GW Bush has a DWI from 3 decades ago and bottom feeders blast fax it? Maybe someone ought to blast fax a few Democrat issues?
Remember, the typical voter doesn't get very far past the headlines. The headlines were reading "Bush Arrested for DWI". Only if you took the time to read the story did you find out it was 30 years ago.
It was well known that Bush not only had a drinking problem, but that he was pretty wild (pary wise) earlier in his life. A DWI fit right in with that pattern. He had turned around his life and put all that behind him. The headline put doubts in some people's minds that he had really put all that behind him (because there was no time frame of when the DWI occurred in the headline.)
Had the Bush people put all that on the table early in the campaign, it would have been a non-issue.