There has been much discussion of reframing issues and of making sure that Bush and the Republicans get all the blame for every bad thing that happens for the next four years, and especially for the next two years until the 06 midterms.
One way to help that along is to create some sort of powerful and simple mechanism for dumping nastiness on the Republicans.
I'd like to suggest a political version of good cop, bad cop. In the ideal version of this, Kerry (for reasons which will become obvious) and some extremely pugnacious Democratic congressional attack dog would appear in a daily or weekly national television broadcast. That's not going to happen, but there are a number of scenarios short of that which might be effective. I'll go into those below the example that follows.
Attack Dem to the audience: "Bush's Republican allies in congress are trying to raise taxes on your healthcare."
Kerry (looking sad and ministerial): "Really?"
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