[Southack]

I've got a couple of problems with these scandals.

For one thing, this is the wrong time to be piling on. Senator Kerry is far too close to being dumped by his Party. Yet he's such an easy candidate for us to beat that we should be holding our fire, I think, until at least after their Boston convention.

For another thing, we don't *need* a scandal to beat Senator Kerry. His own voting record, flip-flops, and failure to have even a single policy of his own enacted into law in his multiplie Senate terms spell D E F E A T for the Dems.

We don't have to be like the Dems. They have no new ideas. All that they can do is to be negative.

But we've got tax cuts, killing the ABM treaty, killing Kyoto, a successful war on terror, and a booming economy for our track record in the past, as well as faith based charities, deploying our national missile defense system, and private school choice vouchers as positive agendas for moving forward in the future.

So we don't *need* to depend upon Senator Kerry's numerous scandals. We can be above this fray. We can beat them based solely upon our ideas, rather than on scandals.

[Travis McGee]

If they pull a well-timed "Toricelli Switcheroo," who is their Lautenburg who can "save" the 'rats and win the Whitehouse?

Hillary?

[prairiebreeze]

So we don't *need* to depend upon Senator Kerry's numerous scandals. We can be above this fray. We can beat them based solely upon our ideas, rather than on scandals.

Southack, I have to agree. I just listened to the video clip and frankly, it just sounded like sensational reporting from FoxNews. Even though the anchor did a good job with contrasting the guests point by presentingpositive aspects of Kerry's military service, it really just sounded a lot like a Michael Jackson/Kobi Bryant story.

Which could just be chalked up to poor taste on the part of the media, except that the RATS tie all these stories to the Republicans and there comes a point where the public will start feeling sympathy for the victim.

I don't think Bush/Cheney has actually pushed this subject, but I do think they'd better be careful to tread very lightly.

All that said, the real story about John Kerry's post Nam days isn't the medals, but what he testified to the Senate committee, his dealings with Hanoi and his involvment in VVAW and their schemes. If/when those stories come out, I think we will see Kerry topple like Saddam's statue, but as for now we shouldn't hope that he topples too soon.

Prairie

[NYC Republican]

I agree that we don't need these scandals, but it's SKerry that's bringing them up, not our side.