[shetlan]

"Will somebody explain to me again what is relevant about what anyone did in the 1970s with regard to a presidential campaign 30 years later?"

"Character" for starters.

[Tall_Texan]

You don't think people can change over 30 years? You don't think they can rethink their positions over that long a time?

Personally, I don't care if Kerry raped Jane Fonda while burning an American flag and I don't care if Bush drove drunk from Texas to Alabama while skipping out on Guard duty. Even if we accept that the worst of the charges are all true...

IT HAPPENED THIRTY F*CKING YEARS AGO! SO WHAT???

We have a war to fight, an economy to fix, a health care system in jeopardy of imploding, an out-of-control court system and national borders with more holes than Saddam's palaces right here in 2004. And the two candidates have a decade's worth of public speeches, votes and proposals to weigh one candidate against the other without having to revisit 1970, 1971 or 1972.

It's insulting to think campaigns have stooped to this.