Christopher Hayes, in Nation, writes of “Return of the Swift Boater:”
More than three years after John Kerry’s bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the party is still haunted by the specter of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Once upon a time, “Swift boat” denoted an obscure military vessel, but thanks to the activities of this group it has come to represent movement conservatism’s penchant for ruthlessly (and effectively) smearing any and all political opponents, from a sitting senator and war hero to an 11-year-old boy with a cranial fracture
Hayes bellyaches the Swift Boaters were effective, but fails to mention that the Swift Boat contribution paled in comparison to the ‘rats sugar daddy, George Soros:
The December 1, 2003, USA Today quoted Soros’s worth at “about $7 billion,” of which Soros had pledged “$15.5 million to anti-Bush, anti-conservative groups … giving $10 million to Americans Coming Together, $2.5 million to MoveOn.org, and $3 million to the Center for American Progress.” Soros was then in the process of “writing his own anti-Bush book. The Bubble of American Supremacy, a critique of the president’s foreign policy,” which hit bookstores in January 2004. [5]
I love the smell of the ‘rats panicing.
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