Absolutely. This is a very smart idea. To me, it's a no-brainer -- completely a political plus for us. Kudos to Blackwell for thinking of it, or making it happen anyway.
Dole gets minus points, though, for stepping on his own excellent comments by appearing to "apologize" for them.
The Senate Club really takes the starch out of a guy.
You'd think a man with a genuine Purple Heart would have more guts than to back off a perfectly reasonable comment just because Kerry used to serve with him in the Senate.
I'm not sure that Dole's "apology" is any more true than the "fact" that the Swifties have "been discredited and contradicted by military records".
I heard Dole on talk radio the next day and he was absolutely unapologetic.
I've never seen the press report more what they WANT the story to be, rather than what it actually is. Other than the entire Clinton Administration.