It would seem that just a few Bush supporters, are smart enough to be embarassed by this pretending not to understand and appreciate “nuance”. It is not uncertainty. But that seems to be the strategy of the Bush campaign, and frankly, I’d be embarassed to have to defend this insistence that “nuances” be eliminated. Another example of the “dumbing down” of the public by those wonderfully articulate Bush people.

Brit admits that Bush is ‘stretching.’ But at the great Times, he’s just “shrewd”

John Kerry? He’s much too “nuanced.” It’s a standard RNC talking-point and there it is, nicely placed in a headline in today’s New York Times:
NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE For Now, Bush’s Mocking Drowns Out Kerry’s Nuanced Explanation of His War Vote
No, it doesn’t get better than that: to get your spin-point right in a headline. But how dumb is your press corps willing to be?

It’s hard to believe that any grown person could pretend that this is complex or confusing. But that’s the official RNC line—Kerry is simply filled with nuance—and obliging scribes are typing it up, pretending this claim makes good sense. One of those puzzled scribes is Sanger, who scratches his head in today’s piece about Kerry’s “nuanced explanation.”

It seems to me that “nuanced” is an intelligent person’s term