Yeah, you're right. The smears and blacklisting tactics coming from the Kerry campaign and the MSM were the lowest I've seen in my lifetime. Never again will Kerry or any Dem. for that matter, be able to hurl the 'mcarthyism' label at anyone again. If they do try, they will be laughed off and branded as the hypocrites they are.
I just read an article on Drudge from the Boston Globe's staff about the presidential campaign. They mostly talked about Kerry's campaign, but they also talked about Bush's.
Surprisingly, they talked quite a bit about the SWifties. They acknowledged how O'Neill and the Swifties hurt Kerry, but they still portrayed the allegations by them and in their books as falsehoods. Even after all this, they (MSM) won't tell the truth about Kerry's lies about Vietnam. Oh, and at one point in the story, they said that Kerry was hard of hearing because of low gunfire in Vietnam!!!!!!!My husband was there for a year, shooting a gun and has NO problem with his hearing!!!