There's no way I'm voting for McCain if it's true he french-kissed Angela Lansbury

I mean, she was kind of hot in Bedknobs and Broomsticks in a kind of 1950s Disney MILF sort of way, but still. Weirdness:

Meanwhile, the McCain campaign had no comment on the new 527, known as “Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.” It is founded by the same veterans who ran an Internet information campaign against Kerry in 2004, “Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.”

Vietnam veterans Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley filed with the IRS late last month and recently launched a website with the “express purpose of defeating John McCain.” In contrast to the 2004 election, the group plans to run ads on television and radio in addition to its Web-based approach.

In 2004, the group made a splash by publicizing pictures of Kerry at anti-war protests in the 1970s, including one showing him several rows behind Jane Fonda. It claims credit for originating many of the attacks used by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth later in the campaign.

Sampley has compared McCain to the brainwashed “Manchurian Candidate” and is highly critical of McCain’s actions after his return home from Vietnam. Sampley calls himself “the one McCain hates most” and has a long history of battling McCain, including a conviction in the early 1990s for assaulting McCain aide Mark Salter.

“He has a false, media-created image of himself, and we want to correct that,” said Sampley, who publishes the U.S. Veteran Dispatch newspaper. The paper is not associated with the 527 and has endorsed Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.).

In a 2004 New York Times article, McCain called Sampley “one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter.”

“I consider him a fraud who preys on the hopes of family members of missing servicemen for his own profit,” McCain said. “He is dishonorable, an enemy of the truth, and despite his claims, he does not speak for or represent the views of all but a few veterans.”

I fully expect Ol' Fred Thompson to raise his left eyebrow, and all persons everywhere named Ted Sampley---in this world as well as in any Heisenburgian alternative universes---to immediately disapear, their clothes collapsing in heaps on the floor with only a little pile of dust containing their formerly offending essence.

Seriously, though, expect the full dress Chuck Hagel "these are the true Republican heroes" treatment from Saint Andrew and the NYT.

OL' FRED FOR PRESIDENT: No way in hell he's gonna bump uglies with Angela Lansbury