August 23, 2004
A Prediction
This Swiftvetpartisansfortruth shit is going to blow up in W's face.
Listen: I don't care if they're right. I don't care if Kerry scratched himself and pled shrapnel. You can't win this game.
Why? Because Americans don't like hearing someone they had anointed with laurels and medals is a charlatan. It makes them (us) feel like duped fools, and that doesn't play in the red states. That doesn't play anywhere.
Let me put it this way: if Mr. Jaggers says your wife is a whore, and has 254 guys who can attest to it, but can't prove it, who are you going to vote for in the School Board race? Your wife? Or this cocksucker Jaggers' candidate?
There is no reward for lifting the scales from one's eyes. That is a damned fact.
Kerry's record as a traitorous antiwar activist is fair game. The fact he showed callow expediency by abandoning his "band of brothers" after four months on a technical Out with three Purple Hearts is fair game. If he'd lost a leg like Bob Kerrey, sure. But this craven fucker can't even show a scar. That's fair game.
He abandoned his men. That is huge fodder. Use it, if you will.
Lay off the war record, though. That is bad juju.
John Kerry has the Fog of War working for him here. W has the Fog of National Guard records working for him. It doesn't compute, as they say.
There are too many ways to gig John Kerry. Why sink one's teeth in this?
Let's talk about the Winter Soldier testimony. Or that apparently nonexistent 20 year senatorial voting record. Fine. I'm there. But when you make the local Vinny at the American Legion feel like shit because you've exposed a medal winner as a fraud, why, you haven't gained his vote. You've lost it. Vinny ain't gonna vote now. Not for you, the whistleblower.
Thanks for nothing.