Flip-flop with a limp

John Kerry:

I know you heard during the last week while Here is my answer: I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they had chance, and I will not have it questioned by those who misled this nation into war in Iraq.

Oookay. So what are you going to do about it? As Michael Barone said, that is what you say to your butler, not to the American people.

He's ducking the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth by claiming that they're a front for the Bush campaign and charging a smear, but he hasn't done anything to answer them, and Bush has distanced himself from any criticism of Kerry's military service. Kerry would like us all to be as accommodating as the press and take his word for it, but when the Republicans have so lavishly praised all who serve in the military, you have to be pretty well brainwashed to believe that they're as devious and evil as this. In fact, you'd have to believe two incompatible ideas: that the Republicans are so stupid as to resort to a blatant smear and that they're so smart and shrewd as to do it through a front group. Then you have to be naive enough not to ask why he doesn't have a press conference and answer questions, release his records, and where's the evidence. Then you have to hope to high heaven that your audience didn't hear Zell Miller's speech or see any of those Swift Boat Vets ads.
And most of all, you have to hope they haven't got cable access and watch Fox News Channel which beat all three broadcast networks the three nights of the convention.