Reply #14: Their plan already failed [View All]

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The script(and this heavily shows and implies Bush responsibility for SBVFT) was to undercut Kerry on the leadership theme and overwhelm them as had been the plan for years with "9/11 Leadership" to gloss over 9-5 daily incompetence. The money, the Bush slime scheme, the prone, stone-headed DNC strategists were all Rove givens and the script could not be changed. They had to bull through, but it has all gone lame, with several new negativities accumulated under pressure, backfires. An irreversible bluff that will be called.

Kerry saw this coming when he planned his Convention to counter this exact, telegraphed strategy. If he had downplayed his war record he would have been even more vulnerable. As much as some of us would have liked to see the GOP reactor melt down completely, overall it has been a victory for us. The inexplicable and even stupid appearance of some of their Convention stratagem's shows a GOP plan with its pants down around the knees. Contained, failed, and crumbling.

Deficits do matter, Mr. Cheney. The bill comes due in November.

Rose Garden, money, surprises, media spin. The debate(I just shake my head here). Try to do no harm(Bush and Cheney couldn't even manage that in leading up to the Convention!).

Well, be prepared for incredibly outrageous efforts by Bush and Rove, but in the "real world" Bush has no where to go but down.