Well, all I know is... The folks IN HIS BOAT stand behind him.... And if they cared enough to write a book with a grizzly looking cover you can be sure that at least they... ... were speaking from personal experience.
The rest of these guys got faxed some list of statements... a few pissed off republicans were snagged, signed it, and faxed it back.
These statements made their way into a book which begins "It was a dark and stormy night..."
Great fiction a la Clancy until you remeber that these guys weren't in his damn boat!
The guys in his boat love the dude....