Flag! 15 yard Penalty for flagrant bullshit!

The White House not only disavowed any coordination with the Swift Boaters, they claimed no connection whatsoever.

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee. VA Secretary Anthony Principi appointed Cordier in 2002 and Galanti in 2003.

Cordier said the VA panel has nothing to do with the Bush campaign or the anti-Kerry group. "It's totally apolitical, and we meet twice a year to bring to the secretary's attention problems from around the country in VA hospitals," he said.

Cordier and Galanti appear in an anti-Kerry ad saying their Vietnamese captors used news of anti-war protests, such as ones Kerry organized, to taunt the prisoners. Cordier also was a member of a Bush campaign veterans' committee but quit earlier this month after that role was revealed.

So how else do you define front group or pay off?

The rest of the article is a concise wrap-up of the whole Swiftboat flack, including the unrefutted evidence that their claims were completely discredited and biased due to their fervent hatred of what Kerry did after the came home. And yes, the Oh-So-Crucial unsubstantiated question of whether Kerry was ever in Cambodia is mentioned, as if that makes all the difference to the Bush Zealots.

The President says he wants all the 527's abolished, even going to court to stop them. Yet, the party's chief hatchet man, Tom DeLay, pent the entire Convention shaking down big doners to fund even more of them. Bush is the head of the party isn't he. Are you telling me that he couldn't make a simple phone call to the Republican whip and say, "knock it off." and not expect results.

Let me try to make things perfectly clear. There is absolutely no equivalence here, morally, ethically, legally, logically or tactically. There is a difference, a profound difference between the nature of the GOP and Democrats. There is an indisputable difference in the integrity, honesty, motives and fairness of the two candidates, their surrogates and supporters.

The GOP is run by men with no regard for decency or making America or the world better. Their motives are purely self-serving. It has been this way since Nixon.

• If you are satisfied with Zell Miller as a representative of your beliefs. vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with your candidate having to distance himself from his hand-picked keynote speaker instead of quoting him, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with bitterness and lies dating back 35 years as the best way to chart the future of America, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with broken promioses, intolerance, and failed policies, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with unapolegetic misuse of the power of the office of the Presidency, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with basing a war on a tissue of lies, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with the way that war and it's aftermath was prosecuted, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with our place in the world as viewed by the rest of the world, then vote for Bush. I find it inexcusable that this great Nation is looked upon by others as anything less than unambiguous admiration.
  
• If you are satisfied with and administration that has never stopped campaigning since the inaguration, continually minimized bad news and inflated the importance of good news, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with the prosepect of having to retrain yourself for a new career two or three times in the next 10 years, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with having to take any spare income you have (if you have any) and putting it in a savings account to pay for a possible catastrophic illness while insurance companies make record profits and nothing is done to curb the inflating costs of medical care, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with negative job growth, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with dismantling the wall between church and state, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with completely irresponsible managment of your tax dollars, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with your grandchildren inheriting crippling debt, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with a government that has absolutely no accountability, and with no need even to pretend it's accountable after the election, then vote for Bush.
  
• If you are satisfied with theories rather than results, then vote for Bush.
  

If you are satisfied that the last four years are the best that America can do, then vote for Bush.