Can we put it to rest that Hillary was a "bad candidate"

[karynnj]

314. You must be younger than I am

Kerry was extremely well known in 1971. All three networks covered his entire statement to the SFRC. On the Nixon tapes, various Nixon people were clear that he was the only antiwar activist who concerned them. He was on Nixon's enemies list and was followed by the FBI.

The local Lowell Sun had several daily stories attacking him every day for the last few months the first time he ran. All totally made up. It created so much hate, that his wife spoke of a brick being thrown through a window landing in the crib of his baby daughter.

Obviously, you saw the swiftboating - a word that now means the despicable lies . That was closer to what Clinton faced. Politically motivated lies and the seeing of everything through the most negative lens possible. Like Clinton, he then was the nominee and a person with status and power.

That was not so in 1971. Then he was a young vet, traumatized by war, attacked by the President and his people. After that, the courage to fight Reagan on the Contras and to continue the BCCI investigation when all the powers in government were against him continuing, showed incredible courage and strength of character. He knew what he would face doing that. It was not just that these things would make it harder for him to gain the presidency, but his life itself was threatened.