Byron York has a remarkable piece up at National Review Online (photo also courtesy of NRO) about this young man who gave his Purple Heart to John McCain and others who come to see McCain. How is this guy not winning?
At John McCain’s rallies these days, the talk is of taxes and Joe the Plumber and the financial crisis and mortgage relief and an end to wasteful federal spending. Those are all perfectly fine things for a campaign to emphasize; polls show voters of all stripes are overwhelmingly concerned about the economy. But at McCain’s events, you’ll also find people who’ve come for another reason, one that is slipping in the polls of voters’ concerns but is deeply personal to them: the war in Iraq.
“I just gave John McCain my Purple Heart,” Marine Sgt. Jack Eubanks told me a few minutes after McCain finished a speech at a campaign rally in Woodbridge, Virginia Saturday. “I said, ‘I want to give this to you, sir, as a reminder that we want you to keep your promise to bring us home in victory and honor, so it will mean something.’“
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The left hate this type of thing…it reminds them of what they are…moraly bankrupt and what they can never ever be…honourable.
“How is this guy not winning?”
That’s rhetorical right?
From the article: “After sacrificing 86 of those brave young 19- and 20-year-olds, they left. I mean, it’s unconscionable.”
Isn’t that what happened in Korea and Vietnam. Thank God for General Petraus (sp) who learned from history’s mistakes and did not repeat them.
TCT… yeah… You think McCain of all people would realize that they don’t just give offices out. You have to actually run a competent campaign — earn it.
The more accurate question is “How is Barack still so close?” His background and lack of experience give a lot of folks pause. McCain has fumbled the opportunity — hopefully not fatally, but I’m not optimistic.
Buck up Floyd. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. Obama has $500 mil, a Chicago-style political machine, and a vast left wing media conspiracy to help him and the most he can do is run even. If the media had done the same job as the new media, Obama would have been run out of town a long time ago. As it is, the IBD polls show them even and they were on the money in 2004.
McCain has made mistakes. But when everyone is against you, even the small mistakes look big.
I started reading The Puritans by Jack Cavanaugh this week and on the first page it said, “God is at His best when man is at his worst.” My money is still on McCain, but if it’s God’s will, we get to see what He does next.