 He was vocal in his opposition to the nomination of Senator John McCain as the Republican candidate in the 2008 presidential election, in part due to McCain's failure to acknowledge evidence of live American POWs left behind following the Vietnam War.LeBoutillier has written several books, most-notably the 1978 best-seller "Harvard Hates America", a work similar in theme to William F. Buckley's 1950 "God and Man at Yale".In 1989 he wrote "Vietnam Now; The Case for Normalization" and in 1979 co-authored a novel, "Primary".