GOP: Bill Clinton Served the Nation with Distinction

Here's a switch (also from last night's Hardball) in which Bush operative Matthew Dowd, trying to defend charges that Bush and Cheney are chickenhawks, says:

Bill Clinton served the presidency with distinction without having served in Vietnam or in a war.

Now, this is desperation when they resort to saying anything nice about Clinton just to serve their purposes.

Read the whole transcript, and you'll see that Chris Matthews actually came down hard on Dowd for doctoring Kerry tapes then shown to the GOP.