No wonder the simpleton thinks it's a wash. He's being brainwashed by the Party which does that so well. Remember this:
O'REILLY: Why don't you run down the strengths and weaknesses of the Republican Party as you see them.
MAHER: Well, obviously, the strength is their ability to turn mistruth into something people would believe -- the way they can turn anything into a wash, like they're doing now with Kerry's military record. I mean, Bush has a pretty indefensible military record, especially for someone who's running as a war president.
But they're able to muck up John Kerry's record, spin it, tarnish it to the point where people go, "Hey, you know what? There's some crazy stuff about Bush in the war, and there's some crazy stuff about Kerry. It's a wash." That's what they do well.