Rumor Control reports at a level of 5 (out of 10) that "The Bush administration is considering canceling John McCain's address to the Republic Convention in New York because "he is boiling mad" about the administration's tardiness in condemning advertisements questioning John Kerry's war service."
So maybe I'm not the only one to have that Swift Boat fantasy... or nightmare, from their perspective?
My prediction: McCain make the surprise announcement that he really was brainwashed by the North Vietnamese, and that his adopted daughter from Bangladesh really is his illegitimate child from a black prostitute, and he will apologise to George W. Bush and ask Kerry to come clean about faking his medals.
Posted by: Kuas | August 24, 2004 at 05:42 PM
McCain has good reason to be boiling mad. I did a little digging into his history with Bush (here: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001350.html#1350) and while I knew some of it, the extent of the abuse Bush heaped on him 4 years ago, using the same tactics, was amazing.
McCain is enough of a professional and a careerist that I would expect him to stay on script at the convention. If they pull him, I will suspect it is because he is a more sympathetic and popular figure than Bush, and they want to keep McCain away from national spotlight so the Neocons can handpick their next Manchurian Candidate in 2008.
Posted by: Shaula Evans | August 26, 2004 at 02:24 AM