Imagine you are in an airplane that is about to crash.
A ratty old parachute (Bush)
A fine French bedsheet that sorta looks like a parachute (Kerry)
A sales brochure for the perfect parachute (third party)
Earlier today, I ran across a minute long commercial for Fahrenheit 9/11 on TV. Out of nothing more than morbid curiosity I threw away sixty seconds of my life and watched. What really struck me is that every time Bush was shown, it was a scene of him being funny. It was presented in a way to give the impression that he's not very bright, or perhaps a pawn of big, evil corporations.
Despite the clever editing, I found myself laughing with Bush, not at him. Did I ever feel dumb! I couldn't even follow along with the spoon fed anti-Bush propaganda. I must just be a slow learner.
Or maybe I know something liberals don't. For whatever bad you could say about the President, he's a very genuine person. If you show a tape of him while he's being witty and charming, you simply can't edit that out. At best, you can present it as sinister and insincere, but for that to succeed relies on the naivete of the individual viewer.
Anyone who can't see his way past F/911s emotional insincerities wouldn't stand a chance of seeing his way past any intellectual ones. Regardless of what you think of his policies, Bush is a good man. If you can't see that for yourself, you'll probably believe anything bad about him.