Senator McCain: HELP ME HELP YOU!

(6 pm – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Senator McCain: I am PREPARED TO DEFEND the use of your military record as PROOF of your QUALIFICATION TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT –

I lack only the tools.

Help ME to help YOU.  

Senator McCain, it is INCONCIEVABLE to me that mouthpieces for the EXTREME LEFT in this country have called into question the idea that your military service is anything less than the ABSOLUTE BEST PREPARATION POSSIBLE for your future role as President of the United States. That these UNPATRIOTIC TRAITORS have the TEMARITY to challenge the notion that your UNEQUALED, UNPRECEDENTED AND ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE service to your country in the air over Vietnam and during your subsequent unprecedented years as a prisoner establish your CLEAR SUPERIORITY as a presidential candidate is an AFFRONT to the political process in this country and an AFFRONT to veterans everywhere (even though, as we know, no other veterans share your unique military experience).

And – not surprisingly – these attacks by your critics are UTTERLY WITHOUT FOUNDATION. It is sadly typical of the left wing to attack WITHOUT EVIDENCE. How can one claim that a candidate’s military record does not automatically make him qualified for high office when one HAS NEVER SEEN THAT RECORD? Such intellectual DISHONESTY might be held in high esteem in some circles, but not in these circles, sir, not in these circles. This is SCOURALOUS – to besmirch the value of your war record without even being able to point to that record, WITHOUT EVNE HAVING THAT RECORD.

And, oh, but those on the left who would see you defeated in November are clever – they do not fail to praise your “war record” (all the while without actually – like your defenders – EVER HAVING SEEN IT) to any who will listen, but they somehow FALL MUTE when it comes to proclaiming that that very record PROVES YOUR UNMATCHED ABILITY to govern this great nation.

Such viralent skepticism on the part of the TRIATOROUS LEFT in this country is not surprising – but, sir, neither are the many expressions of OUTRAGE by my fellow PATRIOTS here on the right – I share their frustration, sir, for as much as all of us want so fervently to defend our champion, our hands are tied. You see, sir, not only are those on the left – who want to declare that “absence of evidence is evidence of absence” – making their claims WITHOUT THE ESSENTIAL MATERIAL to back it up, so, too, are we on the right, if the truth be told. We are loudly proclaiming that your military record provides PROOF POSITIVE that you, sir, are UNIQUELY QUALFIED to serve as chief executive of this great nation – but without your military service records, we are at best only guessing.

Sir, with all due respect, you do yourself – and, dare I say it, by extention, this country – a great disservice by not unleashing upon the UGLY DOUBTERS of the world your FULL MILITARY SERVICE RECORD. Not even your staunchest defenders have that record, sir! Not even those who would give the LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION to defending your RIGHT to the White House by virtue of your having been SHOT DOWN AND EMPRISONED don’t have that record. PLEASE HELP US HERE! Please come to our aid, o GREAT REPUBLICAN TRUTH MACHINE!

Senator, I am sure that somewhere within the 636 pages of your complete military service record are the words that will assure the American people that YOU ALONE among all of the thousands of U.S. pilots shot down during the Vietnam War, that YOU ALONE, among the hundreds of Americans held captive and tortured by the North Vietnamese, that YOU ALONE, among those whose fathers and grandfathers were admirals – that you, sir – ALONE among all of that great assemblage of men and women who served and suffered in the name of this nation – YOU ALONE posess the unique qualifications that make you the ONE person BEST SUITED to assume the position of president of the United States of America.

And while I can understand your reluctance to unleash such an AWESOME weapon of mass clarification upon a skeptical public, sir, I believe that the time has come to FOREGO such compassion, such temperance, such consideration of the welfare of others, and to think for once only of YOURSELF, Senator – for in thinking of yourself, Senator, you will – through that magickal allchemy posessed by Republicans alone among all people – in fact be working for the benefit of ALL Americans. Of this I am certain.

But until we can weild those pages, sir, until we can UNDSHEATH the Sword of Truth that is undoubtedly bound up in those vindicating documents, our hands are tied. We are playing, sir, at a disadvantage, and this game – as well you know, sir, as well you know – is one in which the ENEMY will MERCYLESSLY exploit every advantage he is given. No quarter will be asked, sir, nor any given.

So please, Senator McCain, do not handicap us any longer. Do not unduely restrain for another crucial moment those of us who desire so passionately to defend you. We beg of you: GIVE US THE TOOLS WE NEED to DESTROY these HALF-TRUTHES, these scuralous attacks on the value of your record. GIVE  US THOSE RECORDS, SIR, so that we may weild them in the battle for the SOUL of this great nation.

I eagerly await your response, Senator. I know that you will do THE RIGHT THING.

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