Well it's started.  The first repost of an anti-McCain screed held over from his first run at the GOP nomination.  The assessment: McCain's insane.  Well, duh - it even rhymes!

I'm just glad it isn't the "Songbird McCain" group's stuff.  They go so far as to call him a VC collaborator.  These guys are the original "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth".  They even have a similar name, the link to which I will not post here.

This is a general call for folks to avoid getting swept up in this stuff.  It is laying, like so much garbage, in the dark little nooks and crannies of the internets just waiting for some hapless fool to think:"FOUND IT!!!! THIS'LL SINK MCCAIN FOR SURE!".  Don't go there.

In fact, I'd like to encourage all democrats/Obama supporters to do their best to debunk this stuff.  There is no reason to attack the heroism of a man who can be so easily beaten on merit alone.  As important, if they feel his patriotism is attacked - this could easily become a rallying cry for the GOP base (in an amazing twist of irony).

Phillip Butler is a graduate of the US Naval Academy who went to school with McCain.  Later, he had the misfortune of being held in the same POW camp.  Mr. Butler gives a heartfelt and honorable assessment of McCain's fitness to lead, from such a position of authority and for all the right reasons.  I strongly believe that it should be used any time these types of assertions are found.

http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_1,00.html

Anyhow, if you agree - keep the link handy.