“And you guys, you formerly cynical guys who now worship the incompetent Bush simply because you were told to do so, you’re only making it easier for the Kerry people to win.”

Blair, too drunk to follow the entire convoluted sentence, caught on at the end and whimpered, “How so?”

“Look at you people with this Vietnam boat nonsense. Every day, you’re pounding home the fact that Kerry fought in Vietnam. You jackasses started this stuff so early – with the “Oh he protested the war” and the Jane Fonda photoshops – that the Kerry people turned the whole Democratic convention into a celebration of the Vietnam War. Nobody even remembers being against Vietnam anymore. The next Vietnam movie will be a buddy comedy starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and all they’re going to do is kill Charlie and win medals and dance with beautiful girls. It’ll make $300 million on the opening weekend. They’re going to tear down that bummer memorial in Washington and put up a 1,000-foot statue of a smiling American soldier proudly standing on a stack of golden skulls. You morons have made Vietnam the Democrats’ favorite memory and greatest victory. Then you scream hooray when a gang of addled old Nixon bagmen show up in a teevee commercial to bitch about Kerry fighting in Vietnam , and once again the normal people with lives only remember, again, that Kerry fought in Vietnam and Bush didn’t.”

“But,” Tim sputtered, “Kerry clearly claimed he was in Cambodia several days before he was in Cambodia. It was seared–”

“Stop that,” I said, poking his neck with the corkscrew worm. “Listen to yourself. What are you doing, again? That’s right, you’re reminding people that the other guy fought in Vietnam. Have you become so brain dead that you think this helps your girly boy Bush? Do you honestly believe the coward boy can beat the War Monster?”

Blair tried to shake the confusion from his head. Then his eyes brightened for a moment and he said, “Four months! Kerry was only in Vietnam for four months!”

“See? You did it again. You people can’t stop reminding everybody that Kerry was in Vietnam, taking lives like your boy eats cookies. Killing people, saving people, holding Life & Death in his hands like a savage gift. He kills the Viet Cong or anybody else he chooses, he saves a U.S. sailor who fell out of the boat, he walks the halls of the Senate deciding who he’ll kill or who he’ll save (http://timblair.spleenville.com/). In Vietnam, Kerry is a death’s head of gruesome power, while your Bush hides in Alabama, a scared little girl. And what did little Bush do in Texas?”

http://kenlayne.com/2004/08/god-of-war-death-madness.html

The GOP is making a big mistake getting into bed w/ the SBVFT

First off, I think I have been pretty reasonable on this whole Swift Boat thing.

Second, I don’t that the fact Kerry served in Viet Nam is some secret that the Reps are bringing up. Rather, Kerry is basing his whole campaign on it.

3) I have noted on multiple occassions that going after the medals is foolish, and I don’t think I have once blogged on the Cambodia issue.

4) I think that Kerry has a real problem that will manifest with swing voters in trying to square the circle of the war hero image he has tried to build juxtaposed with what he said as a war protester. I have argued this way back during the primaries, in fact

5) AsI noted in another post earlier today, Kerry in Viet Nam v. Bush in the Air National Guard is a false dichotomy, and not the one the Kerry campaign is pursuing: Kerry has actively argued that his Viet Nam service would make him a better Commander-in-Chief than Bush. As such, Kerry has made this race Viet Nam Kerry v. President Bush.

6) I continue to ask: where is the Senator’s Senate career?

However, I would note, that a full term as President trumps a light Senate career if all we are doing is comparing resumes.

Clearly, you think that Bush’s four years aren’t to your satisfaction, which is your right.