[The South Texan]

Figures. The Rats are scum. No, scum has more value than the Rats!

[jwalsh07]

John Kerry served in Vietnam?

[areafiftyone]

Well Edwards didn't serve either. So he should have nothing to say about this.

[The G Man]

"Max Cleland, a true American hero"

More like a Darwin Award nominee if you ask me.

[My2Cents]

Why should the nation have to be dragged through Kerry's psychosis over his Vietnam experience?

[CaptainLou]

They are already attacking him over his daughter, who is his campaign chairman and is a lesbian, so I wouldn't put anything past the RATS.

[CaptainLou]

They are already attacking him over his daughter, who is his campaign chairman and is a lesbian, so I wouldn't put anything past the RATS.

[Billthedrill]

With that issue now on the side, an attack on Cheney would allow Democrats to again showcase Kerry's Vietnam service.

And the Republicans to showcase his subsequent betrayal of his brothers in arms. It's a loser, but I don't know a lot of Dems who realize it.

[dead]

If Vietnam is so important, why don't we just elect a Vietnamese guy?

I nominate Tuan N. Tran of Phoik Bu.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cheney was 18 in 1959. We all remember the anti-war rallies when Ike was in the White House, don't we ?

[mystery-ak]

Kerry has a new ad out...all about his service in VN...Fox showed a small clip but broke away for the President's address....from what I saw, it's truly sickening.

[kahoutek]

"a very difficult and painful period in our nation's history"

Note to Kerry:

If it was so G******n difficult and painful, why do you keep flaunting your time there?

More liberal a**holery.

[Bean Counter]

I say, go ahead and let them try to attack Cheney on his "Service".

Frankly, he was one of the best SECDEFs to ever serve, and that trumps Kerry on anything that he ever did in Vietnam.

[onedoug]

Everything about Kerry is bogus, including his so-called "service" in Vietnam.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In effect Kerry uses his medals to smear Republicans.

In the 1970s he smeared everyone who believed in the defense of liberty but who didn't fight in Vietnam, for whatever reason--up to and including WWII Navy veterans like Richard Nixon. And he is smearing George Bush now.

Essentially his position has been that he rejected any inference that America and its Constituiton were morally superior to tyrannical Communist regimes--and that because of his medals no one had a right to question his position with the theoretical exception of people who had been killed in Vietnam.

Mr. Bush should simply tell Senator Kerry that as commander-in-chief he had on many occasions conducted awards ceremonies to congratulate and thank servicemen for gallantry in action--but he never once supposed that in doing so he had given that man a lifetime immunity from disagreement if he should at any subsequent occasion run for political office.

[onyx]

Kerry's elections and re-elections to public office in Massachusetts impresses me about as much as Ted Kennedy's and Barney Frank's re-elections in same democrat infested state.

Those persons elected in Massachusettes will be rejected in several of the other 49 states.

[mass55th]

Dick Cheney was born in 1941. My brother was born in 1944. When my brother was in 'Nam '66-67, he was the oldest (23) guy in his platoon. If he was the oldest during that time period, Dick Cheney would have been considered a senior citizen. And more than likely, even if he had attempted to enlist, it's more than likely he would have been rejected for medical reasons. The Dems have nothing here.

[JohnBovenmyer]

This campaign is going through its "Battle of the Bilge" phase. The Rats are surging forward, firing all the dirt they've stored up. Like the better known BotB this is a sign of desparation. Their improving polling numbers are tempoary, until Bush goes back on the offensive. The only problem is Bush's tendency to let the 'Montgomery" tactical wing of the party (the don't offend anyone RINOs) lead the counterattacks rather than the "Patton" (conservative) wing.

[Reagan Man]

This endless rhetoric splashing SenKerry's Vietnam record around at every opportunity, has moved from the status of positive attribute and is beginning to wear very thin with most veterans I talk to. It's entering a phase of political propaganda and that won't help Kerry's campaign in the long run. It's quite obvious Kerry is attempting to innoculate himself from any criticism the Bush campaign may decide to use against him. Without the issue of Kerry's Vietnam war record, the Senator has little left of a positive nature that appeals to mainstream America. What's he gonna do for the next 8 months? LOL

[cyncooper]

In a letter sent to the White House late Saturday, Kerry wrote,

As Bill Krystol pointed out on Sunday, the day President Bush's dog dies Kerry sends this letter.

It seems to sum up Kerry nicely, that he would do such a thing timed in such a way.