Kerry Thinks He's Ready for the Swiftboaters

Bill Sammon writes a piece in today's Examiner about John Kerry's current campaign for President. You remember him - he lost in 2004. One of the things that helped drive up his negatives was the questions that were raised about his Vietnam service by his fellow Swiftboaters. So pointed was their attack that now "swiftboating" has become a political verb.

When asked how he planned to handle the Swifties this time, he had this to say:

Asked if he dreads the prospect of being “Swift-Boated” all over again, Kerry counters that he would relish such a fight.

“I’m prepared to kick their ass from one end of America to the other,” he declares. “I am so confident of my abilities to address that and to demolish it and to even turn it into a positive.”

Kerry’s tough talk triggers laughter from John O’Neill, a fellow Vietnam veteran who helped found Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth and wrote a blistering 2004 book on Kerry, “Unfit for Command.”

“Well, he’s got eight times as much time to prepare for us as he spent in Vietnam,” says O’Neill, referring to Kerry’s short tour of duty.

I doubt if Kerry has a serious chance of getting the nomination again, so we probably won't get to see him in full "ass-kicking" mode. Too bad.