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That's a matter of perception. I think you're hoping for a miracle that will set the Kerry campaign way, way, way back

Kerry is the one who needs a miracle to win. I don't believe the American people will elect the most liberal senator from the most liberal state to the Presidencey over an incumbent wartime President presiding over an inproving economy and an unemployment rate of 5.5%, better than Clinton had in 1996.

After all, do you really think John Kerry would have run for POTUS, if he thought his military and political record would have undermined his chances of getting elected? Personally, I think not so.

Absolutely. It is called ego. Kerry delights in rubbing his military service in people's faces because it can become a tar baby for those who are brave enough to question it. In the meantime, he gets a pass concerning his antiwar activities and dismal record as a legislator. His war record insulates him from criticism, garners sympathy when it is attacked, and becomes the focal point of his campaign defining the framework for the debate. It is a strategy that has worked for him over the past 25 years in public office. He used it to good effect to defeat Bill Weld.

Kerry's antiwar activities with the radical Vietnam Veterans Against the War, his association with people like Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark, and his meetings with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris and then advocating their negotiating posiitions before Congress are not the stuff of heroes or Presidential candidates.

If anyone is opening wounds from Vietnam, it is Kerry. He has brought Vietnam front and center. Now he wears his four plus months of service in-country as a badge of honor, but in 1971 Kerry made it a scarlett letter to be a Vietnam veteran. Most Americans under 45 don't even remember the Vietnam War. They are accepting the revisionist version of Kerry and the media.

Now, finally, the chickens are coming home to roost. Kerry is no longer running for office in Massachusetts without any real challenge from anyone except Weld in 1996. Now Kerry's record will be scrutiinized like never before and his military record will not intimidate men like the swift boat vets. Kerry will rue the day he decided to run for President. He will be personally destroyed once the truth is known.

I remember the Viet Nam WAR, and I remember Kerry & his buddies. I had to contend with their ilk now & then to get to work on the docks at Concord Naval Weapons Station, Port Chicago Waterfront.

I also remember the day bullet holes were found in the stack of one of the ships being loaded.

"Peaceniks" were against shooting at our foreign, Commie enemies, but seems they didn't have too many qualms about shooting at partially loaded ammunition ships in port! Fortunately, their skills were about what you might expect; and it was very long range.