IGNITE THE COUCHSITTERS, QUIT FIXATING ON THE UNDECIDEDS

Preach on, Arianna.

The 2004 election is nothing less than a referendum on the soul of our country -- a political event with unprecedented significance for our lives and the lives of our children. The Kerry campaign cannot allow it to devolve into a debate over whether John Kerry bled enough to warrant a Purple Heart.

And since no one can doubt that more scurrilous attacks are coming Kerry's way, it is imperative that in the future the right answers to all wrong questions be offered immediately. And not for one moment should they cause the Kerry campaign to relinquish its attacks on the president's failures at home and abroad or cloud its alternative moral vision of what America can be with George Bush safely back in Crawford.

This is all the more important since, sadly, the media will continue to make no distinctions in the volume and content of their coverage between true claims and false ones.