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Wednesday, 16th January 2008

The US elections are about to turn dirty

James Forsyth 1:32pm

Mitt Romney’s win in the Michigan Republican primary makes this Saturday’s Republican vote in South Carolina all the more important. If John McCain wins there, he should—barring disasters—end up as the Republican nominee. If he doesn’t, the race becomes wide open and Rudy Giuliani’s much criticised late state strategy could end up paying off.

Politics is a dirty business in South Carolina and in 2000 John McCain was defeated in one of the nastiest campaigns ever conducted. No blow was too low. It was claimed that been turned while a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was really a Communist sleeper agent and that his adopted Bangladeshi baby was really an illegitimate child from an affair with a black woman.

This time round the McCain camp claim they are ready for the dirty tricks. They better be. There is already a flier out there claiming that McCain, who was so badly tortured in Vietnam that to this day he can’t lift his arms above his shoulders, sung like a “songbird” to his captors.

The Democrats vote a week after the Republicans in South Carolina and that contest looks like it to will suffer from baseless accusations being thrown around. One South Carolina Democrat I spoke to in Washington last week was bemoaning how effective the Obama is a Muslim agent smear has been down in the state. 

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Danvers

January 16th, 2008 3:12pm

Actually, I thought it was quite true that McCain cannot comb his own hair because of the permanent damage caused to his shoulders by the torture he suffered in Vietnam. I am not sure that detracts from his political appeal - if anything, it adds to it.

The Tense Police

January 16th, 2008 4:06pm

"sang", not "sung".

Spell Squad

January 16th, 2008 9:47pm

Tense Police. You missed. '...it to will suffer...'

Nancy Baumgartner, USA

January 18th, 2008 1:14am

This article leaves out the most diabolical schemers of all the candidates; the parasite Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her handlers.

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