Captain Ed is on fire this morning, over at Captain's Quarters. Cooly, clearly, and logically, he lays out the stupidity with which the Kerry campaign is handling the Swiftvets.

...the Kerry campaign enlisted the hometown Boston Globe to write an editorial denouncing the Swiftvets. The paper, a subsidiary of the New York Times, gladly did so and in the process noted that WWII war hero and former Senator Robert Dole was once given the Purple Heart for a "leg scratch". Dole, whose reputation for political unpleasantness undid more than one bid for the Presidency, came out swinging yesterday —— although not with the arm that was rendered useless in his wartime service to his country, a nuance that the Globe and the Kerry campaign were apparently too stupid to consider

But at the same time, Bob Dole, the Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and a World War II veteran, called on Mr. Kerry to apologize to Vietnam veterans in a television interview on CNN. He appeared to get behind some of the accusations raised by the group, when its most serious contentions have been undermined by official records and conflicting accounts.

The longer it goes on, the more incompetent Kerry looks as a strategist. The thought of him handling geostrategy gets more and more ludicrous.

Posted by Thomas   8 23 04