McCAIN: DEGRADING MILITARY EXPERIENCE?

Lately it seems that every time John McCain can't answer a question, or can't explain past behavior, he and his camp pull out the POW Card. It's starting to get old. Here's Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) on McCain's new tactic.

We obviously honor and respect McCain's service and the five-and-a-half years of horror that he went through at the hands of the North Vietnamese; but it's not an excuse for everything. He has already used it to explain away his infidelities in his first marriage. He's used it to defend his healthcare plan ... just the other day [he] used it to deflect accusations of having skirted the rules of the Saddleback forum.

It's time for the Senator to stop cheapening the war experiences of thousands of vets and his fellow POWs, and his own as well, by stretching the boundaries of logic to make his POW status a wild-card rebuttal to all accusations or an answer to all difficult questions.

Pretty much sums it up.

- Mark