Reply #136: Kerry DID what you suggest and his rallies were

[karynnj]

great - but you only saw them on CSPAN. As to the SBVT, Kerry and his team fought back and proved that there were many many PROVABLE lies in the SBVT stuff, but the media helped the SBVT. They ignored the fact that ALL the navy records backed Kerry (he had 140 pages of records on his web site) - his record was not just clean, but extraordinary with glowing reports even from some of the SBVT.

Why didn't you see this? Because the media prefer to have cute little shows with a liar spreading a lie and a Kerry surrogate denying it - and both were treated with equal respect. (contrast how the Rather documents not being provably authentic meant the entire story - even unrelated parts- died).

Here's a resource of what Kerry did:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x70627

Consider also, that when McCain was hit with less, he got immediate support from Kerry (and the other Senate vets who Kerry pushed to support him against the attack) and some VVA people (old Kerry friends), but he still blew up and his campaign imploded. Kerry kept his temper, dignity and integrity - by the election few people voted against Kerry because of the lies.

Since then Kerry has aggressively supported people like Murtha who were attacked. THe problem was that many Democrats failed to protect Kerry. Hackett clearly stood up to far less and fell apart.