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August 16, 2004
Swift Boat Veterans
Wow, some people are all worked up about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Democrats claim that they are a nothing but a Republican hit squad.
Some Democrats seem to think that really rich Republicans are giving the Swifties big bucks for more advertisments that will hurt poor Kerry.
If that was true, don't you think that they would have generated more than $400,000 in donations from all those rich Republicans?
Instead, this is turning into a grass roots thing - $400,000 of new donations from 8,000 people.
That averages out to $50 a donation. (The amount I donated, by the way)
Roy F. Hoffman, a retired admiral and chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated an additional $400,000 from 8,000 donors around the country. "We are putting together the second ad," said Hoffman, 78, of Richmond, Va. As a Navy captain in 1968 and 1969, Hoffman commanded a unit of 1,650 sailors that included Kerry as a lieutenant. Hoffman said the unit, known as Task Force 115, included about 16 swift boats and their crews, which patrolled the delta looking for Viet Cong and other enemy fighters.
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Posted by Beth at August 16, 2004 6:12 AM
Comments
It has been my experience that the vast majority of military folks place their sense of honor above their political compass.
Posted by: Sgt Hook at August 16, 2004 9:20 AM
It's like a cheating spouse accusing their counterpart of infidelity. The Dems are financing media attacks via Air America - and others, I'm sure...[I'm really not paying attention] so they naturally assume Republicans are doing the same; when in fact nothing could be further from the truth in this case.
Their mindset is disturbing, to say the least.
Posted by: pam at August 16, 2004 10:07 AM
Sgt. Hook and Pam -
I totally agree. There are several of the Swift Boat Vets who are Democrats, and I have read about others who support 3rd party candidates, and they are all furious about the lies that Kerry is getting away with.
Of course, the biggest lies are the completely unsubstantiated accusations of war atrocities that Kerry accussed all Vietnam Vets of.
Posted by: Beth Donovan at August 16, 2004 10:12 AM
Wow, I never thought about the "cheating spouse" theory. How "spot on"!!
Posted by: Tammi at August 16, 2004 5:16 PM
Kerry Lied,, ooops, can I say that? He is just to damn ugly to be president and so is his wife and daughters.
Posted by: James Old Guy at August 17, 2004 12:45 PM
Oh, James, ugly isn't a reason to vote against someone! Haughty, arrogant and delusional IS a reason to vote against Kerry!!
Posted by: beth at August 17, 2004 12:48 PM