SwiftVets.com

[Steve Z]

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40337

According to the above article, Dexter Lehtinen, husband of Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R), and an Army Ranger wounded in Vietnam, has spent $50,000 of his own money on ads in military newspapers and Roll Call, in order to warn young military personnel (too young to remember Vietnam) against voting for Kerry based on his Vietnam service.

Lehtinen recalls his bitterness against Kerry, hearing Kerry's Senate testimony while he was recovering from his wounds.

According to the article, Lehtinen has no connections with SBVT, but he could become a great ally to the SBVT cause, if someone from SBVT could contact him. An injured veteran, angry about Kerry's Senate testimony, willing to take out full-page ads, whose wife is a Congresswoman from Florida, big swing state, full of military people--can we sign him up?
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The traitor will crater!

[RV]

This is becoming a real national grassroots movement. I love it.

The liberal elite thought they could shove an anti-war protester and Vietnam veterans backstabber disguised as a decorated veteran through our troats.

Stick that in your hat Michael Moore!

Thank you Swifties!

[Guest]

people need to see that it's most veterans not just the swifties against kerry.
nice to see it goin on.

[Indianbaboon]

actually its best that SBVfT, stolen honor, and Lehtinen and any other veterans grop (thank you), stay separate from each other. THe more obviosu this becomes that it's not a Bush thing but a Veteran and HOnor thing, the louder the message will be heard.

[MJB]

[Stacman]

I'd like to see more ads being run. There's been a real slowdown in the exposure allowing the focus to move away from this. Especially now after Clinton has advised Kerry to stop talking of Vietnam, more pressure should be applied. Kerry couldn't ignore the accusations. Otherwise he'd be accused of ducking the issue. So it stands to reason the he'd have to defend the indefensible.

The Kerry campaign has stepped up their ridicule of the president's role in the National Guard. Maybe they don't always do it directly, but it's directed through the liberal owned media (e.g. NYT and the AP in general). What's fair is fair.

Even though Kerry is down in the polls at the moment, it's no time to become complacent and letting up. This has to be kept at the forefront of the entire election campaign before Kerry is allowed control of the White House. If that happens, our military will again be reduced to a bare minimum as happened in the Clinton years, and we'll be run by the UN. Not to mention the exorbitant tax increases.

Also, as a veteran I'd like to see my benefits continue. Which brings up another question about Kerry I hadn't seen mentioned before. For his three purple hearts, has he been rated as disabled by the VA? Or had he even registered since he has his billionare pyscho wife?

[Steve Z]

I agree with Stacman that SBVT needs to get some more ads out there soon, so that the entire Vietnam service / veteran-smearing / negotiating with the enemy issue doesn't drop out of sight during the last two months of the campaign.

While SBVT probably wants to stay independent of the Bush campaign, so that the Kerry people can't paint them as "partisan" or a non-527 group, asking Lehtinen to join forces with SBVT could bring in more $$$ (he invested $50,000 in his own ads), he is an injured veteran who resents Kerry's Senate testimony, and is probably talking as a VETERAN rather than a Republican.

SBVT might want to "vet" Lehtinen first to see if he has any direct ties to the Bush campaign, but welcome him aboard if not. Since all House members are up for re-election this year, chances are that Lehtinen is campaigning more for his WIFE than for Bush!

It would probably be more effective for all Vietnam veterans to "pool their resources" behind a single anti-Kerry group than for several groups to be running ads separately, and possibly wasting scarce financial resources on duplicate ads in the same medium.
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[Stacman]

The Kerry campaign is going to accuse the SBVT of being tied to the Bush campaign regardless of whether there's any actual truth in it. So they might as well be. After all, it isn't necessarily a smear campaign as it is making Kerry accountable for his actions both during his three months and five awards, and his testimonials upon his return.

Kerry's campaign is being funded huge amounts of money by outside interests (i.e. Hollywood, etc.) to keep his legal staff active in trying to suppress any individual or group daring to challenge them. So they've made all tactics fair game in my opinion.

The high road has been blocked. It's time to surround him on all sides and expose him. Regardless of who gets trampled in the process. We'll all be better off for it come November 3rd... (Unless of course Kerry pulls a Gore and sues for recounts)...

[m_drummond]

I emailed Hannity and Scarborough. They're both friends of the Congresswoman, so who knows.
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[Stacman]

I e-mail Hannity all the time. I think he ignores me because he never talks about what I send in.

I wrote today in fact about his 5 awards (4 actually) in a mere 21 days. That's a truly amazing feat. Too bad he didn't really earn them...

[stop kerry]

can anyone get a copy posted of the ad ????? I think the blogspere could easily multiply the ad and hopefully Drudge of crush kerry etc. might pick it up.

[Rovercop]

[rua]