"And here's, you know, a good guy, a good friend. I respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and never bled that I know of. I mean, they're all superficial wounds. Three Purple Hearts and you're out."
Very classy, Bob. Speaking of America's most famous advocate for better living through chemistry, let's imagine the Republican response if a Democrat-funded group of WWII veterans had come forward in 1996 to question Bob Dole's version of the events which lead to his combat wounds. The oxygen would have been sucked out of the Earth's atmosphere from all the Republican gasps of indignation, and the streets would have run red with blood from all the Republican neck veins bursting in conniption. The editors of National Review would have called for an apology and an immediate reduction of the corporate income tax. John Ashcroft would have begun speaking in tongues and handling snakes. Newt Gingrich would have taken a fire-axe to the set of Meet the Press. George Will might possibly have experienced an emotion. I tell you, shit would have gotten crazy.
I doubt whether we'd have even gotten to the point of discussing whether or not the charges were true, as the conservative attack machine, with the requisite howls of "liberal media!", would have shut down the smear campaign by pointing out that questioning Dole's valor was despicable, and they'd have been right.
As it is, conservatives are still, hilariously, trying to play the "liberal media!" card by claiming that the SwiftVets, who can't seem to get a story straight between them, aren't getting enough attention. Or the right kind. Or something.
Pathetic.
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