Do you really believe that the "group of folks" running Bush's campaign would have given someone with "less baggage" more of a break in the covering-with-slime area?
I don't believe that for a second. And when a candidate can weather the shitstorm and come out the other side looking like a silver dollar to the other guys wooden nickel (and he did, especially during the three debates) it makes you respect him all the more.
The whiney flip-flopping indecisive one with the reeking baggage is not the Democrat.
Giovanni