In This article we see many of the symptoms currently causing cog slippage in the Left.

The constant distortion of John Kerry's record, a drizzle of deceit that eventually soaks the listener in a fat, wet lie, is not to be admired. But the reasons for it are a different matter entirely.

...Kerry, triumphant and accepting the nomination with a smart (but silly) salute, has been disparaged as a phony who lied about his combat record and then came home from war to smear his buddies.

This is a Category Five lie, one so immense and brazen it almost compels you to wonder whether there is an element of truth to it.

I am seeing this everywhere. "Everything bad anyone has said about Kerry is a lie." Everything. All the veterans are liars. All the officers and other witnesses are liars. It's all lies. Say it often enough, maybe everyone will believe it.

Even discounting everything ever said about Kerry's Vietnam tour, can Cohen rationally declare that what Kerry said and did upon his return on behalf of the anti-war movement never happened?

...The Bush campaign knows what it is doing. Bush is a minority president, elected with less than half the votes, and often 50 percent still eludes him in the polls. The campaign is engaged in hand-to-hand combat for just enough votes -- a mandate of one, if need be. It is infused with such a sense of righteousness that, like the Crusaders of old, it can commit atrocity after atrocity on the way to Jerusalem. All that matters is the goal. God understands.

Leftists are, as has been mentioned elsewhere, still insane over Florida. Clinton was elected with less than half the popular vote both times. Nobody cared. And apparently the fact that Bush has a real religion, instead of the carrying-a-Bible-to-a-blowjob fake religion that leftist politicians have to adopt to get elected in America, still grates on them. Doesn't take much pushing to bring that out, either.

You're going to see some real raving in the next few weeks, especially if the polls hold up.