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Will we see it again? Absolutely. Will it work? I think less than last time.
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Do we really know that "Swift-Boating ... worked? Wasn't the real problem that Kerry decided to run on a SINGLE platform that meant NOTHING to the american voters? After all, does this country treat its (truly) heroic politicians well?
Kerry decided that he could use a sketchy story about being a war hero to
walk into the White House as opposed to let his 20+ years in the Senate stand for something. The reason why Kerry could not beat a badly bruised and unpopular Republican incumbent was he was even worse ... a politician who stood for nothing for decades and whose only "positive" amounted to pilot a boat under fire. And, on top ot it, that story was as valiant as the last Democrat President escapist dalliances in Europe or his wife's running for her life in Bosnia. A whole lot about nothing.
The Swift Boat stories should have meant nothing had the patrician Kerry been able to show a record of achievement worthy of the presidency. And thinking that he almost pulled it off speaks volume about the deep bias of the US voters.