jillian
Princess
Kerry might have taken it if he took the Swift boat liars a little more seriously. But even with that the election was pretty close.
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CLose only counts in Hand Grenades and Horseshoes, Shallow.
I'm always amused how the Swift Vets get blamed for Kerry's loss.
Kerry did himself in on that one.
He tried to paint himself as something he wasn't.
"Only look at my three months in Vietnam where I got three Purple Hearts for superficial injuries! Don't look at my testimony in front of Congress where I accused soldiers of murdering babies. Don't look at the footage of me throwing my...errr someone's medals at Congress. Don't look at a 20 year congressional record of voting against the military. Don't look at my membership in VVAW, which once plotted to assassinate Senators. Don't look at me at the same anti-war rally with Jane Fonda. Don't look at ANY of that stuff. Just look at my three purple hearts. You are getting sleepy."
And then along come the Swift Vets, and they point out, "Uh, yeah, we served with that guy. What an asshole. He got out a week before a well-deserved fragging, truth to be told."
(For those not familiar with "Fragging", it was how enlisted men in Vietnam disposed of bad officers. Come to think of it, Kerry kind of looked like Nedermeyer from Animal House.)
In short, Kerry tried to paint himself as something he wasn't, and he got called on it. And unlike the GOP Congressman who gets caught with the hooker, he didn't even attempt to m ake a half-assed apology for it.
the swift boat liars SHOULD be blamed for Kerry's loss. well, his refusal to take them seriously until it was too late, anyway.
i'm always amused by how the right tried to take a war hero and make him a goat and took a goat (baby bush) whose daddy got him into the national guard so he wouldn't have to go to vietnam and tried to turn him into a war hero....
and then let someone with 5 deferments and his fellow neo-con PNAC extremists control our foreign policy.