The McCain campaign tries to work the phrase "former prisoner of war" into everything they say, and they try harder in direct proportion to the degree of irrelevance McCain's having been a prisoner of war bears on what they're saying. Concerning the possible attempt at cheating (discussed below), McCain spokesfool Nicolle Wallace had this to say:
Because it is metaphysically impossible that a former prisoner of war ever cheat. The sentence "A former prisoner of war cheated" (or the proposition expressed by that sentence) is analytically false, or false in virtue of meaning, or false in virtue of reference determiners. It would be "outrageous" to asset it because the concept or property "being a prisoner of war" contains or entails the concept or property "being a non-cheater". Right?
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