With campaign co-chairmen like John McCain, does President Bush really need the DNC? So far, McCain is doing far more for John Kerry inside the Bush campaign than he move have done outside of it. First, there was his immediate and loud call for the Adminstration to accept the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, which along with similar refrains from Democrats and a smattering of Republicans, put Bush-Cheney back on its heels on terrorism (no easy feat). Today, McCain rips the Vietnam vets who are attacking Kerry's war record, and calls on the White House to repudiate their new ad attacking the Democratic nominee. Calling the ad, set to run in battleground states, "dishonest and dishonorable," McCain went on to say, "it was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me'' in 2000. Says the Senator:
"It reopens all the old wounds of the Vietnam War, which I spent the last 35 years trying to heal. I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. I think George Bush served honorably in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.''
