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Self-Inflicted
Kerry’s response to the Swift veterans suggests he’s not too swift. So say the pros.
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“Kerry played the hero card so often he left himself open to these attacks,” added Carney.
Even one Democratic operative close to the Kerry campaign, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity, expressed frustration that Kerry’s signature issue has been tarnished. “We have spent months portraying this image. War hero, war hero, war hero. That’s all we’ve talked about. Now, whenever we bring it up, we’ll always be asked about the Swiftees,” the operative stated.
BUT DEZENHALL WARNS REPUBLICANS not to plan their family vacations to the national capital around a second Bush inaugural just yet. “Don’t forget that August is always scandal season. John Kennedy once said that no president survives his first August. By engaging this issue right now, there’s a good chance it will be out of the way before the real campaign starts,” he said.
We’ll have to wait and see. But on Tuesday, the Kerry campaign quietly conceded the Senator’s first Purple Heart may have resulted from an “unintentional, self-inflicted wound” just as his critics have charged. This, after being forced to admit that he hadn’t been in Cambodia during the Christmas of 1968 as he previously insisted.
Could we be a mere two layers deep into a very, very stinky onion?
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