Reply #18: No, two wrongs don't make a right

[karynnj]

I would rather be with Kerry, who consistently says that it is not right - when speaking of McCain, Cleland, or Petraeus. He also took a related position when in a beautiful, heart felt speech he begged the 1992 candidates not to re-open the wounds of Vietnam for political gain. Here, he used his credibility to ask his friend, Senator Kerrey, not to attack people, who out of conscience did not serve in a war they didn't support.

We lose our moral high ground in saying swiftboating is wrong when we allow snarky, juvenile attacks on career military people. Kerry in countering a McCain statement on the Ed Shultz show that attempted to blame Casey and Rumsfeld for bad policy, pointed out that McCain praised Bush's abilities as CIC and the generals do not get to have their own policies. The ad itself makes many good points, but they are lost because of the attention given to name calling, which will not move people in the middle, and because it changes our adversary from Bush to Petraeus. I would rather fight Bush.