Swiftboating McCain

What would it look like if in the General Election the Dems adopt Karl Rove's strategy of attacking the opponent at their greatest strength? Something like this, I imagine:

Jack McLamb is a highly respected name in law enforcement circles. After 9 years of clandestine operations in Cambodia and unmentionable areas, he returned home to Phoenix where he became one of the most decorated police officers on record. ...This man has stated that every one of the many former POWs he has talked with consider McCain a traitor. States McLamb, “He was never tortured…The Vietnamese Communists called him the Songbird, that’s his code name, Songbird McCain, because he just came into the camp singing and telling them everything they wanted to know.” McLamb further quotes former POWs as saying McCain starred in 32 propaganda videos in which he denounced his country and comrades.

In fact, Swift-Boating is a term of praise for the author of this story:

Four years ago McCain loudly defended the glorious hero of the Vietnam War, John Kerry. That would be the young naval officer who hid out in an office until he took command of a river patrol boat for a few weeks. He put in for a purple heart every time he got a scratch or bruise.
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have not died. Their affiliate is Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain, headed by former Sergeant Ted Sampley...

I imagine most if not all of this is bullshit (if the North Vietnamese made 32 videos of McCain renouncing the U.S., why weren't they released? That would have been the entire reason for making them), but it will be interesting to see if anyone tries to run with it in the Fall.
(link via reddit)