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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (69357)	6/16/2006 3:22:08 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 173976

Kerry: Still Swifting After all These Years John Kerry - who, by the way, claims to have served in Vietnam, but won't release his military records to prove it - is determined to get those bad people at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Kerry mantra - endlessly repeated in the left blogosphere - is that each and every accusation of the Swifties has definitively been proven false. Given this, it is odd that Kerry still finds it vital to re-prove what is already proven, but that is what he's doing, according to Thomas Lipscomb: As the Kate Zernike front page Memorial Day weekend New York Times story indicates, a number of Kerry supporters were disappointed that Kerry had not vigorously defended himself against the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 Presidential campaign. According to Zernike some "are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the Swift boat group's charges as a lie and put to rest any question about Mr. Kerry's valor in combat." That might not only be a difficult task but it could backfire badly. As Vanity Fair's acerbic columnist Michael Wolff said in the 3-minute 2-second trailer to a Kerry-sponsored (and Kerry-censored) documentary campaign film by respected producer Steve Rosenbaum, Inside the Bubble, the real problem with the Swift Boat claims was they were "largely true." And as former Dean of the Stanford Law School Bayless Manning has cautioned enthusiastic advocates, "As an attorney, you needn't worry too much about the lies told by your opponents. Your real danger is the lies told by your client." Ask the ghost of Alger Hiss. Libscomb's article is mostly to do with Kerry's first Purple Heart; awarded under what can only be described as questionable circumstances. Do read the whole thing, but the main thing here is that Kerry's story about that first Purple Heart is so full of holes and inconsistencies as to be laughable - but Kerry is having at it. Why? Well, he's planning on running for President in 2008 - given that he still hasn't released his service records, we can only presume by this point that he never will. This is a definite indication that a full release of those records would look bad for Kerry - and that means that the Swifties are probably on to something when they question Kerry's service. So, for a man planning on running in 2008, he needs to do something - and what he is doing is just another leftwing Big Lie effort - Kerry and his minions and his parrots in the left blogosphere are just going to keep on repeating, ad nauseum, that the Swifties are proven liars - this way, they hope, by 2008 the Swifties will be so compromised in the public mind that no one will pay them much attention. It won't work, but Kerry is just dumb enough to think it will - at any rate, it keeps him busy and keeps us entertained. Posted by Mark Noonan at June 12, 2006 01:54 AM