KCFlyer
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The right is pretty much know for that. Look at 2004...Kerry was painted as an America hater and a fraud by the Swift boat captains. The book's accuracy was and is still in question...but Kerry "had the gall" to "throw his medals" and speak out against the Vietnam war. Apparently the right simply dismissed that people could change (serving in the war to opposing the war). They painted him as a "flip flopper" (I voted for the war until I voted against it). Apparently the right dismissed that as people learn more, they change.the problem with that line of thinking is simply you dismiss that people change.
The right has operated on character assassinations in the past...for goodness sakes, McCain was a VICTIM of a Rove character assassination in South Carolina in 2000. That he readily undertakes one out of desperation just goes to show that people really do change, I guess.