Kerry: Slo-Mo on Swifties
By MAUREEN DOWD
NY Times
Published: August 22, 2004
Note: An Op-Ed by Dowd that gives a non-flattering re/view of G.W.'s approved method of attacking with surrogates; a practice that depends on projecting falsehoods to a receptive audience, "first-out" charges by the media that are not refuted until they exact damage on their target, and unrestrained jingoism.

Dowd is right though: the Kerry Campaign should have expected these kinds of slim attacks, should have had a clear plan to deal with it, and should not have allowed the Bush campaign a free ride on these allegations about Kerry's military service.

The Xinhuan newspaper suggests this episode is a measure of Mr. Kerry's ability to deal with situations like this; and though the Kerry Campaign and related 527 Committee's did respond in a worthwhile manner, it was a defensive response that will have to fight hard just to get the discourse back to neutral.

At least one Democrat must sincerely hope the Kerry Campaign has a plan, like Kerry's Vietnam Silver Star winning tactic, of courageously attacking an enemy when it was not expected such action. The Far Left would probably go farther and pencil in the plan a picture of Bush as the "Kid in a Loincloth".