[sirchtruth]

He lost as much due to his character as to anything else, and that's why what the Swiftboat vets said mattered.

I have to say that I wasn't a big SBV enthusiest, but the book and their points did lead to people considering Kerry's character.

I truly did not think the points they made would matter, but obviously they did in retrospect...BUT it was only because Kerry made VN an issue!

[elhombrelibre]

The biggest difference, as I see it, is that Kerry's Vietnam service was one period in the life Kerry when his monopoly on his myths was busted by men who wouldn't back down and an overwhelming number of them who knew he was lying. Ann Coulter was pointing out last night that there may have been a need for a group of Altar Boys for Truth as well since Kerry began to peddle the story that he was a Saint. In all of his life, Kerry was an empty suit. In his time in congress, there was no there there. Yet the MSM treated him as if he'd been a player or a leader. JFK is like the Kennedys in that he had enough money to hire eggheads eager to cash in creating the myth of Kerry. The Swiftboat Vets sunk his ship because they could easily prove Kerry was full of it and had betrayed his band of brothers for his budding political career and lifelong ambition. In addition, Kerry was full of contradictions on every issue he ever held. Common sense told everyone he was a man without principle or conviction, the same flaws the Swiftboat Vets had seen in Vietnam.