Reply #41: Agreed, but it's not a plan

[troublemaker]

just another Smitian 'Invisible Hand'

The rules are different during elections. The President is always reduced to just another candidate. Lots of media people have been holding their fire for years waiting for campaign season to start. Since then it's been a bloodbath.

The media if fully prepared to install Kerry. They were unwilling to install Dean, so Dean was assassinated by the media. That's how it works... but there's never a meeting or even conversation. The process is the sum of thousands of individual agendas.