I see a lot of his ads because of the Virginia primary going on next door. Actually I should clarify. I see a lot of one of them, because he only seems to have a single political commercial on the air around here. It’s the one that touts his Vietnam record. In it he says something to the effect of how he learned that “after Vietnam, every day is extra” so he should “do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may.”

Can anyone in a serious, straightforward way write an intellectually honest paragraph to back that up? In other words, can anyone make the case that John Kerry has thrown caution to the wind in any meaningful sense to fight for “what’s right”? I follow politics fairly closely and I’ve been doing my reading about John Kerry but I haven’t a clue as to how he’s talking about his own political career. Note: if you’re going to try, you should know that I don’t consider the case against Bush to be the case for Kerry in this regard. This is about how Kerry has conducted himself since Vietnam. I just want to know how a Kerry supporter could honestly take this statement at face value.