The head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/

has a checkered past, though you wouldn't know it if all you read was
the ConWeb. Not only does he have an arrest record -- specifically, a
conviction for misdemeanor assault
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nati...printstory.jsp
for attacking an aide to Sen. John McCain, who calls him "one of the
most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter" --
Sampley is also the source of the McCain-as-Manchurian-candidate meme
http://www.cnsnews.com/Commentary/Ar...20000104a.html
that Paul Weyrich tried to spread in the 2000 Republican presidential
primary when McCain was surging against George W. Bush. (Sampley has his
own rambling defense on the whole issue.)
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjoh...er_keating.htm