The whole thing smells. Our campaign smells too. You have it right. We never shot any howitzers at Kerry, either. Everybody thinks Rove is such a genius, but I think he should have had a conservative as one of those debate hosts, and that Bush should have been making daily demands for Kerry to release his records. This campaign was a joke, ala Bush Senior in 92.
Even if President Bush manages to win the election, I agree with you. The fact that those messages didn't make it out is ridiculous, and a lost opportunity to expose the left's duplicity (to help future campaigns). I'm disgusted that even seeing how Bush's debate performances were better when he was on the attack and calling Kerry on his lies, that lesson wasn't carried over into the campaign.