Your Typical Swift Boat Liar and the Bush Campaign

Others have already mentioned Ken Cordier, bigger, more prominant blogs than this one. But we at Rising Hegemon will not let a little fact like Redundancy get us down. Let us then cobble together what appears to be Mr. Codier's involvement with the Bush Administration and a 527 Organization and how those connections are shown --as well as why Mr. Cordier is such an archetypical member of "Appointed for Life: Bush Family Uber Alles, 2004 Edition."

As Digby showed, Mr. Cordier is first and foremost obviously a lovely man:

Kenneth Cordier...held other POW's to account for accepting early release from the North Vietnamese as traitors

At a memorial in Dallas for fallen soldiers, Cordier spoke and exuded the kind of class you expect from the "hard core" Bush Supporters:

Unfortunately, one of the invested [sic] guests, retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier, a decorated former Vietnam POW and experienced speaker, chose to politicize this solemn event. In an attempt at levity, he defended the pulling of ladies' panties over the faces of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. interrogators at Abu Ghraib as preferable to beheading.

After this event, Mr. Cordier probably attended a "Take Back the Night" Rally and encouraged women to "at least try to enjoy it" when you are being raped and made a crack about "how many of you women here are two-baggers anyway, har, har, har."

Mr. Cordier was a volunteer for Bush/Cheney 2004 ("The Dimmer Twins") serving as a member of his a steering committee to help reach out to veterans during this election right up to August 19, 2004.

Yet,

The Bush campaign has claimed no connection with the group which has led an attack on Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, questioning his war record in Vietnam and criticizing his testimony at a congressional hearing in 1971 in which Kerry alleged U.S. troops committed atrocities.

No involvement? Uh-huh...