re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember how Senator Kerry’s Vietnam service record was turned even against him by the Swift Boaters while Bush’s draft-dodging stint with the Air National Guard was overlooked.

I wonder how much the swift boat stuff really moved the needle in 2004. I suspect the only people who believed it were those prone to believe it (read: Republicans who didn’t like Kerry for the sole fact that he was and is a Democrat).

I don’t think attacks on one’s service (or lack there of) really moves the dial anymore. It didn’t hurt Clinton in 1992 or 1996 when he was running against WWII veterans, one of whom was severely injured in the war. Nor did it help McCain in either 2000 or 2008.