KEEP DIGGING, LURCH
If Karl Rove is half as good--and nasty--a campaign strategist as Kerry and the Democrats make him out to be, then they are going to get buried if they don't get Vietnam, and Kerry's actual record from then, off the table as fast as they can. Stunts like this letter is not a good sign that they are going to drop it. If they don't, milder versions of Misha's response to these tactics are going to be flowing like water from a broken spigot.

Wheeling Max Cleland out is just too old and crass a maneuver. He's no war hero. He blew his own ass up, you morons! If anything, his getting mangled showed a severe lack of brain power that should have prevented him from ever getting elected in the first place. Calling into question someone's record on defense is not questioning their patriotism. Cleland got his walking papers because he was carrying Big Labor's water and his constituents were revolted by it. It was a perfectly legitimate subject for Chambliss's campaign to bring up. If they didn't they would have been potzers and would have deserved to lose.