Bush may be enjoying a modest bounce post-RNC but this week he’s going to take a beating.

Item A) New cocaine rumors surface.

The book published prior to the 2000 election that brought up allegations of Bush’s coke usage was not released by major publishing houses and slammed by the Bush camp as utterly untrue.

Cash-in biographer Kitty Kelly is publishing a book shortly that has the former sister-in-law of Bush quoted as saying current Bush did coke while Bush the Elder was in office, at Camp David no less. The book also says Laura Bush smoked pot, which might have contributed to her current affectless demeanor.

Item B) 1000th death in Iraq now official.

This week has been hell in Iraq and the insurgency there seems to be gaining in momentum and sophistication. This is Bush’s Achilles heel and his greatest strength, an odd paradox. Most Americans believe that he is the best leader to get us through Iraq, which is ironic as it deteriorates there, because it was Bush, and only Bush who put us there.

No reason for us to be dying in Iraq right now. It was a war of choice, it was the wrong choice (I’m not using the W stands for Wrong rhetoric of the Kerry campaign, I’ve been saying this since before the war) and it’s the wrong war.

Item C) Further National Guard questions

60 Minutes II should be running this Wed. night more revelations on Bush’s service in Texas, including an interview with the man who claims to have performed special services for Bush’s family to get Bush into the Guard.

Bush has always claimed he received no special privilege, even though he skipped almost 500,000 other young men waiting to serve in the Air National Guard. He also served with many other sons of privelege from the Dallas area, earning his unit the nickname the “Champagne Unit.” Honestly, it was all a coincidence.

Hopefully, people really start to see how disingenous, shady and utterly unfit to serve our current Commander-In-Chief is. Really, people, wake up!

By the way, my esteemed colleague has jumped the gun. Mr. Drudge ran a picture of Kerry holding a shotgun he claims was illegal. It is not. The issue is the style of the grip, which Drudge seems to think is a pistol grip. It is not.

Mr. Ver Standig, card-carrying member of the NRA not-with-standing, should have caught that.