My recollection is that the Republican establishment and the McCain campaign wanted nothing to do with the Swift Boat Veterans and that it was hard for the Swift Boat Veterans to get their message out (given the media's protectiveness towards Kerry).
Kerry is a traitor--while still in the Navy he went to Paris to act as consultant to the enemy negotiators (North Vietnamese and VC). Then he tried to use his military service as a vote-getter in 2004 while his lackeys in the press were creating fake documents to use against President Bush.
I think he let Douglas Brinkley look at his military records--a shameless lickspittle for Democratic politicians who could be trusted not to reveal anything embarrassing.
Vietnam journalist here, and contributor to the book “Unfit for Command”.
Those of us who worked on the book, including Jerome Corsi and Scott Swett, are still in the fight, quietly in some cases, loud as in Jerry’s books, in another mode.
The Left fears the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth About John Kerry, and Obama fears a “Navy Seals for the Truth about the Killing of Osama Bin Laden”.
LET IT HAPPEN, GUYS! You have earned the right to tell the public the truth. DO IT!
PS: My dog in the fight, my son, crossed over into Iraq in the early morning of March 22, 2003. THe name of his company, 299th Engineers, MRB, slogan “First Forward”.
One of his grandfathers fought on Iwo.
Count us all in against Obama. It ain’t over till the fat lady is kicked out of the White House, along with her traitorous husband.
The Republican Establishment wanted nothing to do with the Swift Boat Veteraans, and it appears to want nothing to do with the Conservative movement, IMO.
I read Brinkley's puff-piece bio of Kerry and I read Corsi's "Unfit For Command." One thing that impressed me about Corsi's book was how heavily annotated it was - with quotes from Brinkley's book, no less..
Some may forgive Kerry for his treason, but I am not among them. He should have been summarily court-martialed, then taken out and dispatched by a firing squad.
Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)