Everyone needs to consider the facts of the "forgery."

This from the Sun Times:

"Ardolino's expert, Philip D. Bouffard, is a nationally recognized forensic authority in typewriter and electronic typefaces.
Bouffard has the largest collection of full letter impact typewriter specimens in a private collection today. Having worked at NCR and a forensic laboratory for more than 30 years, Bouffard still works with entities such as the State of Ohio on Medicare fraud cases.
Bouffard said the CBS documents appear to have been copied about 10 times in the state he saw them. Nevertheless, he states, "All the documents have been created on the same printer. And the proportional spacing and the common characteristics of numbers like 4 and 7 and letters like lower case c and upper case G are beyond the capabilities of any of the typewriter impact specimens I have in my collection. The centering of headings is also beyond the capabilities of any typewriter I know of."
His conclusion: "It is remotely possible there is some typewriter that has the capability to do all this ... but it is more likely these documents were generated in the common Times New Roman font and printed out on a computer printer that did not exist at the time they were supposedly created."
Bouffard is a registered Democrat planning to vote for Kerry.
In a related story, the Associated Press has reported that the son of Killian, Gary Killian, has questioned the authenticity of the documents as well and said they didn't come from his family."

The liberals are just gonna have to consider this as maybe a viscious lie. If this were the Republicans, I would want to know and I would be very angry. I know politics is mean, and getting meaner. But this, if true, is beyond the pale.
We must start requiring honesty our of our own parties. We cannot keep going down this road. I know liberals will say "what about the swiftboat ads?" They may have been brutal, I admit. And really not relevant imo, but the fact that they were of all different political persuasions convinced me that the Bush campaign didn't have anything to do with it and there has been no proof that they did. Bush making it clear that he honored Kerry's service and even going so far as to say Kerry served more honorably because he was in harms way showed real class to me.
I haven't heard Kerry say anything demeaning about Bush's service either. Correct me if I am wrong.
If it is proven that the Kerry Campaign had anything to do with this, democrats should be angry and let them know. I would hope we Republicans would do the same.

UPDATE:
Dan Rather went on CNN and said that he knows the Jerry Killian documents to be authentic, and knows that they are not forgeries. Therefore, he said, there will be no retraction, no correction, and -- apparently -- no investigation.

So we are just suppose to TRUST Dan Rather??? Come on!! If he has any integrity left he will put this all out on the table and let the truth be told. If he is right, then he should be confident in it being looked into. As long as he holds out, he looks like a liar.

This is an interesting article on the role of the bloggers in this story.. here.