Bush digs deep in attack on Kerry. Will the desperation heave work with enough idiots?

How low will they go? Apparently there is no depth of slime for which the Republicans and George Bush have enough decency not to reach. The idea that John Kerry was insulting the troops in Iraq is beyond absurd. The mere suggestion that anyone in this country would do that or believes that, much less someone who actually saw combat himself, is sick.

What’s the real story here? Not whether Kerry was suggesting such a thing, but that Bush is so desperate and so utterly lacking in principle that he would use the troops he has abused so badly for political gain in this manner. Truly disgusting.

A side story is the extent to which CNN and other supposedly objective media channels are willing to prostrate themselves and serve as pure shills for the Republican National Committee. The sorry level of relentless character assassination to which political campaigning by the Republican Party has descended, fueled by hundreds of amoral right-wing-funded post-graduate elves hunkering in darkened rooms scouring words by the thousands for nuggets of language they can twist into an attack on Democrats -- is a gigantic threat to this country. The sorriest part of the spectacle is that it has been enabled by pusillanimous media minions who are a disgrace to the very concept of a free press.