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Originally posted by bilmore
Well, let's be clear here. I do think that he made the choice to be a single-issue persona, and, to that extent, yeah, I do think he deserves what happens when your single issue suddenly starts to tilt.
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He's no single-issue persona. You know better than that.
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If you mean, though, that I think he deserves to be smeared, not so fast. I don't. If the Swifties stuff turns out to be false, then he certainly did nothing to deserve the lies.
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C'mon. That was Brit Hume's dodge last week, and it's not credible. By any reasonable measure, the Swifties have been discredited. Which they knew would happen. The point was not to find the truth, it was to smear Kerry to take him down. Hell, they're not even pissed off at him over what happened in Vietnam -- it's what he did when he got back that bugs them.
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But we do know, now, that at least the Cambodia-related stuff was true. We know that he used that story several times as a selling point for various political ends, and we know that he has admitted that it wasn't true. I do think he deserves some opprobrium for lying to serve his political ends.
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No. We know he was near Cambodia -- and possibly in it -- on Christmas Eve, and that he was in Cambodia in the next few months. And the date on which he was there was of rhetorical significance only to what he was saying.
