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From various articles I've read, many people regard Kerry as elitist, a flipflopper, and insincere. This is after months of Kerry bashing by the right wing. They used bigotry--"accused" him of being French as a way of saying snob. They used distortion to make him sound like a flipflopper. And they used lies to try to take away his service in Vietnam and make him sound unpatriotic. The only one of those issues where the truth seems to have prevailed (so far) is that regarding his service in Vietnam and any questions of his patriotism.
Given their success, it seems to me that the Democrats have got to do all they can to do the same to Bush. Show him as an ignorant coward who lies on policy and in his personal life. They can't let up until some of that truth sticks. Do to Bush what the wingnuts did to Gore, to Clinton, and are now trying to do to Kerry.
It's unfortunate that this is the state of politics, but we owe it all to Reagan and Gingrich, who launched the era of lies and unethical political methods. Until someone again finds a way to win on simply truth and ideas, politics will be dirty.
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