Reply #26: Not true [View All]

[redqueen]

While this is not an issue to mainstream Dems whose one goal is to oust bush, and nothing else really matters too much; it is most definitely an issue to the ever-fickle 'swing voter' whom we are purportedly courting with our pro-war, pro-NAFTA candidate.

To those people, personal integrity is a very big deal. If it were ever widely reported in the media that bush is a perennial loser who cheats to get his way, they'd suddenly decide they don't approve of him. Since the media will not report this, and they will never deign to even feign an interest in anything so close to manual labor as actual independent research, bush is safe.

However, Kerry won't be safe. If the media, as is widely expected, reverts to their true form after the nomination, you can safely wager that they will savage Kerry for every itty bitty tie to anything unsavory ever in his life. Those same swing voters will then turn on him, running back to the hapless bush, who tried so hard to 'do the right thing'.