You are very astute.
The RAT leaders admitted that "August was a terrible month" for the Kerry team.
Why? The Swift Boat Vets put them on the DEFENSIVE!.
This Rather memo thing is a diversion. And it worked. How much about the Swift Boat Vets have you heard in the last few days? The Kerry camp is trying to turn the tables. They will do anything to do that. They want Bush on the defensive like Kerry was on the defensive for the entire month of August.
The Bush-Cheney team needs to keep pressing the attacks. Cheney made a BIG mistake for backing off the comment about danger increasing if Kerry is elected.
Unless we put and keep Kerry on the defensive, the slight Bush lead will erode again.
It is attack ads that work, not Mr. Nice Guy ads. Right now, Bush is on the defensive, even if the memo is a forgery. Bush MUST take to the offensive again. Hannity and Rush must start exposing Kerry as a fraud, NOT keep defending Bush from this forged memo.
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The Dems are following the very simple strategy of "the best defense is an offense".
They can't defend Kerry's record and can't refute the SwiftVets charges, so they attack Bush, to keep him and his supporters so busy defending him, that they forget about attacking Kerry.
That's why we need to make sure we will continue pointing out the truth about Kerry.
Fortunately the SwiftVets are focused, they are coming up with new ads -- I hope some of the media will pay attention, and we need to keep those issues on the front burner.