In an earlier post, I was sincerely and most conscientiously attempting to avoid the overtly political, and the consequences of/responses to that post showed most clearly my failure to do so. In this post, therefore, I am most sincerely and most conscientiously attempting to speak directly of the political and give most concretely my individual opinion.
Here it is: What are the Kerry campaign, the Democrats, and their allies thinking?
Kerry and Co. got schlocked by the anti-Kerry Swift Boat 527 in July and August, despite Kerry's almost obsessive focus on his military war record, which was most vividly on display at the DNC in June. [Bush had been getting his own schellacking from all the anti-Bush/Democratic 527s like MoveOn.org, the Media Fund (Harold Ickes' group), America Coming Together (the Rosenthal-led Soros-Lewis group).] Almost every pundit and Democratic strategist and their dog told Kerry to get the frick-frack away from Vietnam. Get back to the issues of the economy, health care, and Social Security. Indeed, there was that much-touted leak of the 90-minute Clinton-Kerry phone call giving essentially the same advice.
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