I guess the billionaire consort/longtime senator has been surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for or so long that he expected us to believe his press releases, too?
Kerry has been running successfully as a war hero ever since his election to the Senate in 1984. It is his MO. He has intimidated his opponents using his military record as a decorated war hero. No one has ever questioned him on it until the SBVFT challenged him. If Ohio had gone the other way, Kerry would be President despite the fact that he refused to sign an SF 180. I fault the MSM and the Bush campaign for not making it more of an issue.
Because guys like Kerry expects the MSM to support them regardless of their behavior. And they do (look under Willie Clinton).
Wouldn't it be poetic justice if we discovered that while the MSM was trying to dream up stories about Bush's "desertion" Kerry had in fact been running on a less than honorable discharge. That would make his heroics as bogus as his supposed character.