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To: LindyBill who wrote (82394)	11/1/2004 8:13:31 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

CAPTAIN ED - Our friend Thomas Lipscomb writes today at the New York Sun that based on records produced at the John Kerry campaign website and military regulations and practice at the time of Kerry's Navy career, John Kerry received a less-than-honorable discharge for his service. Because of Kerry's refusal to make all of his records public and the Privacy Act of 1974, Lipscomb's sources would not go on the record. However, a reserve JAG and a former Navy officer from the Bureau of Personnel have helped Lipscomb build a strong circumstantial case for the negative separation. Sullivan notes the possibility that Kerry received no discharge at all when he separated from the service between 1972 and 1975. Commonly at that time, eligible officers were only issued discharges when being involuntarily separated from the service if their service was deemed honorable; the lack of any discharge was considered a stigma and a highly negative comment on an officer's record. Lipscomb also has more circumstantial evidence of the aftermath of Kerry's discharge which indicates it was either dishonorable or "undesirable". After Kerry left the Navy, he intended on entering law school, but had trouble getting accepted. The official Kerry explanation is that his applications were too late for most schools to consider for the term Kerry wanted to start, but that's not how Lipscomb's source at Harvard remembers it. With a day to go before the election, Kerry managed to skate by without releasing his complete service records, even admitting it on NBC before NBC decided to "sanitize" the records and remove the admission from its interview with Kerry. It follows a pattern of complicity in the mainstream media to cover up John Kerry's even while hypocritically demanding transparency on George Bush's honorable discharge, received normally and on time for his service.

To: LindyBill who wrote (82394)	11/1/2004 4:50:27 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

HEWITT - I spoke to a senior GOP official this morning. Republicans will pick up six House seats in Texas alone, with a strong wind at their backs. The official did not say, but I assume this momentum will replicate in all races to some extent. Just because it is solid red Texas does not mean that opinion trends are isolated there. The election is all about the war, and John Kerry is not a credible Commander-in-Chief and the Dems are not a credible war-fighting party anymore, and will not become one again until the Michael Moore's are run back out of the president's box at the Democratic National Convention. So what will all those DNC mobilized lawyers be doing Wednesday as Bush rolls up a beyond challenge Electoral College margin? Sue for the Senate, of course. As I wrote Friday, Congressman Bob Beauprez's experience with a close race and provisional ballots in 2002 led to five weeks of lawsuits and a million dollars in legal costs. Daschle won't go gently into the night, nor will any other U.S. Senate candidate. There will be overtime in South Dakota's race if Thune wins by less than 1%, and perhaps in other states as well. As Jeffrey Tobin observed on CNN this morning, you don't ship thousands of lawyers all over the country and then expect them to do nothing. Even if it isn't close, the Dems will think of this as training for future election cycles.