I'm not having much fun at all with this one. It has got me worried. If nothing else, it breaks our momentum and puts us on defense.
The other thing I worry about is if this is the "Mid-September" surprise, what are the RATs holding back for October? Hopefully, I am over-reacting and America will greet this news with a collective yawn, but I'm not so sure about that.
don't sweat it. I think the Dems have over-reached, again. Karl Rove sent them snarling to fill this week and next with whatever slime they could come up with. I mean it's laughable that Estrich lays out in her memo what the strategy is going to be.
Bottom line and I think you can see it in the state polls starting to come in. Nothing from 35 or 25 or 10 years ago on a personal level is going to trump kids being shot in the back and stabbed at their school.
It's clear in the minds of the voters in every poll that Bush pounds Kerry on national security and terrorism.
Kerry doesn't have a national platform left to move those numbers except for maybe 20 minutes at the debates.
The Dems chose to dance around today's security issues except for memorable lines like "every attack will be met with a swift reponse" and "we will hunt you down and kill you" and instead filled their convention with a week of celebrating a war they hated in '92.