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Some weeks ago WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah was ravaged by some of our
readers for daring to question the honor and probity of Sen. John McCain.
Some readers sent -- shall we say -- very disparaging e-mail to our
publication criticizing the boss for calling into question McCain's personal
integrity.
I'll admit I too was a little shocked to learn of the things Joe said about
McCain and his actions while a POW in Vietnam. But I've known Joe too long --
as have many of his critics -- to have simply written off his McCain
characterizations as the rantings of a lunatic or the mere rumblings of sour
grapes. I've also known that WorldNetDaily has consistently taken the lead on
many stories and issues that ultimately prove to be true and accurate. So I
gave him the benefit of doubt.
So it was no surprise to me that, once again, Joe was accurate in his
characterization of a U.S. politician. When I learned that the good senator
had illegally filmed a television campaign commercial in Arlington National
Cemetery, every supposition Joe made about McCain's shady integrity rang
true. Calling a scumbag a scumbag is entirely appropriate when you're right,
but in today's world, sounding mean and intolerant is often considered much
worse than actually being mean and intolerant. That's too bad because it
isn't true.
Essentially, this is the issue. Arlington National Cemetery, a hallowed
"final resting place" for our country's most valued and honored military
veterans -- and a place already exploited and cheapened by the Clinton
administration -- has a rule. That rule says, "We are not partisan and you
cannot use this hallowed place in any partisan political manner, period."
McCain basically gave the finger to the Arlington managerial board and filmed
his commercial there anyway.
Then, after being called up on the matter and told he violated the law, he
again repudiated the board and decided to air his precious little partisan
commercial anyway. In an extreme act of lameness, his campaign staff told
reporters, "Hey -- the senator always visits his father and grandfather here
anyway. We just happened to film him during one such visit." Sure -- and that
film just "happened" to be edited into a cheap campaign commercial. Please.
McCain broke the law. He did it for the most selfish and self-serving reason.
His actions were entirely "partisan." He was filming a campaign commercial,
for goodness sakes.
But he is not going to be punished, more than likely, and he is obviously not
sorry that he did it. One tends to think, by his and his staff's incessant
denials, that they'd all do it again "if necessary" to win the GOP
nomination. I have no doubt they would. I also have no doubt that this entire
stunt reeks of Bill Clinton.
And isn't this just the kind of president we want following Bill Clinton into
the White House -- a self-aggrandizing, exploitative political animal with no
conscience, no sense of decency and honor, and no respect for the law? In a
word, no.
I was suspicious of McCain anyway because I trusted what Joe had written and
because of McCain's generally favorable treatment by a mainstream press that
ordinarily has little use for anyone calling themselves a Republican or a
conservative. His tacky Arlington publicity stunt just ices the cake for me
regarding consideration of a future President John McCain -- which is to say,
not now and not ever.
Furthermore the reaction -- or rather, the lack of it -- by the remainder of
the Republican Party is, in and of itself, telling. Where is the outrage?
Some of the same people who were ready to tar and feather Bill Clinton for
granting Arlington burial waivers to phonies and charlatans are now silent
about McCain's arrogant disregard. Can you say hypocritical?
Is this the kind of politics Americans really want? Does McCain represent the
kind of politician that can bring America back to a state of relative
morality, dignity and honor? Would he be the kind of president that will
instill confidence in our "leadership" among our allies, win hearts and minds
and influence others to emulate our example of liberty?
No, he isn't. So why are we still taking him seriously?
It is becoming almost unbearable to listen to liberals and conservatives
alike describe as somehow "harmful to the nation" the kind of honor depicted
by candidates like Buchanan, Keyes, and Browne -- especially when the
alternatives are little more than repackaged players of "The System." If "The
System" is broken -- Gore, Bradley, Bush and even McCain have all asserted
that it is -- then a company man makes a poor "savior." To fix this broken
"System" requires somebody who hates it as much as the creators of that
"System" love it.
By his actions, McCain has demonstrated that he is a prodigy of this "System"
-- the very same one that gave us Bill Clinton and, to a lesser extent, Al
Gore.
Americans have a choice. They can continue to tolerate the politics of
hypocrisy embodied by the selfish and arrogant exploitations of people like
McCain -- and watch this country slowly swirl into history's toilet. Or they
can proclaim that enough is enough and permanently strip these people of
their ability to trash our country, our institutions, our culture and any
shred of morality we have left. If we don't, then we are complicit in the
theft of our national soul and we will be equally responsible for the
destructive consequences of our negligence.
If we cannot do this for ourselves, then let's at least have the guts to do
it for our children. Let's leave them a country -- and a set of leaders --
they can be proud of. By his own actions, McCain has demonstrated that his
name will not be synonymous with the word "pride."
To the senator, I say show me some real guts and integrity. Drop out of the
race -- today. You're a national embarrassment. And you should pay dearly for
what you've done.
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Jon E. Dougherty is a staff writer for WorldNetDaily.
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