[xzins]

It was clear that this was the dem strategy when they began the new campaign 2.5 years before the next election. I wrote about it then, that the point was complicity between the media and the dems to enable the media to broadcast negative information against the president with impunity by calling it "news."

In the future, it will probably be necessary to counteract this strategy by running a real republican primary

[jwalsh07]

In the future, it will probably be necessary to counteract this strategy by running a real republican primary

Primaries weaken incumbents. Bush is keeping his powder dry, nothing to worry about. Kerry's negatives will be rising exponentially in short order.