[dennisw]

Sort of the John Kerry/campaign2004 obituary written by his local Boston Globe hallelujah chorus. A long piece to be sure.

"We came here not to bury Kerry but to praise him"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The postmortem.

[jocon307]

"We came here not to bury Kerry but to praise him"


yes, yes, well put!

[dennisw]

Now, as Kerry campaign strategists try to fathom his Nov. 2 loss, one word emerges out of the rubble: war. History suggested the difficulties of beating a wartime president, even one with a job approval rating under 50 percent. But Kerry's own tortured relationship to war, dating to his youth, enabled the GOP to portray him as weak and inconsistent.

On Vietnam, Kerry had been both war hero and antiwar protester: Angry veterans were able to turn those contrasting roles into an attack on the candidate's character with a $25 million dollar ad campaign in swing states.

A lie!

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spent $11,836,949

http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win/irs_ef_527.exe?DoFn=&sYR=2004

And I looked and saw no other 527 that could have added to the Swift Vets to reach this $25 million dollar figure