Reply #157: Fair enough.

[mattclearing]

All I'm saying is, whether or not he lost is under dispute, and I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for what he did.

Maybe if he apologized to those people for hurting their feelings, he might have done better, but our campaigns don't believe in apologies to anyone ever.

Even so, do we really need the votes of people who are more concerned that Kerry called them war criminals than the fact that they committed war crimes? My guess is no.

And if Kerry had stood on principle and told those people to go fuck themselves if they want to kill Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians with impunity because they were just following orders and not get called on it, he might have gotten more respect. He also might have gone down like McGovern, but what can you do?