Captain Ed takes a look at old media, the Swift vets, and how and why Sen. Kerry’s Vietnam service has turned into a lightning rod for scrutiny from the right.

After all,

The Kerry campaign has made his Viet Nam service its front in order to disguise the fact that Kerry has been a complete non-entity for the past twenty years in the Senate, voting over and over again for tax hikes and defense and intelligence cuts. Kerry campaigned for nuclear freezes and against the death penalty while introducing almost no legislation, despite his tenure in the Senate. And now that people have decided to look into the only qualification Kerry himself has offered for his candidacy, his campaign squeals about McCarthyism.

I’m not going to spoil the punch line. Be sure to read the whole thing.