[Aggie Mama]

HLL,
I keep thinking that the WMD's and Osama will pop up just about the same time. I am, however, starting to get worried that Bush will continue to play nice agaist Kerry. They have so much material against Kerry and aren't using any of it. They are letting Kerry define Bush instead of Bush defining himself. That really hacks me off.

[Timeout]

Don't be so down. I learned a long time ago to let the Bushies play out their rope before I get disheartened.

Dick Morris, of whom I'm not usually enamored, has a terrific piece in the NY POST this morning. Here's how the Bush game plan plays out:

Stage 1) Define Kerry as a Flip-Flopper (this is already working)

Stage 2) Kerry's game plan, like all donkeys, is to "move to the center" after the primaries. Now that Kerry is afraid of appearing to flip-flop, he won't be able to do it without playing into the flipper immage. At this stage Bushies inform voters of his liberal voting record. He won't be able to disown it.

Stage 3) Now that voters find themselves looking for Kerry's flippers, begin the charge that he's too weak and indecisive to be president. He won't be able to effectively respond.

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As to getting disheartened, this doesn't mean I haven't entered the phase where I just can't read a lot of the news because it's so relentlessly negative on Bush. Even we optimists have our limits!