The less you know, the more likely you are to support the president.
Of course he refuted the claims, when Time magazine sent a reporter down the river, the former viet cong who had been there refuted the claims.
The people who were on the boat with Kerry refuted the claims, the Navy refuted the claims.

But hey, some people don't see the Navy and the people who were on the boat with Kerry at the time, or even the Vietnamese who were there as reliable sources. They would rather trust people who weren't there and who were being paid by the GOP as a far more trustworthy source. Because Logic is a Liberal disease.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address