[Cicero]

You may be right. OTOH, Kerry's Vietnam service, which he has made an absolute centerpiece of his campaign, is even further in the past. So, if he continues to boast about being a Vietnam veteran, it will make the pictures more relevant.

Contrast that with G. W. Bush's youthful DUI charge, publicized shortly before the election. It was irrelevant, since Bush is well known to have been on the wagon for years. But it almost killed his campaign.

[jocon307]

"But it almost killed his campaign."

Man, that was close!

I think the Dems are making a big mistake if they think they can sell John Kerry, or Clark, or any of them as better on national security than Bush or any other republican. Time will tell if I was right, but it was one of my first thoughts during those incoherent hours of 9/11: there'll never be another democrat in the White House in my lifetime.

The dems are pitiful, they're running on a campaign out of the 1930s, they'd try running on their 60s stuff, but it's not fashionable right now. They are really repulsive, they don't have one half of one idea of how to do anything for anybody they just want to keep hold of the levers of power. They say that absolute power corrupts, how about power for its own sake, how corrupting is that?