The whole National Guard AWOL BS was a designed play trying to get someone on the Republican side to say "but this was 30 years ago, it's not fair to bring up something 30 years ago!" Then the dims and their presstitute allies will refuse to touch the Kerry treason because "well, if we can't go after Bush for his being AWOL 30 years ago then we sure can't go after a real war hero for things he said 30 years ago!" So far it's not working. The White House didn't cooperate and go the "move on" route. They dealt with each new accusation deliberately, calmly and reasonably. The press whores tried to twist that into a failure on the White House's part. All but the most fanatic Bush haters uttered a collective "what the John F'n Kerry are you talking about?"
Harold Ford Jr., a Democrat Congressman from my area (though not my congress critter) who I actually like kind of tipped this plan on one of the morning news shows (maybe Fox and Friends?) when Kerry's anti-American record came up in passing. He immediately jumped on the attack and said "well, if you bring up John Kerry's past we'll bring up George Bush going AWOL fromt he Guard. I don't want to do that so let's just not talk about John Kerry's past." As if the Democrats haven't been pushing this every time they open their mouths!
This is one we DON'T want being played out now. We want Kerry to be the nominee. Karl Rove is saving this for after the dims convention, when they're committed to Kerry and can't back down or pull a Torriccelli and swap in someone without the baggage. Edwards is a cipher without a paper trail. He can claim any position on any issue and there's almost no way to prove him wrong. He's much more photogenic than Kerry and has the practiced skills of a trial lawyer. Kerry talks like a pull string doll on Qualudes. After Rove is done with him he won't even win Massachussettes.
We need to catalog this stuff and VERIFY IT so that there's no possible way that the dims can discredit anything that comes up. I'm almost convinced that the Kerry/Fonda fake photo flap was perpretated by the dims intentionally to try to blunt the real picture. I know that it appears the photoshop work may have come from someone on our side, but I'm willing to bet that it was circulated to the news media by the dims. They knew it was a paste up and they used that to cover up the real picture that was already out there. We have to be careful not to make that mistake again.
Trust buy verify. And don't spread stuff we can't prove.