Isn't it ironic that the Repukes whined about Clinton stealing Kerry's

[Catherine Vincent]

thunder as he campaigns for the presidency. But as it turns out Reagan dies and steals all the thunder (of whatever was there) from chimpy as he campaigns for re-selection.

[JI7]

1. Clinton himself will campaign and promote Kerry, Bush will use a dead man

for his own political gain.

[SoFlaJet]

3. What's ironic to me

is there's GWB over there in Europe trying to look"international"and RR goes and kix da bucket usurping all the effort.HA

[sundancekid]

2. poetic justice, I say ... also, all this mourning time is giving several

DISADVANTAGES to dimson: 1) even the media whores are being forced into revealing some of the "non-saint" aspects of Reagan policies and Reagan's own "flip-flops"; and, more importantly, the more dimson tries to look like Reagan's political son, the more the contrast between the two serves only to DIMINISH what's left of dimson's "stature."

[Solly Mack]

4. They whined about it in order to make it true

it was the republicans attempt to make Clinton's book more a focal point than Kerry's campaigning...so they do what they do best... sent talking points around hoping to make Clinton's book a bigger news item than Kerry...and whined about it on every radio/tv/news station they could.

Anytime you're out of the news, you're effectively out of the mind of would be voters. So if Clinton could get the most news, then Kerry would have been on the back-burner...and that is what republicans want...Kerry getting as little news coverage as possible.

There's also the association factor..."Clinton steals Kerry steam"...Clinton-Democrat...Kerry...Democrat.....and possible voters for Kerry, who didn't vote for Clinton ,are swayed.

Whereas:

They want Bush linked to Reagan and for Bush to ride Reagan' coat-tail of mythical proportions...

Some swing voters will just hear Bush speak about a man, (Reagan) , that they did vote for..and think maybe Bush isn't all that bad.

I'm not saying ti changes the mind of voters who are soldily one way or the other...but it does help with those people who place their votes based on some other factor.