[A Real Dan Fan... NOT]

I would tend not to believe this as it comes from the RNC. It is too much in their interests.
Please RNC and DNC. STOP presuming that all of us are idiots. It is starting to get irritating.

[Gunder]

Welcome to FR.

[JusticeTalion]

I am pretty sure it is a real enough sentiment. I watched his speech the other day and, I swear, within ten minutes I was no longer coherently following what he was saying. I was totally zoned out listening to "As I said in my speech yesterday..." and wondering just how many times he could actually say that. I can understand referencing a speech from before but after a while I felt like yelling at my TV telling him to just STFU! I switched over to the Physics channel just so I could watch something I truly understood.

God bless our troops wherever they may be.

[RGSpincich]

Read the small print. It came from the Washington Post.

(Hanna Rosin, "The Kerry Camp, Cautiously Giddy," The Washington Post, 9/22/04)

[bastantebueno55]

<> It looks to me like the original source is the WaPo, and the RNC is just doing a wider release of this info.

[Chief_Illinewek]

Come on, Dan. All my Dim friends share the same sentiment: Lurch needs to STFU about Vietnam because it doesn't matter in 2004, and compared to other historical candidates with a military background what he did isn't that special - certainly not enough to win him a presidential election in and of itself. And ranting about what Bush and Cheney did in the 70s in response to their criticism of the 2004 version of Lurch isn't winning any votes. It isn't that surprising that a 'rat could be quoted by a newspaper saying such a thing.