I think Pat's right, but how in the hell are you going to take down a sitting President with the news that he didn't show up for a physical while in the NG?
Ok, let's see, on the one hand w/kerry you've got unreleased records, post-war activity that in previous times would have resulted in him being hung or hanged, however that goes. And on the other, you have a Guardsman who liked to party. Ok, social stallion on one hand, traitor on the other?
Again, how is that going to take down a sitting President? Arrogance is a beautiful thing though, it took down that filthy Hitler, what with his aversion to "Jewish" physics, and it took down CBS.
And the really scary part of this whole deal is that this type of activity is 100% USSR Prime. Republic, if we can keep it indeed!
Its just bizzare isnt it?
Well, I think this was a mulit-layered offense. They were going to tie drugs into the mix but who knows what else?
Mapes is the one that was behind the Abu Grabib photos. I don't for a minute think this ended with disobeying an order from an officer. They had other items they were building up to.
Hate clouds your judgment and there are a lot of blind dems running around right now.
Look like deer caught in Swift Boat headlights if you ask me :-}
CNN really, really, really sucks.
Good question, if this was all there was, but remember this was just the opening shot. They wanted to sow doubt in the mind of the American voter, where was Bush, why didn't he take his physical.
The next round was Kitty Kelly's book. Suggestion of drug use. Later they were going to try and tie this all together, perhaps with a late Octomber surprise of their own.
So this nothing story (Bush in the ANG, was just one piece.
By ending it as we have, the other pieces can not be played, or like the Kitty Kelly book, be overshadowed by this story. Speaking of which, Kitty Kelly's book is so yesterday.
As someone else observed, this is going to innoculate the President from a lot of cheap charges coming out over the next few weeks. Unless someone has a signed document by Bush himself, nothing the MSM says about President Bush is going to be believed.