Kerry's war record may be in doubt, or debateable, but his actions as a US senator to screw the POW/MIA families is well documented. I still see black POW/MIA flags flying even here in WA (no, not anywhere near Seattle, of course), and when Kerry's sucking up to the Viet Cong gets played in the press, people will soften on him.
The more I think about it, the more I'd rather run against Kerry's documented record, than the chance that Howard the Coward will go ballistic in a debate with GWB. Let the Rat voters drink the Kool-Aid of a Kerry candidacy, thinking that a vote for him in a primary erases the guilt they feel towards the way they treated Vietnam veterans and their families thirty years ago. It'll blow up in their faces.
The problem with Howard Dean is that he was too honest. The rest of the Demonrats are all Howard Deans in their radical hatred of President Bush and their radical liberalism(Joe Lieberman the only exception). They masquerade it. They are now going with Kerry due to his supposed experience with national security and foreign policy/military matters all because he trumpets it over and over-HE IS A VIETNAM VETERAN. Yes, that's it folks. He's the modern day Benedict Arnold. Elect him Commander-in-Chief. His post military career in trashing fellow GIs, in disgracing his country in mocking it and apologetic towards the VietCong, throwing the medals, his longstanding Senate voting record that will come back to haunt him in that it will in fact show how he voted on major issues. He's attempting to try to position himself on both sides of an issue and is coming across very Wesley Clark-like.