Uh, Karl, this is gonna be harder than we thought.
Daniel RadoshWow. Look at these headlines. For more than a year, the Bush team has been kicking back thinking that all they'd need to do when the election rolled around was remind people of 9/11. I wonder if they even have a plan B.
Machiavellian Update: Gersh thinks Team Bush wanted the backlash. That the goal all along was not to run a campaign based on the themes in the ads themselves but on the how-dare-you-question-my-integrity, if-it-we're-up-to-you-we'd-all-be-speaking-Iraqi-right-now response to the criticism.