Ron - With Kerry on board we had a race between oil and ketchup. It was obviously a fix, or the Bush campaign would have hit upon the idea of talking about the 57 varieties of John Kerry. They didn't, so we know there was something up with that.

                Dean, on the other hand, offered a change from buffoonery.

                Kerry thought he could promote himself as a war hero, but he walked into the onslaught of the swift-boaters. It was like they saw it coming--they knew where Kerry was going before Kerry did. The race was only about national security because Kerry's people made it about national security, and then didn't even write any ads about George Bush being AWOL from the air national guard.

                Frankly, I don't see any way Dean could have done worse, and I think he would have done better.