On Monday, the Bush campaign released its latest campaign ad, called “Intel.” Looking at its name, one would think the ad lays out the president's plans for intelligence reform or touts his administration's record on preventing terrorist attacks. But it doesn't. Rather, the ad attacks John Kerry for allegedly missing 76 percent of the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and proposing to slash the federal intelligence budget by $6 billion. It ends on a personal note, declaring that, “there's what Kerry says, and then there's what Kerry does.” This comes days after Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- a technically independent group -- accused Kerry of lying to win medals in Vietnam in an ad that makes the infamous Willie Horton spot look like an ad for Snuggles detergent. Meanwhile this week on the stump, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney continued to deride Kerry as a flip-flopper, out of the mainstream, and clouded by his own convoluted positions...