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br> Knoxville, Tennessee /p>

As we'd say down South, John Kerry and his crew stepped in something that's a lot messier and offensive smelling than a rotten onion. They're now up to their knees in it and sinking fast, too.

Given it took three or so weeks for Kerry to admit -- of course, the mainstream media missed it -- that the Swiftees correctly criticized his first Purple Heart, it'll be about July 4th of next year, if that soon, when he finishes addressing all criticisms.

As to his response to the Swiftees, the expert who said it's been mismanaged and the other one who said the Swiftees could've been marginalized both missed the mark. Kerry and his campaign appear inept, ineffectual and weak not just because they are these things, but also this: They're trying to defend lies. They can't.

I laughed reading that the anonymous Democrat complained that Kerry's "signature" issue, which they'd spent months portraying as "war hero, war hero," has been compromised. Get serious. They didn't do their homework. They're getting served just desserts for promoting a candidate whose war experiences are fictional or semi-fictional and whose political baggage includes a 20-year lackluster Congressional career and no vision for America's future.

There's divine payback in this. The Dems were against Vietnam at its end. If memory serves, they advanced a candidate in 1992 that not only dodged the draft, but criticized America while on foreign soil. And their current candidate said Vietnam shouldn't be part of that presidential campaign.

p>Compared to them, the Keystone Cops look sophisticated, focused and expert. br> -- C. Kenna Amos Jr. br> Princeton, West Virginia /p>

I confess to personal delight at seeing John Kerry implode, unravel, wind down, and whatever else he is doing to himself. I think that it all boils down to two things: 1. As is now painfully no secret, Kerry has wrapped himself in the straitjacket of his Vietnam experiences -- the real and the unreal -- and, 2. He and his campaign / party have bought into their own propaganda that Bush and his people are all village idiots. In a word, they have completely misunderestimated their foe. They should have learned from their own failed attempt at a coup in Florida that they were not dealing with fools. The Democrat snobs can go on and on all they want about Bush's lack of gravitas and nuance, but he is far from the stupid, feckless man they try to make of him. Kerry, on the other hand, has nuanced himself right into a corner. It would be painful to watch if I were not enjoying it so much.

p>Incidentally, average people don't appreciate candidates or pitch men using words they have to look up in the dictionary. And really, nuance sounds an awful lot like nuisance -- and I'm beginning to feel that the Kerry campaign has become a public nuisance. br> --

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