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Was moveon.org good for Kerry, or bad for him? Where was Kerry when the compared POTUS to Hitler?
These ads are saying what the candidate can't say.
The candidate can deny it, decry it, and make counter-accusations, but the damage has already been done.
This is doubly effective, because Kerry made his service the centerpiece of his campaign. Self-inflicted (and delusional) gunshot wound there.
If he had run on his actions since he bacame a Senator, this would have been much less relevant and less damaging.
The ads have also played the next card, which is to remind people of Kerry's post-VN record, which is going to hurt him seriously with the vets who may have missed "The Forgotten Years" of Kerry's career.
This smear may cause thousands who would have stayed howm to come out and join the "Anybody But Kerry" bandwagon. Hope he likes his taste of that.
Finally, the SBVFTT and the ad have served as a rallying point, put some energy into the campaign, brought money in, and garnered millions in free ads on the major networks as they aied snippets of the ad campaign. POTUS can ignore the ads thill their damage and effectiveness is done, then deny them and cry foul.
Kerry is having to spend money he was saving, in order to counter allegations which are sticking, and bringing up an ugly period in his career.
What's not to like?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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