Swift Boat Veterans open door to re-examine Bush's boozy past

Part of the reason the Swift Boat veterans for Truth will work against the President is that they pried the lid off of lines of questioning left for dead. They have effectively lowered the bar for all of us, and with Bush, the bar goes pretty low.

I'd expect some pretty serious (though fact-based) counter attacks on Bush. For example, here's a story about how the President once claimed he was in the Air Force. Um, not quite.

Milktoast McPaper, USA Today, picks at the scab of the unresolved issues concerning the gaps in Bush's service record. But the thing that is most devastating to the President is the most obvious. While Kerry was getting shot at, Bush was drinking it up on a low-level campaign in Alabama.

As Juan Cole writes,"He gave no service to anyone, risked nothing, and did not even slack off efficiently." Cole makes that charge, in part, on the basis of a March 30 MPR interview with some of the workers on the campaign. George was all about the booze back then. Comparisons will naturally arise. Questions about Bush's past that have been uneasily put to bed will peek out from the covers. George, are you an alcoholic? How much coke did you do? Where were you really during the unaccounted time during your service in the Guard?

It's all fair game again.