don't do defence!

What's wrong with those democrats? Kerry's made that perfectly harmless - if unfunny - remark. And Now? He's busy apologizing and explaining! The question is: to whom?
The truth is that absolutely nobody could have found his remark offensive. Those who say they do, are either republican trained mud slingers or Rove's henchmen. It's all spin and every remotely sane American know it. (I hope!)
Here's what's happening: It's a well documented feature of Rove's political strategy to attack the opponent's strong points rather than their weaknesses. Furthermore they need a target that is big enough to 'damage' the entire democratic party team. To their line of thinking Kerry's the perfect man for the job. And - as we have seen - they have successfully mobilized the far right.
But the point here is that these people are not potential voters for the democrats so from a campaigning point of view they are totally unimportant. Democrats should focus their efforts on people whose views are centrist or moderate republicans. People who've found that Bush and/or republican lawmakers have let them down. That shouldn't be too hard!