That will defintely leave a mark.
The Siwft Boat Veterans are going to chisel away at Kerry as well. ANY publicity on that topic will be bad for Kerry. No way he can tout his service record as a positive and turn around and attack other veterans and it result anything but bad for Kerry.
McCain has denounced the ad, Bushies have distanced themselves from it, and the media is reporting that none of those men actually served on the boat with Kerry. But none of that matters, as with Willie Horton, when an issue is TRUE it will have an impact. And the Swift Boat ad campaign will have an impact. It doesn't even have to air on TV. People across the land are emailing it to their friends and colleagues and one can almost hear the collective gasp as America wakes up to the fraud that is John Forbes Kerry.