McCain Camp Practicing Politics of Mass Distraction

While the McCain campaign clings to the mock outrage of General Clark's evaluation of military service not necessarily preparing anyone for elected office, they quietly hired Col. Bud Day, perhaps the most prominent members of the "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth". Day will serve as a campaign adviser and head of the campaign's "Truth Squad," which is "aimed at countering the recent attacks on McCain’s military record."

The hypocritical irony is as thick as it gets. The McCain campaign manufactures outrage over a non attack on his military record by an Army General to justify the hiring of a man intimately familiar with the distortion of a hero's military record.

Arguably no one has ever done a better job of such attacks than Day and his cronies when they single handedly leveled outrageous attack after outrageous attack on Senator John Kerry's military record during the 2004 Presidential campaign. Day actually suggested that Kerry faked injuries and exaggerated accounts in order to inflate his own record.

Clearly the McCain camp assumed that no one would be watching while Day was brought into the fold. No such luck. McCain himself recognizes the problem with this since he was a loud critic of the Swift Boaters tactics in 2004. Looks like the combat boot is on the other foot.