McCain Says Kerry Not Weak on Defense

The Bush campaign wants to dumb down the issues. They don't want people to think about the nature of Congressional debate. Thankfully, there are still Republicans like Sen. McCain who don't believe it's necessary to resort to this sort of pandering.

It's no conincidence that the Bush campaign hasn't responded to Sen. Kerry's call for a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. Obviously it's because they know the president would fail if he had to operate outside of soundbite style "gotcha" politics.