Right on cue...

He puts it well here. The long-expected October surprise effort is headed right for us. It will only confirm folks on the Left who are fond of the last refuge of the reluctant loser: “Well…BOTH sides have been doing a lot of this kind of thing,” which is nothing more than a sophisticated attempt at making two wrongs equal a right. Then they can vote for Kerry despite the very obvious personal, libelous and bitter nature of the attacks on Bush with the cover of, “Kerry’s just doing what was done to him.” Never mind that the Left started the bitter accusations against Bush from Day One. Never mind that Bush has never said the things of such a ridiculously personal nature about Kerry that Kerry has said about him. Never mind that anti-Bush rabble-rousers have been saying things for 4 years now that have been nearly unheard of in American politics of recent history. Even still, Bush somehow managed to come out on top so he feels vindicated in his approach that he’s taken all along, i.e., “new tone”, celebrating your bitterest enemies as great presidents (ala his Clinton comments), and letting the most vitriolic and vicious of your political enemies write key legislation that angers your base.

So here comes the “big media” to the rescue for Kerry. They’ve got to work overtime to try and kill the “bounce” and bring the polls down to parity so they have a chance to cheat and say they won. If they can’t cheat, it will be said that the GOP stole the election. Either way, they win. This is a cultural/spiritual/ideological fight to the death and I’m just not convinced that the Republicans have the will to fight it properly.