[alnick]

made him more popular than ever.

Well, I don't think flipping a Vietnam vet off at The Wall on Memorial Day would make Lurch more popular.

[Gorjus]

Well, I don't think flipping a Vietnam vet off at The Wall on Memorial Day would make Lurch more popular.

With whom? Who cares - except those who have already evaluated Kerry and know he's pond scum? What single person will change his mind based on that?

The people accepted a President who was a rapist, a sexual harasser, and who took advantage of a young intern. He's still popular enough that if there were no prohibition on a President 'serving' more than two terms, he'd still be President.

There's an awful lot of wishful thinking in this thread. Your literal statement - that it would not make him more popularl - is probably about right. Few will care. A few would like him more - Moveon.org, for example. A few will like him less (not counting those whose opinion of him was already zero). Overall, not a significant issue.

Now, if he had been a Republican, it would have been news.