Democrats like Terry McAuliffe and John Kerry have been calling Bush a deserter since February, and yet Bush maintains a professional and engaging strategy on the stump, challenging his opponent only on policy and his Senate record. As Kerry sinks further and further, he grasps at the reeds of personal attacks on Bush, hoping to pull himself up. That only works among the Bush-hating committed base. To everyone else, it reeks of panic and desperation, two qualities that no one likes in a Commander in Chief, especially during wartime. The battleground voters have discovered these problems in Kerry's character, and no amount of Guard bashing will reverse the trend.
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