Ann is right. I've never seen the democrats so upset. Heads exploding all over! Al Hunt, Susan Estrich, Donna Brazille, Lanny Davis, and today, Admiral Crowe while debating with John O'Neill on the Wolf Blitzer show. They've lost their cool totally, reduced to insults. All they can do is hurl insults and try to talk over O'Neill so he can't be heard.
They've introduced another "spinner". A black guy, last name Johnson, was at bat on several shows today, hired to do battle with the swifties on television. Like Crowe being brought onboard to deal with this problem, he can only mouth what the campaign has directed him to say, no facts, nothing in rebuttal, just attacks to destroy the credibility of these veterans.
How did O'Neill do on Wolf? Did Crowe's sputtering make him look even better?
That's why "Christmas in Cambodia" is so powerful. If one side of a debate goes berserk the way the Democrats did, and they are really good at it, they might con you into thinking it's righteous indignation. But there's also this nagging fear that they doth protest too much.
But then Kerry gets caught in an unambiguous lie. Oh, the Dems are spinning around it, but they are fooling no one now. The average Joe who didn't know what to think is now thinking, "So... Kerry is a liar. And the Swift Vets were right about at least one thing. Maybe we need to go back and take another look at this."
Kerry is toast.
Thanks for the corroboration on the Humphrey vote. I've seen Jeh Johnson too. He's a Kerry advisor (legal I'm sure).
One lie he told last night on Hannity & Crud was that Kerry had multiple options available to him after Yale graduation and chose to volunteer for Nam. Wrong, of course, Kerry asked his draft board for permission to go to Paris after Yale for a year to go to school some more. Draft board said NO. sKerry joined the Navy, Swift Boats specifically because at that time they were just doing primarlily coastal patrol and not seeing combat action.
That useage of the Swift Boats changed about the time Kerry was assigned to them I believe.
Johnson just spewing lies. I want to see evidence now of this covert CIA mission activity that lead Kerry to Cambodia like his Kamp is now claiming. There ought to be records or his CO's would definitely know if he was ordered to work with the Seals or CIA or in Cambodia or any number of other fabrications he's come up with.
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