Dear Editors:There was one more thing I wanted to add but I didn't think the Post would print it. Kerry and Edwards' ploy had to include the calculation that the mainstream press would NOT call them on it. They relied on the double standard against Republicans. In a fair world, that would cause some soul searching in MSM newsrooms.Senator Kerry hit a low point when he gratuitously referred to the private life of V.P. Cheney's daughter. His campaign says she is "fair game". But, she campaigns for her father as a loving daughter, nothing more. She does not campaign as a member of an interest group. Given the fact that the senator's running mate also raised the issue leads me to conclude this was no passing reference. It was apparently an ugly pre-planned strategy.
Elsewhere in the debate, Senator Kerry decried how divided the country has become. But he was the one who crossed the line into unprovoked divisiveness by invoking a private family matter. Apparently, there is no line he won't cross for political gain.
Re your post about homeschooling - I had to laugh at the notion of my symphony musician sister, who homeschools her girls (ages 4 and 8) and cans her own garden produce, as a domestic terrorist taking over school buses and the like! I'm so sick of the complaint that home-schooled kids get no "socialization." If you mean they don't learn to cuss like sailors by the time they're 6 or they do nothing but watch TV and play violent video games with other kids, I guess so. But both my nieces have lots of friends at church and in their neighborhood, the older one (a dead ringer for a young Liz Taylor, by the way) was picked to be in "Nutcracker" with the Pittsburgh Ballet this year, and - darn it all - they know the difference between right and wrong. Yes, we have a real problem with those two.