Why?

[Brett A]

I don't know why the Right's candidates don't have to account for their privileged exemption from military service. Could be the fear of being bullied from the Right. (do they really do anything else?). Dan Rather lost his job over reporting the truth that George W. was a deserter.

The Right can even seem to conjure up enough half-truths and lies about a veteran's service to knock him out of a Presidential race. Image if The Shrub had the military credentials of John Kerry, the same people who Swift-boated Kerry would have dropped to their knees to pleasure George W. The hypocrisy is maddening.

But it's really the S.O.P. for the Right now; to win at any cost, by any means--it's not even important WHAT is to be won--they just have to win. What is the scary part is all the nails they hammer into the nation's coffin every time they lie and bully to get their way.

The whole "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" b.s. reminds me of ficticuos organization Jon Stewart countered with during the George W. Bush desertion reports: the "Stateside Sons of Privilege for Plausible Deniability" --I always liked that one.