McCain's Melanoma...And So the Attacks Begin

You knew that the Left would balk at nothing to win this 2008 Presidential Election, so you should not be surprised that, suddenly, John McCain's 2000 bout with skin cancer (melanoma) would become a topic of discussion.

This is just the start. McCain's age is ripe for attack and the Dems have already begun to make little cutting remarks and ask questions about his capability of withstanding the rigors of being President of the United States of America.

Democrats are nothing if not ruthless and hateful in their political tactics. Remember it was Al Gore, not George Bush who first floated the Willie Horton issue in the 1988 presidential campaign. So why would anyone be surprised by this latest "trial balloon" being floated by the Democrat Party surrogates in the MSM?

This from the International Herald Tribune (by way of the Drudge Report):

Little spoken on the campaign trail: McCain's bouts with melanoma

By Lawrence K. Altman
March 9, 2008

Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain's physical appearance are his puffy left cheek and the scar that runs down the back of his neck.

The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has "more scars than Frankenstein."

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not.

But because such a test cannot be definitive, the surgeons, with McCain's advance permission, removed the surrounding lymph nodes and part of the parotid gland, which produces saliva, in the same operation, which lasted five and a half hours.

The final pathology analysis showed no evidence of spread of the melanoma, his staff said at the time. McCain, of Arizona, has said he did not need chemotherapy or radiation.

Uhhh yeah Lawrence, little spoken of, but you don't mind speaking of it do you? This is the old "Not to mention McCain's melanoma problem, but did you know about McCain's melanoma problem? Not that it's any big deal, but do you think it might be a big deal that McCain has had melanoma? Oh yeah, it has been in remission for sometime, but you never know..." ad infinitum, ad nauseum routine that Liberals like to play.

These Liberal media types are so predictable. Now that Senator John McCain, their favorite Republican, has been forced upon the Republican Party largely by RINO's and the Republican machine, with the assistance of large crossover voting by Liberals hoping to influence the Republican ticket, the MSM who have championed McCain, can begin to tear him down.

The goal of these "off-hand" comments is to try and find some issue that will stick to McCain and torpedo his Presidential aspirations. In pursuing this, the Leftist media will spare no effort. They want a female or black Democrat as president and they will do whatever's necessary to make it happen, even if it means tearing down someone they admire.

I have made it clear that I do not like McCain as a prospective president and that I am disinclined to vote for his election, but these kinds of below the belt attacks cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. This is an attempted political assassination by implication and association. Lawrence and his fellow hit teams don't care whether McCain is likely to face further difficulties with cancer, they only wish to raise the issue in an effort to skewer his presidential campaign.

I still have not decided whether or not I will support McCain in the general election, but the more of these attacks I see and the more I hear Hillary and Barack promote pure socialism, the closer I draw to voting for McCain. I may have to take an air-sickness bag with me to the voting booth, but I could very well wind up voting for him.

All the Democrats are offering us is a return to the failed policies of the sixties and seventies, with huge increases in welfare spending, socialized medicine, and high marginal tax-rates. They want to return to the failed socialism of the past.

The rest of the Western world is moving in the opposite direction, moving toward more capitalist economies.

It's true that Obama offers us change. Hillary offers us change as well. They will be real vessels for change. The problem is the change they are offering is a big step backwards into the dark years of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. The change they offer is change for the worse. They will lead us down the path to lower employment, sluggish economies, and rampant inflation; the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter's term.

I have seen the "future" that Hillary and Barack offer. I lived through it and it was disasterous for the American people and our psyche. It was a time not of "shared prosperity," but of shared misery. Of course Liberals love misery. If they aren't able to complain, if the American people are not suffering, then Liberals can't relax and "enjoy" their lives.

Afterall, we are America and so we are the greatest evil on the face of the planet. Liberals believe that if one is prosperous, then they are bad and have done something evil to achieve that prosperity. Therefore they suffer from guilt at living in the most prosperous nation on Earth and continually seek a means of bringing that prosperity to an end.

Liberls dream of the halcyon days of our national post Vietnam depression. They were in total control of our government, everyone (so they thought) was properly miserable, so naturally Democrats were in Heaven.

Well we are now faced with the very real possibility of having to live through such times again, because Liberals have successfully crippled our education system to the point that younger voters are completely unaware of the misery that Democrat Party policies brought about in America.

The difficult task facing Republicans and McCain is the education of those young voters who have become so enamored of the platitudes of the Left. They have never learned the failings of socialism, never witnessed the misery that the false promises and empty rhetoric of the Left causes.

We definitely have our work cut out for us it we are to avoid another descent into the morass that was the misery of Democrat policy. It took the optimism and patriotic love of country that Ronald Reagan had to shake Americans out of the Jimmy Carter malaise.

I am not so sanguine about John McCain's ability to lift the nation up into the optimism of the eighties.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

What do you think?

To leave your opinion click on the word "COMMENT(S)" below