The Washington Monthly

Kevin at the Political Animal points out that the Bush people might want to ask the Swift Boat Morons for Trooth (as Fafblog put it) to shut the #$%& up. Shut the #$%* up. After all, the more time we spend looking at Kerry's record from the 1970s, it become more and more relevant to ask where was George? Do the American people really prefer a guy who pulled strings to get into the guard and then didn't even fulfill that duty while on the other hand a young man of priviledge volunteers for service, volunteers for dangerous duty and then has the gall to speak out against the war?

I, for one, just don't get it. Paint Kerry as negative as you like for speaking out against the war, say that his purple hearts were for superficial wounds--that other people didn't get medals for the same kind or even better acts of valor--say it all. How is that still worse than a guy who cares so much about his country he won't even fulfill his Guard duty?