The term "Swift boat" refers to how Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched attacks against Sen.
Hence the absurdity of money being funnelled into quasi-partisan groups like the Swift Boat Veterans.
Mr Kerry was anything but swift in his response to the Swift Boat attacks.
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The other two surviving Swift Boat captains who were there also do not recall being fired on.
Kerry had commanded a swift boat in Vietnam and won two Purple Hearts.
Kerry's reported use of his Swift Boat and crew as props for filming the reenactment of his military exploits.
Schachte gained notoriety in 2004 as a key figure in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against John Kerry.
And that kind of media buzz -- as the Swift Boat controversy proved -- can be worth its political weight in gold.
The most prominent of these is William Rood, a former fellow Swift Boat commander and currently an editor with the Chicago Tribune.
It was lauded by just about every convention speaker and showcased in filmed tributes and embraces from members of his Swift Boat crew.
Cordier gained some notoriety during the 2004 presidential campaign when he participated in the swift boat ads against then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Chris LaCivita from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth produced the ad.
First, he asked the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to prohibit Swift Boat vets from airing ads questioning his performance before and after he left Vietnam.
The Obama campaign has accused the group of "Swift Boat tactics", recalling a highly effective ad from 2004 which questioned John Kerry's Vietnam record.
In 2004, picketers gathered outside his home in Clear Lake, southeast of Houston, to protest his support of President George W. Bush and the Swift Boat campaign.
John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer who co-founded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said that Mr. Perry's activism had its roots in the Carter administration of the 1970s.
Instead, he has called for such tax-exempt organizations, such as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the liberal group MoveOn and others, to stop airing political ads.
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To Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, the video evokes memories of the Swift Boat campaign that mounted a barrage of negative attacks against Kerry's war record.
Republican strategists admit that the Swift Boat veterans' attacks on John Kerry, largely ignored by the old media, would never have got anywhere without the online Drudge Report.
Rather than avoid the topic, Bush supporters came up with the notorious "Swift Boat" campaign that raised enough questions about Kerry's war record to negate a major strength.
This change had nothing to do with the convention and everything to do with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, former fellow soldiers of Mr Kerry in Vietnam.
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Admiral Schachte, the Swift Boat veteran, was among those attending.
Multiple players will help determine the campaign's flow, including Congress, hot Senate candidates, "527" groups (like "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" and the "Media Fund") and, notably, each side's surrogates.
There have been no high-impact independent groups along the lines of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that played a prominent role in attacking John Kerry four years ago.
The phrase "swift boat" comes from the 2004 presidential election, when the group "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" launched an attack ad campaign against Democratic candidate John Kerry that was said by some to be false.
Kerry's military service in Vietnam -- which he showcased at the Democratic National Convention but has since come under attack by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- has become less of an asset, the poll found.
"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.
Even if one takes at face value his decorated conduct in combat - and, according to the Washington Post, doubts raised lately by a number of fellow Swift Boat veterans about his claimed heroism and the medals he received for it cannot be dismissed - the candidate has assiduously downplayed his post-Vietnam conduct, including two decades in the U.S. Senate.
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