re: #86 KGxvi
While I agree they can manufacture outrage, I don’t know that the Swift Boat stuff hurt Kerry as much as the stuff like “I voted for it before I voted against it”. I say this as someone who was much closer to the GOP in 2004 than I am now.
That did hurt him and I liked Kerry more than most. Edwards was a bad VP pick too. Biden and Kaine were better imo.