Shove Me In The Shallow Water Before I Get Too Deep

This is by far the silliest thing written so far in the Never Ending Silly Season

It should be noted that the Minnesota Monitor isn’t a real news source in the traditional sense; it is completely funded by liberal fat-cat moneybags George Soros in order to get the “progressive” message out.

Some “progress”. Out of all the things McCain can be legitimately criticized for, this twit at the Monitor chose to mock John McCain’s—–TEETH!

Good lord, it don’t get no dummer than that. Immediately, thinking, rational, informed people flooded the comments section denouncing the twit for her ignorance. You see, McCain lost his teeth during his stay at a North Vietnamese prison camp—-they were knocked out at the root. This would seem to be the least of what he endured as a POW, but those deep-thinking “progressives” know in politics, it’s LOOKS that count.

Eventually, Monitor “management” stepped in and apologized for this Twit-O-Rama, but the damage has been done—-the internet is forever, even if teeth aren’t.

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But this is just part of something larger. Whenever I see some leftwinger denigrating McCain by saying something like “how brave can he be—-he got shot down”, I cringe.

I have a lot of objections to some of McCain’s policy positions, but the sort of casual dismissal of his war time history by the left leads me to believe something else is going on here.

Here is what is discomforting about McCain: We know how McCain reacted when tortured but we don’t know what we would do in similar circumstances.

It’s not something that is at the front of everyone’s mind, but it goes to the heart of who and what we are. Would we immediately cave and give our torturers everything they wanted? We we bargain and collaborate with them? Would we hang tough and not give in? Would we be willing to die in service to our country? 

Is surviving a POW camp a qualification for POTUS? Probably not any more than being the wife of a former POTUS or being a Half-Kenyan/Half-Kansan from Hawaii, but McCain brings a whole different level of experience to the table.