media
and all the independently funded liberal 527s will anyway and gleefully.
Further, while the specter of real fascist evil infecting a
Hillary White House may be enough to drag Republicans to the polls to vote for
McCain whose shattered candidacy lies in ruins of scandal, the promise and hope
of Obama will simply wipe McCain out.
Remember that the majority of voters do not vote with their
neo-cortex, they vote with their limbic system, not rationally but emotionally.
Obama hasn't an original idea in his head, and what ideas he
does have are the most trite liberal bromides.
But with him it's all about hope and the future. With him, America is still young. With McCain, it's all about the past. Moreover, Obama comes across as a gentleman
- smart, yes, but also friendly, gracious, courteous, a nice guy. McCain by contrast is angry, arrogant, and
"prickly" - which means he's what you are when you take the "ly" off prickly.
Forward vs. backward, future vs. past, young vs. old,
friendly vs. angry.
Put those feelings, that message, together with the liberal
media's destruction of the Myth of McCain, and McCain doesn't have a
chance. Not a chance.
Romney, who has no skeletons and has the proven competence
to handle the economic disaster headed our way, would have a chance. But not McCain. Barring the one single thing that could alter this - an October Surprise
9/11-scale terrorist attack - Republicans will be waking up November 5th
wondering in deep gloom, "What were we thinking?", while the Dems will be
suffering hangovers from too much champagne.
Addendum:
Just as I finished this (Thursday afternoon, February 7), Romney has
dropped out, and McCain gave a great speech at CPAC, which received an
enthusiastic reception and Fox commentator (and former Maryland Lt. Governor)
Michael Steele said was a "home run" that began to "seal the deal" between McCain
and conservatives.
McCain appealed to patriotism, defending America, appointing
justices like Roberts, slashing the corporate income tax, and hit other high
notes. It served notice upon the Dems
that he would clean Hillary's or Obama's clocks on national security
issues.
If McCain had consistently given speeches like this over the
years, and consistently acted in accordance with them, then the "deal" Steele
talked about would have been sealed long ago.
If he keeps giving speeches like this, and he does unify his
party with conservative support while the Dems continue to divide themselves
with a Hillary-Obama duke out, then the September-October schedule I outlined
above will be accelerated.
That is, the liberal media and 527s are not going to wait and
take a chance to shaft McCain in the fall.
There will emerge in the spring a slow drip-by-drip campaign of
scandal-revealing, doubt-mongering, and discreditization. All in broad daylight, right on the front
page of the New York Times.
It will continue all through the summer, replete with cell
phone-captured videos of maniacal temper tantrums on YouTube, until at some
point he psychologically, and his campaign politically comes apart at the
seams. The GOP convention will be held
in utter turmoil, selecting a candidate out of the blue who has far too little
time to mount an effective campaign by November.
Also by the spring, the liberal wolves will decide who the
leader of the pack is and tear the loser apart. Right now, that looks like
Obama and Hillary, respectively. They
will see the need to unite around Obama and leave Hillary's political body in a
ditch. No way are they going to wait
until their August convention. That
will give them time to groom Obama on all the issues and create a surging wave
of passion for him while McCain suffers the death of a thousand scandals and
doubts until he implodes.
That will be the Dems' strategy in the coming months if
conservatives keep cheering for McCain as they did for him at CPAC this
afternoon.
What could McCain do to counter it? Lots of things. Here are three examples:
*Pre-empt the scandals. Order the full declassification of his war records. That would go a long way to showing Jim
Warner is more right than T (which actually I hope is the case). Come clean
on the adulterous affairs. A tough
sell, but confessing the sin is more forgivable than being caught.
*Campaign for conservative candidates in Senate races. Mending fences with his colleagues and
working for Conservative Republican candidates to prevent Dem consolidation of
control of the Senate would help convince folks his new-found conversion to
conservatism is real.
*Select Michael Steele as his running mate. Picking Mike Huckabee, who is on knee-pads
for McCain, would kill any hope of united conservative support. Picking Steele, a true conservative who
understands the morality of capitalism, a former Lt. Governor of an important
state, who is impressively articulate without bombast, and who also happens to
be black, would be an out-of-the-box, out-of-the-park selection that would
rattle the Dems' cages apart. Take
that, Obama!
I don't know what to do about the temper and emotional
instability, though. Maybe take a lot
of 5-hydroxy-tryptophan. Lots.
Sure, I would vote for McCain in November if it comes down
to it. But unless he can effectively
counter the coming massive assault on his massive vulnerabilities, votes for
him will be of no use.
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