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This is the level of campaign discussion of the Mind Control issue; then
again
perhaps humour has its uses. Alfred
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Yanking His McChain
Web Site Posits That Candidate Is a Southeast Asia Pawn
By Michael Powell and Tom Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 16, 2000; Page C01
Et tu, Khmer Rouge?
That John McCain has roiled the Republican establishment is
well known.
Each day its howitzers fire new rounds: liar, hypocrite,
and--God save his
soul--closet liberal.
Now Paul Weyrich, a sachem of modern social conservatism,
discerns a
novel bat in the attic. McCain, he suggests, could be a
Manchurian
candidate, arguably the first Republican presidential
candidate sponsored by
Hanoi.
As to his source?
"The Cambodian Khmer Rouge has claimed that 'McCain is a
Vietnamese
agent,' for what it's worth," Weyrich writes in a widely
circulated e-mail
column for his Free Congress Foundation.
Weyrich briefly forswore electoral politics last year
before taking up the
cudgel for the recently expired candidacy of Steve Forbes.
His column is
sparse on additional proof. He cites a POW-MIA Web site,
though an
examination of it suggests it's a tad longer on saliva than
facts. And he notes,
ominously, that there are families of POWs and MIAs who
"accuse
[McCain] of being a traitor."
Weyrich, who did not return several calls seeking comment,
adds helpfully in
his e-mail column that it is "hard to know who is telling
the truth in all of this.
. . . There must be some basis for the emotions expressed
by otherwise
rational people."
All of this does not set McCain to quaking. (And, really,
couldn't that be just
a sign of his programming?!)
Riding the bus from downtown Detroit to Warren, Mich.,
recently, McCain
and his consultant, Mike Murphy, had a bit of fun with the
Manchurian
candidate theory. They crafted a fictitious
counter-strategy known as
"Operation Banjo," in which they would trick George W. Bush
into believing
the charge and acting on it.
The imaginary plan goes like this: Get a reporter to
convince Bush that
McCain is a commie agent and that a key word--banjo--would
set him off.
Then Bush would stalk into the next debate armed for an
expose, and, in this
shared fantasy, use his opening statement to declare:
"All my conservative compassion goes out to the young,
single mother on the
outskirts of poverty whose fine, young Hispanic son needs
support so he can
learn his wonderful gift for the banjo."
At which point Bush would turn to watch McCain quiver and
shake. Or not.
"Remember, this was the period when I was crazy," McCain
says of the
time two months back when several newspaper stories
explored charges
that time in Vietnamese prisons had damaged his pysche to
the point that he
could not control his temper.
"McNuts, McWacko, Crazy Times Demand Crazy Candidate,"
Murphy says
in a parody of the headlines at that time.
There is, to all of this silliness, a serious undercurrent.
McCain was an early
advocate of normalizing relations with Vietnam, and has not
displayed great
patience for those who claim that the Southeast Asian
nation is holding on to
prisoners 25 years after the fall of Saigon. So some vets
have been unhappy
with him for years and the whispers date back to the '80s.
A few retired
military types have written letters to the Navy, urging
officials to revoke
McCain's medals for his time as a prisoner.
More broadly, Marshall Wittmann, a McCain supporter and
former
legislative director for the Christian Coalition, sees a
Republican K Street
elite and the social conservative establishment facing the
same conundrum:
their growing irrelevance. For years, Republican candidates
kowtowed to
them. Now the Republican mainstream is edging toward the
center and the
shock troops of the conservative movement have scattered.
The Christian
Coalition is in decline and Bush, the establishment's
anointed prince, is
scrambling to preserve his crown.
"You have the conservatives in a deep panic pulling out the
most grotesque
and obscene tactics," Wittmann says. "The K Street
establishment and the
conservative establishment are united in fearing someone
who they can't
control."
Yeah, well. Just what you'd expect a Manchurian candidate's
supporter to
say, right? Ted Sampley, former Special Forces sergeant and
the Web site
author whom Weyrich cites, sees right through it. The
Vietnamese, Sampley
says, "know exactly what makes John McCain flinch, what
makes him
laugh. They know his personality because they owned him for
5 1/2 years."
McCain's bus pulls into Warren. The candidate has already
warned
reporters that caffeine sets him off, activating those
radio waves coming
from God knows where in the Vietnamese foothills, where
graying former
Viet Cong operatives study South Carolina voting patterns
and relay
instructions for media buys.
Suddenly he's sticking out his tongue, shaking his head
back and forth. "Stop
those voices," he says. "Stop those voices."
Then he looks at the reporters and cracks up--laughing.
� Copyright 2000 The Washington Post Company
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