What Kerry lacks is Honor.
In the comments to this post, John Moore from Useful Fools spells out for the class why Kerry is disrespected, especially by those who were there. He dishonored them, he dishonored the country and he dishonored himself - and he still doesn't get it. I was worried you might miss this in the comments so I'm putting it front and center
You hit the nail on the head.John also works with Vietnam Veterans for Truth and has posted much that should be of interest to you, be sure to drop by Useful Fools as you make your way through the blogrolls.Which means, by the way, that the Bush National Guard controversy is not interesting. We've had almost 4 years of Bush in which to examine his honesty.
There is one more part of the Kerry Vietnam kerfuffle that only affects some of us: honor and closure. Those of us who are Vietnam Veterans were all smeared by Kerry, and the lies persist to this day.
If Kerry becomes President, his lies are immortalized and we are all war criminals, baby killers, whatever.
That is what drives the Swifties and it drives me.
Kerry is dishonorable and he spread it onto all of us - while he was still a sworn Navy Officer (1966-1978), spreading the North Vietnamese propaganda.
John Kerry is not a normal presidential candidate. He is a traitor, a man who committed treason for his own self-aggrandizement. He met with the communists in 1970 and spread their propaganda line as the speaker for VVAW (which had other contacts with the enemy).
Since the enemy, after their Tet 68 disaster, decided they could only win by demoralizing us, Kerry was doing their job for them.
It worked.