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August 24, 2004

Steyn Speaks
Posted by Dale Franks

Mark Steyn writes that, as campaign strategies go, there have been many better ones than John Kerry's idea of touting his four months of service in a war he's primarily known for opposing. It doesn't seem to have helped him with the military vote.

If Vietnam vets loathe him, World War Two vets seem to think he's a buffoon. Short of reversing over the last 128-year-old Spanish-American War veteran in the retirement home parking lot, it's hard to see how Kerry could more comprehensively diminish his military support.

Still, he's doing his best. After going around huffing and a-puffing that, if Bush wanted a debate about Vietnam, "Here is my answer: BRING. IT. ON," he's now gone to ground and is demanding Bush call it off. Meanwhile, his lawyers are threatening suits and the campaign's complained to the Federal Election Commission to get the Swift vets taken off air.

His hagiographer Douglas Brinkley, after an intriguing interview with the Telegraph's David Rennie, seems to have entered the witness protection programme. If this campaign were any more inept, Michael Moore would be making a documentary claiming Kerry's a Republican plant secretly controlled by Karl Rove and the House of Saud.

Did Kerry honestly think that touting his war record wasn't just asking for the current spate of attacks? What was he thinking?

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