Curse of '73

Ken "the talking point action figure" Mehlman was on with Wolf yesterday, and spun his usual web of nonsense. He was faced with republicans attacking president Bush over his role in Virgina. (transcript)

BLITZER: Look at this headline that was in today's -- right over there -- in today's "Washington Times." "Bush 'sank' GOP in Virginia" written by David Albo, who says, "We know that George Bush is just killing us. His popularity just brought the ticket down. There's no other way to explain it."

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MEHLMAN: Look, the fact is, one thing we know about the Virginia election, and that is in Virginia elections, the curse of 1973 continues. 1973 was the last time that the White House party won the governor's race. Every election after that -- in the 2001 election, the president hat 90 percent approval and we lost

Authenticity backed on Bush documents. After CBS News on Wednesday trumpeted newly discovered documents that referred to a 1973 effort to ''sugar coat" President Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, the network almost immediately faced charges that the documents were forgeries, with typography that was not available on typewriters used at that time. But specialists interviewed by the Globe and some other news organizations say the specialized characters used in the documents, and the type format, were common to electric typewriters in wide use in the early 1970s, when Bush was a first lieutenant.