The Post actually does a detailed job of looking at the lies and negativity in "a typical week in the life of the Bush reelection machine." Beyond all the helpful analysis of these lies and saturation of the lies throughout the machine and the Republican surrogates throughout the country, came this nugget:

Scott Reed, who ran Robert J. Dole's presidential campaign that year, said the Bush campaign has little choice but to deliver a constant stream of such negative charges. With low poll numbers and a volatile situation in Iraq, Bush has more hope of tarnishing Kerry's image than promoting his own. "The Bush campaign is faced with the hard, true fact that they have to keep their boot on his neck and define him on their terms," Reed said. That might risk alienating some moderate voters or depressing turnout, "but they don't have a choice," he said.

Ah, so sad, it's true, the Bush campaign has nothing left these days except to push more and more negative attacks against Kerry. They have nothing to promote or showcase any longer. All their plans for positive images and messages (Iraq, 'mission accomplished,' sept. 11/terrorism, education and Medicare reforms, the economy/tax cuts, etc.) have blown up in their face over the last year and they have nothing, nothing, nothing positive to promote any longer. They only can go negative. And that means, they're losing and they know it. They still have the ability, in the next 5 months to change everything, and we never know what might happen in those 5 months, but it's getting harder and harder for them to win as each day goes by. And they know it too.