Reply #15: Kerry may be about to change tack... according to this thread

[althecat]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x750650

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040905/nysu013_2.html

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NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- As Senator John Kerry's campaign reeled from tough attacks against his military record by a group of hostile Vietnam vets, his campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and other staffers argued that the Swift Boat ads would blow over. But, as Newsweek reports in the September 13 issue (on newsstands Monday, September 6), Kerry had had enough. For three or four days, as he campaigned across the country, Kerry ripped into Cahill, furious that the mostly baseless attacks on his valor were driving his numbers down.

"He was very angry," one old friend says. "The calculation had been made that this wasn't going to hurt him," report Washington Correspondent Richard Wolffe and General Editor Susannah Meadows. Kerry's solution was to reach for an old ally. "Get Vallely," he screamed. Thomas Vallely is the leader of the pack of vets that Kerry calls his dog-hunters, a group that has beaten back the attacks on his Vietnam record since his first Senate race 20 years ago. "He knows that I know the other players," Vallely says of Kerry's Mayday call. "He knows that I also like this stuff." The return of the old warriors marked a turning point in the Swift Boat controversy, and a rare moment when Kerry stamped his authority on a drifting campaign, reports Newsweek. "OK, time to break out the fatigues. We've been there, done that. Time to do it again," says David Thorne, Kerry's close friend, of the mood among the senator's inner circle.

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This pentagon dirty trick gives him the platform and the vehicle to do so....