Reply #161: Spot on. [View All]

[bunkerbuster1]

In many ways, the 2004 election was about Vietnam.

I recently read a chilling LTTE in my local hillbilly rag from a pig who acknowledged that Kerry's loss was "sweet revenge" for all those years of having to deal with all those uppity war protesters past and present.

I think we've underestimated just how important a factor this really was. I don't say that to dump on Kerry AT ALL--I still feel he was the right man to nominate of those who were running. But we were, collectively, naive about just how vocipherous the military brass would be about this uppity war protester. That's all they saw in Kerry--he was frozen in time, 1971, and this would not be allowed to stand.

I recall sometime in late spring, encountering a diehard Bushbot online claming that he'd heard rumbings from some of his VFW buds that there'd be information out that'd destroy Kerry. He was confident of this. I actually ridiculed him by saying it was an "empty threat."

I was so very wrong, and I wish we could've headed that off at the pass.

Not sure what we can learn by it--we don't get a do-over to fight the last battle, alas.