Right Thinking’s Lee brings up a comparison of the Swift Boat vets vs. media behemoth Michael Moore. The original is over at Moorewatch.

Michael Moore has had his ass kicked by the Swift Boat Veterans.
Moore went after President George W. Bush with a blunt instrument, was a hero of the angry left and the darling of the old media, but did little, if anything to derail President Bush. But lead SwiftVet John O'Neill used a scalpel to go after John Kerry, all the while being despised and hated by the old media and the angry left. But his incisions into the Kerry campaign were precision like and left deep cuts and scars on the Kerry campaign and were considerably much more successful. The scars remain on the Kerry campaign to this day.
The net results; a bunch of Viet Nam veterans and the New Media bested Michael Moore and his Old Media pals at their own game.

Wonderful. It shows also why the current attacks on Bush are also doomed for failure. Any non-biased story about Bush’s guard years would have to show taht he more than made up for the last two years of slower duty with a lot more in the first few. In my six years in the guard, I spent almost the entire first two on full time active duty. Then two years later I spent six months doing two tours in Desert Storm. The year after, almost a full year either as a full time or civilian employee. I could have taken my entire last year off totally and it would have made almost no difference at all to my total points.
But here is the fundamental differences:

1. Bush did not make his service part of his campaign at all, let alone the centerpiece. How many people will be swayed by the latest round of leftwing attacks? If they hold it against him that he was part of the guard in the first place, they already knew that.
2. People are going to judge Bush solely on the last 4 years. Since he has a real political record now as President, it is about the only thing people are going to consider.
   

   “It’s kind of like a panic on the part of Kerry: Just because he got clobbered with his record he thinks something like this would hurt Bush,” said Pete Domenici, a Republican Senator from New Mexico. “But they’re not in the same ballpark.”

Texans for Truth, a political organization backed by a group seeking to defeat Bush, said it would begin airing television advertisements in five states next week, featuring a veteran of Bush’s Alabama Air National Guard unit who says he never saw the future president on the base.

So says the Bloomberg article. Just who is this shadowy group fronting money for Texans for Truth? My god, they may be democrats! Halt the presses! This is a breaking news story!

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