You make it sound like Bush had a smooth and easy ride in 2004, unopposed by Kerry or anyone else (like the press). Somehow, I don't remember it that way.

Wish I could dig up some old posts on the Kerry-Bush debates. There may have been some posts from Democrats here who declared that Bush kicked Kerry's ass around the stage, while Kerry failed to make his points, but if there were, I don't remember them.

The Democrats and their media buttmonkeys threw everything they had at Bush, much of it recycled from 2000. Negative stories on Kerry showed up in the mainstream media only after the media were dragged there kicking and screaming by the alternative media (see also: Clinton), and then only to shoot those stories down.

I will concede that Kerry sucked as a potential Commander in Chief, and frankly, I think that was what cost him the election more than any virtue Bush possessed.

I still say Leiberman would have won.