And the Repug Base will Probably Buy It

Bush Campaign Tactics

With Mr Kerry enjoying a bounce of about 4 per cent from last week's Democratic convention in Boston, Mr Bush's aides said they will campaign on the President's record and his agenda for a second term.

So, they're going to campaign on Bush's botching of two wars in as many years, the fact that he hasn't caught the perpetrator of 9/11, the fact that he has failed to made us safer in the wake of 9/11 (see the Commission's findings), his turning a 300-plus billion dollar budget surplus into a 400-plus billion dollar deficit (not to mention the several hundred billion dollar deficits he ran in previous consecutive years), his increasing unemployment, his tanking of a strong economy, his increasing the wealth of the wealthy while taking away social services for the poor, his gutting of the EPA, his pissing away international support, etc, etc, etc. I don't know...seems like kind of a risky campaign tactic.

But reports indicate [the Repugs] will also directly attack Mr Kerry, trying to divert attention from what they say was his brief, four-month tour in Vietnam 30 years ago.

Really! Do they really think that comparing an actual tour of duty in Vietnam to not even being able to complete a son-of-privilege tour in the ANG is such a wise idea?

"This gives us a chance to lay out an agenda, to tell people what he wants to do over the next four years," Karl Rove, Mr Bush's senior political adviser, told The New York Times.

More money thrown at the wealthy, more pandering to the Religious Reich, more fear-mongering, more war. Thanks Herr Rove, we get it.