gatt wrote:

"Owen Hiller" wrote in message
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Kerry realized that he didn't have an anthills' worth of accomplishments
in 20
years of being a US Senator plus being a state lieutenant governor etc.
The
only thing he could come up with was to play up his four (4) months in
Vietnam.

I don't claim to know what motivated Kerry to decide to do it 'cause I
wasn't in his campaign headquarters, either.

Well put yourself in his handlers' shoes. He hadn't done anything remarkable
in 24+ years as a professional politician and was looking for a big
promotion. Voting attendance record? Not good. Intelligence committeee
attendance record? Deplorable. Voting record? All over the map. They
needed some angle to build the campaign on.