Manhattanite:
I think Kerry might just have lost enough votes among veterans, the current military and their immediate families as a result of the Swiftees campaign to decide this election. Why? Because these votes aren’t coming back, there simply isn’t any way for Kerry to get them back.
I agree with you that many non-veteran voters may be turned off by the Swiftees campaign, but not the vets and the serving military, and I’m sure they’re filling their friends and families in on why. That’s why the polls among vets showed such a dramatic swing away from Kerry, in such a short period of time. I’d love to see a poll right now involving current service personnel.
The reason for this should be obvious; Unlike non-military-savvy voters, the vets have the background to see through Kerry’s misrepresentation of his service record. They don’t buy his explanations, and I suspect the pathetic defence lawyer tactics employed by the MSM on Kerry’s behalf have only confirmed for the vets and the current service members that Kerry is being dishonest.
Who do you think a vet who has seen combat is going to believe, when Kerry says he won the Bronze Star for pulling a man from the water under heavy fire, in a canal 75 meters wide, yet the best his MSM backers can come up with is 3 bullet holes in one of the five boats? No gunshot wounds to anyone, etc, with 4 of the 5 boats (Kerry’s was scooting miles down the river) dead in the water. Do you think the vets don’t smell a rat when they read Kerry’s account that his boat was allegedly heavily damaged (supposedly from the mine), yet it was his boat, not the other undamaged boats, that towed the heavily damaged 3 boat back to base?
Sadly for Kerry, the Purple Hearts threads that are now out there are even more damaging among vets than the valour medals controversy. How do you boast on the campaign trail that you ” left no man behind,” when you left YOUR ENTIRE UNIT BEHIND 8 MONTHS EARLY?”
In an election this close thus far, Kerry has permanently lost a constituency that is large enough to doom his chances
