Reply #1: I am mystified by how desperate the Republicans are...

[QuidditchFan]

they must know something via their internal polling mechanisms that we don't know. I wonder if they have built in a post-debate Kerry bounce in their calculations, because certainly they are going to get a one or two point bounce from their convention. Might they know that there is more bad economic news on the horizon?

The Republican talking points, imho, are so lame and ineffective and unstatesmanlike. Usually, isn't it the surrogates rather than the principals that are slinging mud?

Truthfully, though all of the lies and mischaracterizations over the past couple of days have sickened me on some level, on another level, it gives me insight into just how desperate they are.