With the president descending to the most shameless sort of attack politics to save his presidency, there’s an understandable desire on the part of Democrats to reopen every political vulnerability he has that has yet to be fully explored or dissected: his failure to show up for military service in the Texas Air National Guard, personal indiscretions from his ‘lost years’, insider deals from the various failed companies. All of it.
I have no argument with any of this. I think it makes perfect sense. To pick up on the military language that is now so ubiquitous, I think Democrats need to open up on all fronts.
As noted later in the piece, this just gets into a tit-for-tat campaign and doesn’t do anything to undermine the president’s claims that he deserves another four years. Kerry’s commendations were based on his willingness to attack ambushers in Vietnam, but he’s not the commander of a small combat unit anymore. Now he’s the general of his own army and and needs to take the fight to his opposite number and ignore the “irregulars” and militia fighters who operate on his opponent’s behalf.
Sheesh, speaking of ubiquitous military language . . . .