You know what the problem with the Democrats is: they just don’t fight dirty like the Republicans do.

Or so we were told in the wake of the 2004 presidential campaign, when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacked Vietnam veteran John Kerry for his 1971 congressional testimony in which he relayed (false) stories that fellow troops had murdered, raped, and otherwise tortured civilians on a “day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.”