"Kerry made a huge mistake by focusing attention of what he did 35 years ago when he was 25 years old. What he has lost is far greater than anything he has gained."
I agree with your post, unclewest. The campaign is not yet over. But the Democratic candidate is, as you say, severely wounded.
It is interesting that Kerry and the DNC are today involved in their own version of the Battle of the Bulge.
They are attempting to stanch the continuing heavy flow of blood caused by the first and the second Swift Boat ads. They are desperate to get them banned from the airwaves. Their battle of the bulge is apparent. And it is apparent that Kerry and the DNC and the MoveOn Soros crowd are losing.
To fully comprehend their current dismay and disorientation, all one has to do is to look at the latest poll of Veterans who plan to vote.
Kerry has lost an amazing percentage of points while Bush has not only has held his own but has gathered in all of those veterans' votes that Kerry has lost and is losing.
[According to CNN (unfair and unbalanced) the latest poll of Veterans is Bush 55% and Kerry 37%. Watch Kerry continue to slide.]
The would-be-commander-in-chief, with his famous cry "Bring IT OWN!" was in reality saying HELP!!
Now that cry of HELP is getting louder and louder. And all of the liberal media, from the New York Times on up, are rallying to Kerry's cause. Note that these "completely unfair and unbalanced" sources of opinion shunned the Swift Boat Veterans as if they were confronting a political plague that had to be ignored. So they ignored them--including the Swift Boat's initial press conference, as if they were undeserving of any kind of attention.
Then, when the SB's got traction, the NYT and their fellow travelers could no longer ignore what they were saying. The NYT resorted to its TRUE stripes . Today's front page demonstrates the phenomenon. The NYT has now emerged from behind its earlier pretensions. Now, it is all about our great hero, John Kerry, and those awful lying Americans, the Swift Boat contingent of the US NAVY, Kerry's contemptuous former colleagues.
As you concluded, unclewest: "Maybe the third (Swift Boad Ad) will finish (Kerry) off. Like he finished off that wounded VC."
Kerry robbed many of the Viet Vets of their pride of service. Now they are expressing their contempt for Kerry, a contempt well-earned.
PS: I have read that Kerry was visibly shaken and deeply disturbed at his reception before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Once again, Kerry reveals his complete lack of understanding of who he is, where he came from, where he is going, and what people think of him as he continues his bus trip across America's heartland.
And Kerry expected better treatment at the Vet's Convention.
The man is still suffering from delusions of political grandeur. |
