Industrial-strength hypocrisy

Washington Times ^ | 2/17/04

[kattracks]

Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards have been engaged in an intense competition in recent months to become the Democratic Party's most aggressive "anti-special interest" candidate. Mr. Kerry repeatedly claims to be "the only senator who has been elected four times, voluntarily refusing to take one dime of political action committee special interest money." Mr. Edwards claims to have "never taken a dime from a Washington lobbyist." A dime here, a dime there. To borrow a phrase from George Wallace, there's "not a dime's worth of difference" between the two presidential candidates in terms of their extraordinary financial dependence on the special interests they purport to despise.

[BackInBlack]

John Edwards, a wealthy trial lawyer, and John Kerry, husband of one of America's richest women, are themselves essentially special interests. Let's stop kidding ourselves -- raising money in Washington without getting in bed with special interests (though I admit I'm not quite sure what that means) is a tough thing to do. For the two Johns to pretend that they're above it is a little absurd.