Reply #100: yes, definitely. When you look at Bush as a candidate

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what do you have? An ex-drunk, coke brain, failed businessman, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, can't handle a sentence of more than 10 words without screwing something up, a radical right idiot who wants to take benefits form the average American, a man who started a USELESS war, etc who lies, lies, lies, he's destroying the environment, the economy,etc. Rove took that piece of walking trash and turned it into a Prez (with moral values, flipflopping, etc)against excellent good Democrat candidates TWICE.

Rove is the best political marketing strategist around. He knows what plays. The Dem strategists were playing with themselves when the swifties were hitting hard. This isn't hindsight; I said the same when it was happening. I remember when the swiftie stuff was going on and some people on these boards were saying, oh the Dem campaign has a plan, when they are going to do something. I actually wrote to the Kerry campaign a few times telling them what to do, how to fix the mess they were in, not that they would listen to me. I wonder how many people wrote to the Kerry campaign back then. I bet thousands of people.