Dems have been the leaders in nasty campaigning this year. Bush is the more positive candidate.
This year alone, Democratic candidates, senators and former senators have accused Republicans or Bush of "reopening Saddam's torture chambers," of "viciousness," of being "the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon," of being "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen," of running a "right-wing slime machine," of being "a phony through and through," of having "declared war on the middle class."
Sen. Kerry said Bush was actually "attacking the weak." Sen. Kennedy last year accused the president of "bribing" foreign leaders for a war that was "a fraud made up in Texas."
Worst of all, said Gen. Wesley Clark, "Our president wasn't patriotic." Rich Lowry of National Review notes that in May, Teresa Heinz Kerry called Dick Cheney "unpatriotic." Sen. Bob Graham has said that Bush's Iraq policy was "anti-patriotic at the core." New York Rep. Nita Lowey has called Republicans "unpatriotic" for cutting taxes. When Whoopi Goldberg and other celebrities called Bush a "liar," a "cheap thug" and a "killer," John Kerry not only listened to it all, in person, but he then called those same celebrities the "heart and soul" of our country.
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