CLINTON PUT POLICE ON THE STREETS. THE GOP REVOLVES THE DOOR BEFORE JAILTIME, EVEN ...
AS points out this poll, which suggests that the issue isn't "Bush", completely, it really is the GOP, which is how the Dems ought to be playing it, I think.
What good is it to drive Bush's poll rating even lower? He's not running again and the Lobsterfest up in Main on the weekend didn't produce Bush-Quayle to step in and replace/rescue Lil'Bush-Cheney.
Look, if Kate O'Biern comes out and says that the GOP have a branding problem, and you agree, then you have to advertise, to seize the moment and solidify the gains. Anger and outrage have to coalesce into fundraising and action items. (It's not enough to just issue condemnatory statements, is it?).
The DCCC is pounding home new ads on the troops. O.K., I guess.
They ought to be hitting the GOP square between the eyes in my opinion, on all three issues of the Reagan "Stool", as Romney likes to describe it.
What's more, now is the time to start. The Dems have a unique opportunity to take control of the GOP brand, if they are up to the task. These strategic ad campaigns do not happen in two months before an election. They require a sustained, continuous effort, over a period of months.