He and the group made it clear that they were doing this for the Vietnam vets ---- not for George Bush. The RAT Kool-Aid drinkers tried to claim that the SwiftVets were partisan Republicans. They are not. John has wanted that to always be made clear so that the claims of the bias media could be shown to be false. They did the right thing.
I'm sure it hasn't happened, but I'll bet there's a part of President Bush that would love to thank O'Neill for exposing Kerry. Bush has to know the that it was the Guns of August that torpedoed Kerry's campaign.