In the past few days a number of stories have once again come up about Bush's service in the National Guard. Surprisingly (or maybe not), the media picked up on these stories pretty quickly, as compared to how long it took them to pick up on stories questioning Kerry's VietNam experience. Continuing to bring up VietNam era records seems to be a pretty dumb strategy for the Dems. At this point, enough doubt has been established about Kerry's military record and his credibility about that record that by continuing to bring up that era, even in the form of questions about Bush's record, all the Dems are doing is reminding people of Kerry's exaggerations. This is also the third time in the last 4 years that we are hearing the same stories; if people didn't buy them the first two times, what makes the Dems think that the third time people will react to them.
More interestingly, the memos that this "new" information on Bush is based (on the CBS site, and in the Boston Globe story), could very well be forgeries. Powerline makes a pretty convincing case that they could not have been written in the early 70's. If this does turn out to be the case (not that I would expect the "mainstream" media to investigate that), there could be a tremendous backlash against the Dems.
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