But that's exactly the point. Because undecided voters aren't smart or informed enough to see how liberal Kerry is, Bush has to paint a very clear picture for them. Although he had some strong lines and clearly won on substance, Bush failed to paint a compelling overall picture of Kerry as unacceptably far-left on foreign policy. To do that, he needed to use Kerry's record,
which he barely did.
He didn't need to, Kerry needed to show why he should be President and not Bush.
Kerry failed in doing that and therefore will lose this election.
Americans are not going to have their foreign policy dictated by 'global testing', espically after seeing how the UN did not handle Saddam.