Maybe, but just maybe Danny boy got them from a high placed DNC source and didn't vet them at all. Old Media is arrogant...they sneer at new media. I'm sure it never crossed Danny's mind that new media would dare to contradict him...Do you know who he is (sarcasm)? Maybe he did know they were forgeries, but figured no one would question him. The media got away with this stuff for many years...I don't think they understand the power of the blogs yet.
I think you are spot on.
Arrogance ala Kerry, and the like, will sink them every time.
I think this is EXACTLY what happened.
In fact, who is the expert on navy forgeries? Who has posted on their web site a document signed by John Lehman in which Mr. Lehman exudes exuberant praise for that someone even though John Lehman denies any knowledge of every seeing or signing that thing?
I think someone from the Kerry campaign managed to get that Killian document to ole Dan and he was so excited he went with it.
Everything that campaign has done has backfired and for no other reason than the words of Abraham Lincoln:
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
The Dems are at the point that all of the people ain't getting fooled all of the time. Took a while as they've been doing it for years. But there's the Internet, Bloggers, forums such as Free Republic and hey....ALL of the people finally have some input.