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...leaning, the race was Kerry's to lose. Now he appears to be losing it--or at least that slight edge he had gained. First came the Senator's latest clear-as-mud explanation of his position on the Iraq war; then, more harmfully, came the sabotage by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Just as President Bush and the Republicans take their turn in the spotlight at their gathering in New York City, Kerry finds himself having to prove all over again to wary swing voters that he has what it takes to be Commander in Chief...
Russian plane sabotage; why the swift-boat story won't go away; Rumsfeld and the prison scandals; homophobic reggae gets a little...
Some lifelong Bush backers from Texas have provided big sums to SBVT, and last week Bush campaign counsel Benjamin Ginsberg resigned from the campaign after acknowledging that he had advised the group, though he insisted he had done nothing illegal. Now it turns out that retired Rear Admiral and swift-boat veteran William Schachte, who claimed the wound that won Kerry his first Purple Heart was self-inflicted, is counsel at the same law firm as David Norcross, chairman of this week's Republican National Convention. Norcross tells TIME he knew nothing about Schachte's claim. "There's no connection...
...knew that we were going to stir the pot, but I had no idea we'd be this successful," says retired Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann, Kerry's former commander and founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). By last Friday the group said its website alone had raised $2.5 million from 37,183 donors--money Hoffmann says he plans to use to pummel Kerry with ads right up to Election Day. Kerry campaign officials say their focus groups suggest a backlash is building, one they hope will pick up if they can link President Bush to SBVT...
...world has wanted a candidate with a 'positive plan for the future,'" says James Carville. Unfortunately, focus-group members are also human beings. In a roomful of strangers, they present their most noble selves. They hate political attacks--but not really. They have obviously responded to the scurrilous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Kerry's war record, which is why he was forced, finally, to counterattack last week. The Swifties' ability to dominate the news with incendiary nonsense is, I believe, a direct result of Kerry's unwillingness to dominate the news with tart, controversial substance by challenging...