What "Veterans for Kerry" are those?

I don't see many pro-Kerry Vets anymore, not that I ever saw many. Maybe folks who enlisted to get college money and were pissed that they actually had to salute and serve, but I never saw a whole lot of true military professionals in Kerry's camp. And much less these days, the Swift Vets are taking their toll not only on Kerry's 'Band of Brothers' nonsense, but also on his Vet supporters in general, such that they were.

Real Veterans are most definately NOT for Kerry, as evidenced by his campaign stop in Racine, WV. I drove past this campaign stop on my way home from a real veteran's house, my father's, where I was treated to a most decidedly anti-Kerry weekend. Other than a few cheaply lettered signs and about a dozen obvious Veterans (most of whom looked to be in their twenties, hmmm), I saw more anti-Kerry signs than favorable ones. I saw two signs mentioning the Swift Vets - both demanded that Kerry sign his Form 180: "Kerry Lies: Sign the Form 180 NOW!

This 'rally' seemed very pathetic to me, considering that Bush seems to draw 10k even when visiting towns that only have 16k people all-together. There couldn't have been more than 500 people, total (including the anti-Kerry protesters). The liberal press won't mention it very much, but Kerry is clearly only drawing the 10% on the looney-left these days - this was very clear from the tie-dyed, liberal/socialist, and 'artsy' crowd I saw. The anti-Kerry folks were wearing jeans, t-shirts, and baseball caps, very distiguishable from the earth-toned, J. Crew/dead-head bedecked Birkenstock crowd, complete with yuppie-larva in their Landcruiser-sized baby strollers. (Gotta give props to my little sister for the "yuppie-larva" label, she coined it about 4 years ago...:>)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040907-122637-3858r.htm

Kerry is finally obeying his handlers and attempting to stay off the national security and Vietnam issues - the Swift Boat Vets need a new hard-hitting ad to bring the issue back to the forefront. Bush needs to keep hammering on Kerry's national security abdication policies, Bush can't lose on that issue. The Democrats will try to repeat Clinton's "It's the Economy, Stupid" arrogance they used before, but American's won't buy it this time. The media doesn't have us on lockdown anymore, so this attempt to run away from our nation's security in a time of war won't fly - the left-media will only damage themselves further in Kerry's hopeless demise.

If I could send a message to Hanoi John and his ambulance chaser, it would be: "You have to be alive to have a job and spend money you morons, and we prefer a president who will kill those first who would kill us. We don't want a president who will run away to hide behind the EU and the UN until it's safe. We had enough of Kerry's 'heroism and leadership' during and especially after Vietnam, and all through his so-called Senate career."

Adios MF,

Doug