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One day, Laura is a Stepford Wife, the next, she is a pot-smoking round heels. A few months ago, someone tried to float the rumor via an article somewhere (or maybe it was a leak of this book?), that Laura and George were the only 2 members of their class still unmarried when they met at a BBQ and they only got married because no one else would have them. Just months prior, Blount, the AL candidate whose campaign W was working on (under Atwater) was interviewed as part of the AWOL story and Blount called W a dirty name implying he was sleeping/seducing every woman in sight, yet now they say he couldn't work up the nerve to approach a woman unless he was loaded.

I think we can safely say the present strategy is Both Sides Now.

IMO, this is trash, but it is trash that humanizes the Bushes. I doubt there is more than 10% of the electorate who has not tried drugs and fewer who don't know people who did and have since cleaned up their act. W himself does not deny who he was and what he did or how he changed and why.

After 4 campaigns, if this recycled slander is all they can do, plus bringing up ANG/Abu Ghraib, it means they have nothing. The DUI smear worked once. It will not work again and that is borne out by how miserably Mulholland failed to bring down Arnold with the groping smears. It isn't about whether any politician or their family is perfect or hypocritical, it is a referendum on the job W has done and the type of leader we want and need for the next 4 years. The bounce shows W has done well and is preferred over Kerry.