EXCELLENT Raines on Smart vs Dumbo! MUST READ!

[LynnTheDem]

John Kerry is a flip-flopper and a phony: That's the spine of the White House message, carried at the moment mainly in thepurportedly independent commercials by Vietnam veterans questioning Kerry's battlefield performance.

There's a reason these ads are paid for by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a front financed by Karl Rove's wealthy Texas allies, rather than by the Bush campaign itself.

Bush doesn't want to identify with these worms, but he wants them to keep eating away at the apple of Kerry's stronger reputation as a warrior. And a contrived debate over Kerry's well-documented war record diverts voters' attention from a truly important national security question related to the intellectual capability of the incumbent:

Was George W. dumb enough to be talked into adopting a flawed strategy for a phony war by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/27/8852/34342

[Catfight]

1. this flip flopping stuff is boring, trite and plain ass stupid. It's so

stupid to say, "Oh, Johnny is changed his mind, something must be wrong with him," how elementary are they going to go. They only appeal to like minded dumbasses. I can't believe these tactics work on people, Bush followers are really a bunch of none thinking zombies who appear too lazy to research the truth. I wish all of them would volunteer for his war.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Bush: Rock solid and even more dense . . . nt

[krkaufman]

3. link to full editorial

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37225-2004Aug26.html