"With the exception of the Reagan debate lesson, Bush strategists have learned a lot from earlier presidential campaigns, especially Bush's own in 2000. Remember, for example, the last week of that campaign.
Bush continued traveling but he dropped his attacks on Al Gore and merely asked voters to elect him. He told one Republican leader he expected to get 300-plus electoral votes and win Michigan, Pennsylvania, and perhaps even New Jersey (he lost all three). Gore, of course, took the opposite tack, stepping up his criticism of Bush. And the race tightened to a dead heat.
Bush won't go soft again. He intends to zing Kerry as aggressively as ever in the week leading up to November 2."
What is it with Republicans that they always being conned into "taking the high road", which always lead straight to defeat.
Bush better not go soft, he has to do what works. And why is TELLING THE TRUTH about Kerry and his record, and not letting him get away with lies considered "an attack"?