Posted on 11/21/2007 12:06:52 AM PST by Phil Harmonic
For Kerry, the public showdown with Pickens represents not only a belated engagement with old antagonists, but also an early strike against a Democratic primary opponent who signaled Monday that he welcomes the scrutiny of Kerry's military record initiated by the Swift Boat ad campaign in 2004.
"It goes to his credibility," said Ed O'Reilly, a Gloucester lawyer mounting a challenge to Kerry in the Democratic primary. "It needs to be cleared up."
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As it stands, the man most welcoming of the return to the conflicts of 2004 is O'Reilly, who is attacking Kerry as not opposing the Iraq war strongly enough and says that the issues raised by the Swift Boat ads reflect on Kerry's character.
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Agree with the Dishonorable discharge comment. This is strongly supported by rewritten medal citations by subsequent SECNAV’s. This just does not happen without some significant string pulling...
Looks like CHECKMATE for Kerry.
Teresa let him try that once, but she shrieked in horror upon viewing the result:
T Boon will keep the pressure on J Fraud till he puts up or shuts up....we have the answer about his Viet War record, it is false. Why else would he not release them to avoid the butt kicking from teh Swifties that may have cost him the Presidency...
But what do you expect from disordered minds? The media and Democrats are mindless enough to continue to use the phrase "McCarthyism" incorrectly. McCarthy was right about everything he said about communists. The commies are still here, but in larger numbers. McCarthy was not paranoid; we were victims of the vast left wind conspiracy that has been going on for fifty years.
Well. there's the key question isn't it? Did Jimmy Carter upgrade traitor Kerry's discharge or not?
No biggie. Ketchup boy will treat this like a house cat that knocks over a potted plant, then walks away as if nothing happened.....
He's got to be a real headcase!!!
kerry is proving what an idiot he is again. He should know better than to challenge T Boone whom I’m sure did his homework before offering the bait to the fool.
I wonder how he will try and lie his way out of the corner he has painted himself in this time.
May Kerry(POS) rot in Hell! He is a proven Liar and Traitor!
It’s over, John. Go back home to Bah-stun and cry to Ter-raeza about it.
The "TRUTH" can be a vicious thing to a liar.
You think Jon Carry just sounds pompous when he speaks. Nooooo! He also writes like a pompous *ss, just read the following in John Kerry's voice: ""I am prepared to prove the lie and marshal all the evidence, the question is whether you are prepared to fulfill your obligation," Kerry wrote."
To have this notoriously thin-skinned poseur crop up again in the election news cycle is SUCH a gift for the GOP! And the fact that he claims to have released his military records (when he did NO such thing) just makes the issue that much more delicious.
Has there been a Dem candidate in the last 8 years who was NOT an embarassment to the nation? I will give Lieberman a pass since it appears that he has come to his senses on the issue of the WOT, and had to run as an Independent when the Defeatocrats kicked him out of the party at the primary.
Finally, someone who remembers what happened.
You nailed it. - Kerry was investigated for his unlawful activities by the Senate.
The armed forces have longer teeth in these matters and discharged him.
Kerry can end everything 100% and become a national hero again overnight, for standing up and defeating the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, simply by the one act of releasing his records, but strangely - for an innocent man - he does not.
give it up john
Instead of swift boating maybe Kerry will now start to claim he’ been T-Booned...
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