We're still waiting

Jim Geraghty of NRO's Kerryspot column fisks Kerry's answer to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. There aren't links for individual posts, just scroll or check archives for the one including "KERRY'S SWIFT BOAT RESPONSE [08/19 06:13 PM]" in the title.

Kerry hasn't really answered the questions about his Cambodia claims or his Apocalypse Now fantasies. Merely calling his fellow Swift Boat vets liars and pointing to their source of funding doesn't really answer their claims, and attacking them as "a front for the Bush campaign" when Democrat-oriented 527 groups like MoveOn.org have been spending all kinds of money on scurrilous ads demonizing Bush. I didn't notice Kerry calling for Move On or George Soros to drop their advertising.

Meanwhile the mainstream media (MSM) are practically screaming their own hypocrisy by not giving any coverage to Kerry's weird claims about having been in Cambodia delivering CIA, Navy SEALs, Green Berets and/or guns on illegal covert missions. The details of firefights with the VC don't really interest me, because there's not much of a way to prove whose memories are accurate, but this Cambodia stuff, and Kerry's weak response and equivocation about it really do give reason to distrust his integrity and judgment. What personal need drives a man who's already achieved prominence to gild the lily like this?