COULD IT HAVE GONE LIKE THIS?

We have no evidence, but that hasn't stoped us yet.

(setting: The Bush campaign war room.)

KAREN HUGHES: I don't think we can run the wolf-pack ad.

KARL ROVE: Why in the hell not?

HUGHES: Well, the president is on record saying, "Anyone who thinks we are fighting a metaphor does not understand the enemy we face"

ROVE: And?

HUGHES: Well, aren't those wolves sort of a metaphor?

ROVE: Don't worry about it. Most Americans understand that the president is a moron.