Tim Grieve has a great article over at Salon (warning, annoying ad must be watched) about how we shouldn't abandon hope for Senator Kerry just yet. One paragraph stood out to me.
"With no one backing him up, Kerry is too often seen scrambling back and forth to rebut Bush-Cheney charges, looking for all the world like an overmatched tennis player racing from one end of the court to the other in a desperate attempt to return all the drives. It's a trap that the Bush-Cheney campaign has laid for Kerry, and he has fallen into it. "The Republicans are very good at lobbing spit wads to see what sticks," said Richards [Ann Richards, the former Texas governor], no stranger herself to smears from Bush and Karl Rove. "Kerry has got to answer every single one of them, because if you don't then the media will claim that he isn't answering the attacks. And then when he does answer all of them, the media will say that he has no message."
But the article goes on to suggest that we are still very early in the campaign, and, to misquote John Paul Jones, he has not yet begun to fight.
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