Just saw the new SB ad with the former POW’s talking about the torture they endured to avoid giving the enemy the succor that Kerry offered freely in his 1971 testimony to Congress. The most powerful one yet….by far…and not least because it rises above the said/she said nature of the early ads about actions on the battlefield.
As I said in an earlier post, the debate will never be settled over what really happened when the bullets flew – and my guess is Kerry was courageous and did his duty. But his post-combat and post-war actions are not in doubt. And basing the new ad on those is far more effective to my mind.
Everyone is crediting the ads and the book with a profound impact in the pols. One wonders at this point though if the electorate has reached full Vietnam fatigue or if the ads are at the point of diminishing returns. Don’t know.