[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.

[Alberta's Child]

He's still popular enough that if there were no prohibition on a President 'serving' more than two terms, he'd still be President.

This is one of the great myths of modern politics, but it is still a myth.

You saw all sorts of nonsense about "high popularity ratings" in the waning months of X-42's presidency, along with all kinds of wishful thinking from Democrats about what a third Clinton term would be like, but you never saw any legitimate polls showing how he would have fared against any opponents. This is because one of the best-kept secrets from the 2000 campaign is that Bill Clinton would have lost to either George W. Bush or President George H. W. Bush in a head-to-head matchup in November of 2000.