I wonder where they got this idea? Not from the mainstream media calling him stupid etc. etc. right?
They simply could not believe that they were rejected by an American people that they felt they had "softened up" over their decades of power.
Of course, there is also 9-11. Black Tuesday enraged the Left, not because 3000 Americans were massacred, but because (as they themselves admitted), it solidified the President as a leader and a commander-in-chief in a way that their standard-bearer, Slick, never had. It also reinforced for many Americans how useless the Left is in matters of national security. Hence, their mad search for a Leftist candidate who ALSO had a band-aid of military service. Think Kerry and Clark. It must cause no end of teeth-grinding for them to now laud service that they once derided, in a war they opposed viciously.
They are HOPING that the American people, long united in their respect and affection for our military and its veterans, buy into Kerry's service as a means to get him into the White House.
That's why his post-Vietnam treasons and other disgusting actions must be made plain for all.