Do you really not understand why John Kerry doesn't want to take on that particular elephant? Take a gander here [link|http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/John_Kerry.htm|http://www.issues200...te/John_Kerry.htm]
Go here for the condensed version [link|http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=S0421103|http://www.vote-smar...p?can_id=S0421103]
Back to that "elephant". Bush can look him in the eye and say, "sir, you saw the same intelligence and did nothing different. Did you just turn stupid and forget or are you shamelessly pandering?" See, the problem is, they are yin and yan... Yaley's... Frat brothers. It would be the pot calling the kettle black.
I have a feeling that the Repos are really going to turn on the heat in the next two Pres debates, given that it will be extremely easy to paint him as a "tax and spend" liberal... His voting record in the senate is easy fodder for the next few debates. It's kind of funny, but the Dems were "most worried" about Kerry appearing "tough on terrorists, etc..." They've assumed that he will carry the Midwest middle class with the same tired rhetoric from the '50's. Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, et al are not the union strongholds that they once were. It's going to be interesting in the next few weeks. It will be great entertainment to watch Cheney intellectually "bend over" Edwards and have his way with him.
I still got 2 - 1 odds on the incumbent...