MN Bush Campaign, GOP Endorse Swift Vets - "Amazingly Believeable"

[Dickie Flatt]

On August 5, Larry Colson, Bush's eCampaign chairman for Minnesota, directed Minnesota Bush supporters to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's attack ad, saying, "This is an amazingly believable ad."


Webpage "prepared and paid for by Republican Party of Minnesota" and hosted on the official Republican Party of Minnesota website endorses attacks. The webpage has these questions about John Kerry's service in Vietnam:
SWIFT VETS ARE GETTING TO KERRY
DID HE LIE ABOUT HIS SERVICE, repeatedly, in an effort to embellish it?
DID HE TAKE CREDIT for engagements fought by other men (Lt. Ted Peck in particular)?
The website also contains a link to purchase the book produced by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, "Unfit For Command". The webpage belongs to Senate District 42 Republicans.


Another website, registered in the name of Minnesota Republicans and linked directly by the Republican Party of Minnesota claims that John Kerry injured himself, and then lied about the injury, in order to receive a third Purple Heart:
"The conclusion is inescapable: that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home."
The website also says: "This story has some serious legs and will be a significant prologue to the Republican convention in a month." The webpage belongs to Senate District 51 Republicans.

I wrote a dKos diary on this.

[rfranklin]

1. Electro-Comvulsive Therapy may be helpful...

Then again, frontal lobotomies may be required.

[Kierkegaard]

2. Yeah, and it's almost non-fiction!

Disgusting assholes, all of them. They have been caught lying, but they haven't proven any of their allegations against Kerry at all. Power corrupts.

[havocmom]

3. Part of Newt's teachings: Once a lie is uttered, never go back, just keep

repeating it.

There is a flaw in that tactic but some are just too stubborn to see it.
Once a lie is proven to be a lie, just repeating it outs one as a fool, a liar or both. Newt's tactic works only as long as media lets them get away with it. Media is jumping off this particular sinking Swift Boat Bologna.

You can tell Larry Colson I said so.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

4. EXCELLENT...they are digging their own grave.

1)only the choir will listen to it.
2)lets debate them on who served with more distinction.