It's all about how/why Kerry chose to make Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. For some perspective on that, when I talked to my wife about the Swift Vets thing, she was pretty underwhelmed. I think the voting public has been pretty well immunized against negative attacks.
However, she said "Kerry was only in Vietnam for 4 months?"
The effect of the swift vets ad may not have been what all the blog writers think. I suspect many people are ignoring it, but they would have expected to hear more from Kerry by now. Since they haven't, there's this assumption that he must have been this really incredible war hero. He wasn't on say, the Patton, Powell, or Eisenhower level. He was an ensign, and he only saw 4 months of combat. Intense combat, sure, and he gets points for that. But we require our Presidents to have more then just a one-line resume.
So now the Kerry Campaign is trying to regroup
The problem is, they were never "grouped" in the first place.
The problem for Kerry will be that reading that the Campaign is on the rocks is probably worse for him then any of the Swift Boats stuff. Well, not the problem, _a problem.
The problem for Kerry is that none of his platform makes sense. He's going to provide health care for every American by getting the government into the health insurance business? Please. One of the reforms Bush did for Medicare (which has only partially taken affect) was that Medicare was willing to pay for a $29,000 operation, but not $5 worth of preventative care. Not even HMO's are that stupid.
States that have implemented medical tort reform have had their health care costs rise 10-15% vs. the 44% for states without tort reform. If you do the math, medical costs are high because of John Edwards. So Kerry can't fix the real problem, which is to kill all the lawyers.
Now he's claiming Bush is a liar because Medicare went up by $12/month. Maybe Bush could lower it if he took the $60M Edwards made suing doctors and gave it seniors.
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