Kerry Fans Convinced; Record Cold Front Freezes Hell

Despite disapproval and inattention from the mainstream media, the Swifties clearly made a difference. Listen to two long-time Dems: a journalist and Kerry's biographer.

First, Colbert King, in Saturday's WaPo, quoting Rodney Coleman, "a Howard University classmate, a friend of 47 years," a Democrat, and former assistant secretary of the Air Force:

I vividly recall Kerry's antiwar testimony in April 1971. . . . When Kerry made those critical statements of the war, my parents, God bless them, went ballistic about their son going in harm's way. My military colleagues in the fellows program who had been there and were shot up were incensed that a so-called military man would engage in such insubordinate actions. At the time Kerry made those unfortunate remarks, America had POWs and MIAs, among them my friend, Colonel Fred Cherry, the longest-held black POW of the Vietnam War. How could a true American fighting man throw away his medals, while thousands he fought alongside of were in the midst of another example of man's inhumanity to man?

Kerry still hasn't satisfied me and many others. . . . It's September and I'm still conflicted. Speaking for myself, it is NOT enough that he served!

King concludes:

Those aren't the thoughts of a Republican-funded, right-wing, over-the-top Swift boat veteran. Ignore them, Kerry camp, at your peril.

Second, Douglas Brinkley, who wrote the "authorized hagiography" of Kerry in Vietnam, "Tour of Duty," in Friday's New York Times:

"Every American now knows that there's something really screwy about George Bush and the National Guard, and they know that John Kerry was not the war hero we thought he was," said Douglas Brinkley, the historian and author of a friendly biography of Mr. Kerry's war years, acknowledging that Mr. Kerry's opponents had succeeded in raising questions about his service.

Note to Democrats--when a liberal black columnist and your pet historian defect, it's over.