Posted on 08/20/2004 10:23:10 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
Kerry is such a thunderhead. Looks like he wants to stay on the Vietnam issue until Election Day. Bush by 12% if this keeps up.
Yes, it just makes citizens like me more angry. By the way, I had several male relatives serve in the National Guard during the Vietnam War era, and it was considered an honorable form of service. I remember those times well, and I can assure the younger people of today that nobody at the time thought it was dishonorable to get into the National Guard.
But the Democrats started slinging mud in the Gore 2000 campaign against National Guard service, thereby casting aspersions on these people who served their country honorably. The Democrats started the mud campaign, but the Republicans will finish it.
So which is better--an "uneventful" military career that actually happened or a heroic career that was made up?
To be fair, we should give Kerry a swift boat.
Bush has a war record?
Bush will fart in Kerry's general direction. He has filed his SF180.
The truth is that Kerry challenged Bush to discuss their respective services. I remember the look Mr. Bush gave Gore when Gore tried to act the alpha male in the debates. He will figuratively give the same look to Kerry.
Memo to the metrosexual gigolo faux war hero pompous windbag presidential wannabe:
You have been attacking the president on everything including his war record for nearly a year and it hasn't gained you a thing.
When leftists like Kerry don't address the substance of the charge but instead sound like conspiracy theorists by saying that Bush is behind this, we know we need to see your medical records more than ever.
I've moved from wanting to see his military records to feeling it's imperative to seeing his medical records; my guess is he's on an anti-psychotic drug.
LOL
so, the dems aren't going to start attacking the presidents war record, they are going to continue to attack his war record.
slimy lying b*stards.
Kerry shot some teenagers in sampans and pulled a crewmate out of the water after he put him there.
Bush defeated two of the most brutal regimes in the world and liberated 50 million people.
BRING IT ON!
Just when you think that no one is more inept at campaigning than Bush, along comes John Kerry to lower the bar.
How 'bout a swift boot?
Or better yet, the President can fly his F102 and Kerry can pilot his Swift Boat. LOL!
The oooooooooooooooooooooooooooold 'I-know-I-am-but-what-are-you?" defense.
Speaking of Bush's military service, does Commander-in-Chief count? Little higher than Lt. (j.g.).
If Kerry were smart he would stop putting everything into the context of his war actions. To say he would do what he did 30 years ago and turn toward enemy fire just gives the vets another reason to look at his record. Sounds to me he didn't turn toward but away from what he thought was enemy fire.
Anyone notice how Kerry pronounces Ghengis Khan in that sound clip? I think phonetically it's something like: Jengis Shan.
Does anyone remember the character Charles Winchester on the tv show MASH? They chose a guy with that snobbish upper crust Boston accent because they knew that would make him a dislikable character the moment he spoke. Kerry sounds like Charles Winchester!
This is a minor point, but it all adds to one big (w)hole.
He most certainly does. He was Commander in Chief during two major battles in the War on Terror. He has liberated the people of Afghanistan from the Taliban and the people of Iraq from Saddam Hussein.
Don't forget the mainline media will protect him no matter what. I'm with the SBVT. Let the chips fall where they fall. These guys have a right to participate.
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