Ron, propoganda and advertising are one and the same. Some of the main movers and shakers in the GOP come from the advertising world.
A candidate is sold just like any other product. I. too, wish it were not so but I can't ignore history.
Every once in a blue moon, we elect a good president and it is amazing that we do so, so often. Well, maybe this war will do to the Republicans what Viet Nam did to LBJ but they survived 2004 so, who knows.

                   Mike