The problem the Dems and their media cohorts have selling Kerry's "good ole boy, cow-milking, tractor-driving, shotgun-toting" image, is Kerry.
Ron Brownstein of the LA Times takes a deep draught of the DNC kool-aid and glosses over Kerry's blue-blood and Teresa's billion+ as he retreads the infamous scanner story that tarnished Bush 43rd's image.
Instead, the greatest threat to Bush may come if the cumulative picture of his Guard experience — from Barnes' claim of intervention to the questions about whether superiors winked at irregular attendance — portrays him as a son of privilege who has enjoyed advantages unavailable to most Americans. That's potentially dangerous because polls show many voters already question whether Bush understands the problems of average families.
Apparently Kerry isn't connecting on this issue quite as firmly as Brownstein would have his readers believe.
Jim Geraghty notes: Actually, the ABC/Washington Post poll shows Bush leads on this question over Kerry 44 to 43, after trailing 46 to 42 in July and 56 to 36 in June.
Kerry is very foolish to start down this path as the Bush lineage pales in comparison to John Forbes Kerry's background on his mother's side. Senator Kerry's father; Richard Kerry married Rosemary Forbes, a descendant of two wealthy and established Massachusetts families, the Forbes and the Winthrops. The senator, John Forbes Kerry had an upbringing commensurate with privilage and wealth–attending exclusive European boarding schools as well as private school in New Hampshire. He attended Yale at about the same time as President George W. Bush--both belonged to the elite secret Skull & Bones society.
The LA Times wouldn't recognize the truth if it were shoved under their door in triplicate.
(via The Kerry Spot)