It's obvious that you're passionate about Vietnam and about Vietnam protestors. However you might feel about the subject, the average American (that magical 7.5% of the voters who decide the election) believes that the Vietnam war was immoral, stupid, and wasteful. War protestors (well...not Jane Fonda) are generally seen as noble, idealistic, and on the side of right. No one is going to believe that John Kerry and the other war protestors "murdered" anybody, and our saying so isn't going to make it any easier for Bush to get re-elected.
Christ man, what are you going to say when Kerry spins this back as a "Veterans benefits" thing? When he has Ron freaking Kovic rolling up to the microphone to speak about how bad things were at VA hospitals before VVAW and how things improved thanks to Kerry and others like him?
How, in a nation that has been brought up to despise the wrongness of the Vietnam war, are you going to attack Kerry from the right? This is not going to work, and could very well spin back on us.
What nation might that be? The war wasn't wrong. The politicians who RAN it were wrong, and more than several were criminally wrong. But the war was right, and we should have, would have won had it not been the political correctness of pols scared of the reallll far left. It was Walter Cronkite who almost singlehandedly turned the Tet Victory into an *American Loss.* History is a b*tch. The truth doesn't change no matter how you spin it.
I don't think 7.5% of voters constitutes the average American. Even so, those ignorant enough to believe that the Vietnam war was immoral, stupid, and wasteful, believe it because of lies told by Kerry and others. Those who know the truth are not so easily fooled.
You don't know Jack, Jack! I guess that whole "great silent moral majority" thing slipped right past you, didn't it?!