McCain's Presidential Ambitions Set To Be Swiftboated

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    McCain's Presidential Ambitions Set To Be Swiftboated
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member set to launch counter-offensive to reclaim Republican Party
Paul Joseph Watson

Friday, February 8th, 2008
     


Remnants of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group that contributed to torpedoing John Kerry's presidential ambitions in 2004 are set to derail John McCain's hopes of becoming the Republican nominee by forcing the GOP to jettison the Senator and instigating a revolution within the party to return it to its conservative roots.

It was McCain himself that leapt to Kerry's defense during the Swift Boat controversy four years ago and now the individuals that started the offensive against Kerry are set to turn on McCain.

The campaign is being led by Sergeant Ted Sampley who has devoted much of his post-military career to campaigning for the safe return of lost POW's stranded behind enemy lines. He is Vice President of Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally Washington, D.C., which has no less than half a million active members.

Sampley also runs Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain organization, which has been instrumental in exposing the fact that McCain's status as a war hero and the claim that he was tortured in Vietnam is a complete fabrication, as well as highlighting the fact that McCain poses as a veteran's advocate yet abandons them on every turnkey issue.

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"We are planning right now a counter-offensive called GOP Tea Party, and in the spirit of 1773 when the colonists rebelled against the King of England and tossed all that tea over, we're going to rebel against the Republican Party and toss McCain over," Sampley told the Alex Jones Show.

"We hope to start a revolution within the Republican Party to cleanse it of all the left-leaning Republicans and McCain is a leftist if you look at his major activity," he added, pointing out that McCain has direct links to the Clintons and would be no different than having Hillary in the White House.

Sampley said that the move would consist of convincing around 10 per cent of Republicans to sign a pledge promising that they would not vote for McCain, and re-establish the real conservative roots of the Republican Party.

"We were the first to open up on John Kerry and we took a lot of crap," said Sampley, "the same stuff's going to be thrown at us about McCain that was thrown at us about John Kerry," said Sampley.

"McCain is a deceiver, he is the great deceiver, you can't trust him," he added.

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Sampley dismissed the importance of McCain's delegate support, saying that as long as 10 per cent could be made to sign the pledge, the Republicans would be forced to jettison McCain, leading to a brokered convention and the selection of a different nominee.

"When the Republican establishment is confronted with the cold fact that if the party nominates McCain, all efforts to win the presidency will be in vain. It will be forced to "broker" the leftist McCain into oblivion where he rightfully belongs," reads the GOP Tea Party website.

Whether Sampley's efforts will be successful largely hinges on whether establishment Republican-leaning and Neo-Con news outlets and talk radio give the campaign any attention. Can the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Glenn Beck really be relied upon to sink McCain's aspirations or will they mothball the story to ensure a completely staged McCain vs. Hillary contest ensues?


 

[muskeg13]

I'm all for this.  Where do I sign my pledge?  The support I gave the Swift Vets last election was money well spent.  They sure torpedoed Kerry by exposing him for the fraud he is. 

[billy_56081]

I'm really afraid of a McCain/ Demoncrat race this fall. I see see McCain as only slightly right of the Demoncrats.

[tn_junk]

The American people have spoken.
Every body's so tired of the same nonsense from the Bushites and the Radical Right that they are going to go off in a totally different direction. Obama or McCain. JMHO, it is a knee jerk reaction to the deceit and underhanded actions of the present administration and the efforts of the Republican party to become a pseudo church/state.
Not saying that it will be good, just that it is totally the fault of the Bushes and the core conservative Republicans that the public is going to throw them out.

alan

[ironglow]

Tn jnk;

    Take heart..at least you can hold your nose and vote for McCain..and help keep the "sleeper" out of the presidency.

  He has virtually already vowed to cut our "war on terror"..who will he be working for ?

[crustaceous]

Save your money
The swifties "threat " to derail McCain was made almost a year ago
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/AntiMcCain_vets_ready_their_salvo_against_0302.html
Doesn't look like they've done very well.

[Dee]

I personally don't think McCain is to the right or left of Hilary or Obama. I think he is BEHIND them. Vote for any of these three, and you get basically the same. Two are peace niks, and one is a war dog. That's about the only difference.

[alsaqr]

"We hope to start a revolution within the Republican Party to cleanse it of all the left-leaning Republicans and McCain is a leftist if you look at his major activity," he added, pointing out that McCain has direct links to the Clintons and would be no different than having Hillary in the White House."



Sampley is a total blithering idiot.  Sounds like he gets all his news from those ultra-conservative news sources Coulterdiest and Fat Butt Limbaugh.  Which super-conservative knight does Sampley suppose is going to save the US from the liberals this year?   

Yep:  Give the election to Obama.   According to Coulterdiest and Limbaugh we need 4-16 years of Democrats in control of the US to "cleanse" the Republican party.   Within four years the US military will be further gutted, Iraq and Afghanistan will be surrendered, al Queta and the Taliban will be appeased, national health care will be in effect, slavery reparations will be a fact of life and your guns will be gone because of a UN mandate that Obama signed off on.   

[coldmold]

  I have a first cousin who was in the hanoi hilton with macain, He tells me that macain was indeed tortured just as the rest of them and everything he says about his time there is true.  I have known my cousin fro over 60 years and will take his word over this stamply fellow any day.
  I dont care for alot of what macain stands for politicly but will vote for him before obama or the b  tch.

[Questor]

What really matters is his policy positions and his history in public office.

[myronman3]

say what you want about mccain politically; i might even agree. 

but dont be P!$$!*@  on his military service record.    alot he does i really dont like and i wouldnt call myself a supporter of him.   if he gets the nod i most likely wont vote for him,  but i'll be damned if i stand back where it is safe and take pots shots at a guy who has been there, done that, and has the scars to prove it.

you guys debate his record and stance all you want.   but do show the man a little respect for his service; i for one submit he at least has earned THAT.   

[alsaqr]

"but i'll be damned if i stand back where it is safe and take pots shots at a guy who has been there, done that, and has the scars to prove it."

 

I second that. 

McCain's military decorations include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

[myronman3]

I just don't care for his politics and who he hangs out with these days.

like i said....

say what you want about mccain politically; i might even agree.