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Dick Morris is a a political player. He tries to say what he thinks his audience wants to hear. He hopes to make the reader think, I told Bush what to do last week and now he is doing it. One other point .... Morris's bull crap about defining a candiate early in the campaign is pure Barbara Streisand.

Was President Bush defined when he was beating Kerry by 20 points in December of last year. Was President Bush undefined when he was 5 points behind Kerry a few weeks ago? The only time it is worth a warm pitcher of spit to be ahead is on election day. There is nothing that the Democrats would love better than for Bush to shoot his best shots now. Then Kerry would have months to live the charges down. They would be old news in the last week of October?

Do you think the Gore people knew about Bush's DUI in the spring of 2000? Why didn't they define bush with the DUI charge in the spring. Why did they wait to shoot the DUI charge against Dubya a week before the election? The define em now thing is pure bull.

Bush being ahead now or behind is nothing ...Being ahead now is worse than being behind if all the ammo against Kerry is shot this spring to put bush ahead in the Spring.

Anyone with a measure of knowledge of the real world, knows that Bush will hold his best shots until after the Republican convention. That is when Bush will attempt to destroy the French looking guy. That is the only time there is a reaon to destroy the French looking guy.

Bush and Rove would have to be as stupid as Dick morris thinks his readers are, to take Kerry out now. But even if Bush did destory Kerry now, what would the Democrats do? The answer is in three words...REMEMBER THE TORCH...

If Bush were to totally destory Kerry now, the Democrats would not just sit by and let him lose..,. any more than they sat by and let the TORCH lose.

Bush needs to get ahead a bit ... but not so much as to remove Kerry as the Democratic candidate.

Oh here is another thing to think about. Kerry will be a lot easier to beat than Dean. Dean did not have 19 years of voting record. Dean had never sided with our enemies while at war. Dean had never taken extreme positions. And Dean did not curse secret service men.

Rove was constantly leaking that he was wishing for Dean. But if you want to know the truth ... Rove was hoping for Kerry. But if Bush wanted to run against Kerry he needed to tell everyone he wanted to run against Dean and feared Kerry.

It is along time until election day in November. Bush and Rove will not shoot their best ammo, until after the Republican convention.

If you liked Mondale for an opponent, you are going to love John Kerry.

You make good points, although your rhetoric is a bit overstated. However you contradict yourself somewhat. First you say it makes no difference what the polls state, and then you state Bush needs to get a little ahead. These are contradictory. The latter idea is correct.

It is important for Bush to get ahead for a couple of reasons. First of all, people like to support a winner. If Bush is perceived as the inevitable winner, this will help him gain undecideds. A sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. A second reason is that it will encourage Nader votes to vote for Nader (they'll be more likely to vote for Nader if they think Bush will win anyway, which will help Bush win by a larger margin). A third reason is if Bush can gain a solid lead, the press will have to report that Bush is ahead.

So you're right, it is important for Bush to be ahead. You're also right that they would be foolish to expend too much amunition early on.