Posted on 02/27/2004 8:11:33 AM PST by ConservativeStLouisGuy
RUSH: I have Anne Kornblut and Lyle Denniston here from today's Boston Globe, and this is honestly the headline. "In gay marriage stance, Bush tends to GOP." Subhead: His focus shifts to core supporters. Well, again, as I said yesterday, if Bush is going to start playing to his base, it's about time because his base, particularly on this issue, is a vast majority of the American people. But this story even decides to take a swipe at Bush for dividing the culture, because he said he wants to see The Passion.
This story actually accuses Bush of driving a wedge between the American people and using the culture war to divide this country simply because he says publicly he wants to see Mel Gibson's movie. Let me read to you, "In declaring his support for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, President Bush followed a developing pattern in his campaign - an emphasis on the 'conservative' part of his message rather than the 'compassionate' aspect he relied so heavily on in the 2000 race."
I read this stuff, and I want to start pulling out what little hair I've got. Anne Kornblut, by the way, she's just been hired by Fox, she shows up on Brit Hume's roundtable now and then, on his Special Report show every night at six o'clock. I've seen her on there the last couple weeks or so, and I knew who she was because I read her stuff here in the Boston Globe. What a presumptuous lead! What presumption. "In declaring his support for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Bush is placing an emphasis on the conservative part of his message rather than the compassionate".
Let me ask you something, Ms. Kornblut, whatever, however you pronounce it, Kornblut. For all the compassion that you cite that was in Bush's campaign and in his first years of his administration, what did it get him with you? What did it get him? What did all this so-called compassionate conservative get Bush? You still hate his guts, you hated his guts then, you don't like him now, you're trying to get rid of him now, you're trying to cut him off at the knees, slash his throat or what have you, and yet you have the audacity - and she's not the only one - you have the audacity to accuse Bush of abandoning compassion as he pursues his conservative base. So you conservatives out there, if you've had any doubt, let it now be told you are mean people, you are judgmental, you are intolerant, you have no compassion and Bush has finally proven it because he has to abandon compassion in order to reach out to you. "Bush advisors say that their decision on gay marriage was largely driven by current events." He probably would have refrained from speaking out so soon if they hadn't started violating the law everywhere about this. But then listen to this graph. "But in choosing to wade so deeply into the cultural divide, writes Ms. Kornblut, Bush also give a nod to the more than 45% of Americans who are likely to vote for him anyway, the same people in the evenly divided electorate to whom he reached out in his remarks before the Super Bowl last month, in his NASCAR visit to Florida, and in expressing his interest in seeing The Passion of The Christ."
Yes, my friends, you see Bush, according to Anne Kornblut of the Boston Globe, George Bush is dividing this country by going to the Daytona 500, by having an inspirational message for America before the Super Bowl, and for saying publicly he wants to see The Passion of the Christ. That, as far as liberals are concerned, is all you have to do to divide the culture. The president just has to go to Daytona, all he's got to do is go to the NASCAR races and say, "gentlemen, start your engines." What should he do, Ms. Kornblut, should he be out there flipping pancakes in Iowa, should he be out there eating hoagies in Philadelphia? What's he supposed to do? I mean, when the Democrats go start flipping flapjacks and eating hoagies - and, by the way, you know, when John Kerry eats a hoagie you can tell he's never had one in his hand. He doesn't know what one is. It was probably the more embarrassing moment of his life to have to eat a cheese steak hoagie. The fact that he asked for provolone on the thing is proof. He would barely touch it. I'd bet all of his friends up on Beacon Hill are still razzing him about eating that hoagie. Same thing when he tried to eat a hot dog somewhere, can you imagine somebody throwing a corn dog at him and say "here, take a bite out of this." I mean, ladies and gentlemen, let's get serious. You go flip flapjacks with a bunch of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire, and that's fabulous, that's reaching out to America. But go to the NASCAR race, say you want to see Mel Gibson's movie, and to the liberals, you are dividing America.
"In practical terms, Bush's stance toward gay marriage may not do much more than just illuminate the issue. History shows that presidents rarely influence the fate of constitutional amendments." All right, so why are you so worried about it then? The first half the story is, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, Bush is dividing the country, he wants an amendment on gay marriage! And then they follow it by saying, it usually doesn't matter what presidents do.
Folks, these people are urinating in their pants here. They are having bowel movements in their Depends diapers. These people are quaking in their boots. If you're going to get on the president for saying he wants to see a movie and accuse him of dividing the culture by doing that, and not say by the same token that violating the law openly and wantonly in San Francisco does not drive a wedge in the culture. Here's a guy who wants to see a movie, that's dividing the culture - what they're doing in San Francisco, New Mexico, want to do in Chicago, that's perfectly normal and healthy, and great for our culture. These people are sick. These people are absolutely just sick.
Let's see if she sticks around after November 2.
-PJ
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