Republicans Might Go Negative?

Republicans Might Go Negative?

It's quite remarkable how John Kerry can almost simultaneously accuse President George W. Bush of being AWOL from his National Guard unit in Alabama, then whine that Republicans will be "going negative" in the election campaign.

"it's time for George W. Bush to call off his right-wing slime machine,'' declared Kerry's campaign, shortly after fellow Democrat Wesley Clark began spreading rumors about John Kerry's extramarital affairs.

Charles Krauthammer assembles a bit of effluent from the Democrats' slime machine. Here's a small sample.

First, that President Bush has "deceived'' (Al Sharpton), ``misled'' (John Kerry, Howard Dean), indeed, outright ``lied'' (Kucinich) us into a pointless and ruinous war that, as Kerry's chief campaign surrogate, Edward Kennedy, thunders, was ``made up in Texas'' for pure political advantage. Hence, Bush's hands are dripping with the blood of 500 brave soldiers who died for a lying president seeking better poll numbers.

It's a case of remarking the obvious, the is Charles Krauthammer after all, but it's worth reading the whole column.