[rwfromkansas]

Well, it is my firm hope that this is truly as explosive as Navy Vet thinks.

If it is, it WILL get play in the mainstream press. There is a lot of negativity here that they will cover up everything, but there comes a point that even the MSM will cover a story.

If it is as big as Navy Vet thinks, it will get covered because some stories are just too good and too huge to ignore no matter what your bias.

Heck, I know I would run with a story about Bush getting dishonorably discharged if that were found to be the case even though I know it would doom his candidacy. The lefty reporters are the same way. They only cover up so much before they have to cover the story.

[BigKahuna]

For a Navy officer, the only way a Bad Conduct or Dishonorable discharge is awarded is for the officer to have been convicted at a General Court Martial (which is convened by a Flag or General Officer, much like you saw in "A Few Good Men").

A conviction at a General Court Martial carries the weight of, and is in fact, a felony conviction. I doubt that Kerry was walking around with that until 1978 or 2001, as he would've been found out long before now.

Like I said, it's not inconceivable that he could've been awarded a General discharge, and that it was mailed to him upon fulfillment of his Individual Ready Reserve commitment, and he never got around to having it upgraded by the Board of Corrections of Naval Records (BCNR) until much later in his budding career.

[bootyist-monk]

If Kerry has a dishonorable discharge / court martial in his records, then my opinion is that he is truly and fully cooked. His problem will not be receiving it (most of his supporters know that he is an Anti-American Globalist and support him anyway). No, his problem will be that it completely undercuts his "Reporting for Duty... I'll be a better CIC" B.S. In addition to lying by ommission (even the MSM doesn't like that), how does he possibly argue that he can lead us at a time of war when the very military he hopes to command gave him the boot? This will be explosive if true. And from all that I've seen and heard on the issue, the only logical conclusion that can be reached from the timeline is that something went awry for Kerry during his time of service, and that he was able to paste over it later. We shall see...