[Question_Assumptions]

Two reasons why attacks on President Bush's past are not going to work. (1) President Bush has had nothing but nice things to say about John Kerry's service in Vietnam and will look like a gentleman compared to what Kerry is now saying and (2) President Bush had a well-known life-changing conversion from a wild child into a responsible adult while John Kerry will still not appologize for the "wild child" elements of his own youth.

[dirtboy]

You left out the third reason - the New Media isn't going to let the Old Media get away with ignoring the truth and reporting the lies. And that, more than anything else, has neutered the Democrats this year.

[nikos1121]

And of course, Susan, we're to believe that you're a tea toteler. I'm sure after one or two you have the lamp shade on your head and you're slobbering over some guys ear on the stool next to you.

This lady is supposed to be a college professor. I can get better political insight from a cab driver.

I think, actually Kerry's handlers were right. He should have kept quiet about the SVFT. As many of us here can attest, we watched the controversy unfold here a few weeks ago, starting when Kerry made reference to it in one of his speeches. It would have been a tempest in a tea pot if he chose to forget it. I mean before he said anything, none of the major news media covered it.

nick