Posted on 10/14/2004 5:56:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
Maybe it has something to do with a certain senate race.
Bush wouldn't have to resign, they would be calling for his impeachment and proceedings would have already started.
Equally disgusting was Edwards wife stating that they must be ashamed! That is a message to the gay community of course, and she should have been slapped!
I thought that Cheney's response showed his complete contempt and anger. I thought he said the little that he said because if he'd said anymore it wouldn't have been prudent. I could see that Cheney was spitting fire and I saw Edwards flinch.
We are not innocent, just forgiven.
Mrs. Cheney was bashed here, but only long enough for us to realize that was the wrong side to be on.
No one has mentioned anything negative about her since, that I have seen.
This is stabbing, and then having your buddy twist the knife in the back.
tag-team jerry springer show.
Ah HA!! I KNEW it!! Halliburton makes wheelchairs!! That's why they want this war, too! So more disabled veterans will need wheelchairs!!!
No, Cheney was very smart in handling Edwards' dig about Mary which had been slyly framed as a compliment. Cheney let a few seconds go by to make sure everyone understood he was upset, then he quietly thanked Edwards for his 'gracious comments' about his family. Tick...tick...tick...and the moderator told Cheney there was time left, did he care to say more? Cheney said NO. Everyone saw through Edwards. A few days later, Kerry proceeds with Plan A., attack GW on the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage...so he trots out the same ploy, and again names Mary Cheney...A LESBIAN...underlined, so even the dumbest Christian conservative would sit up and take notice. But just as he started down this path, you could see Kerry realize he'd just put his foot in it, big time. There was no way to say this without revealing what a putz he is, no fig leaf to hide behind. He had to finish the sentence and did, but he knew it had been a defining moment of his candidacy.
That and his statement about TerAYsa's money at the end, 'marrying up, way way up' and giggling. God, everyone knew he meant money beyond his wildest dreams. How could he say, I'd love her anyway, even if she didn't have three billion bucks? Nobody'd believe him, so he couldn't even say he loved her for her peanut butter cookies. Instead, he veered off into a feeble lie about his mother on her deathbed mumbling 'Integrity' three times. Her last words, we are supposed to believe. As someone said earlier, that's because she knew he didn't have any.
Yeah and all that Grapolla about his mother and Integrity was made up BS to try and influence the CC
Wonder how many suckers fell for it
There are layers and layers of manipulation going on. Several political talking heads on Fox agreed today that the comments had been planned ahead of time, coordinated, and the aim was to scare the Bush camp and to keep down the Christian conservative vote. This makes sense. Anything that works. Not long ago, Pat Robertson put out a statement that he'd tell his flock to stay home on election day if GW pulled support for Israel. Maybe Carville thought, hey, this might just work. How can we use it against GW? Ah, Mary Cheney!
Folks, the overwhelming majority of us on the right side of the political divide thought Bill Clinton was terrible. But this guy Kerry will make Clinton look like a great president. Heck, Kerry will make Jimmy Carter look like a centrist and rock-solid president.
He knew Edwards "compliment" was really an underhanded insult.
Those smart enough to catch it would have been disgusted with Edwards already.
Those who didn't would have seen a negative Cheney response as overly defensive.
Cheney handled it with real class.
Clinton's excuse is that he's a sociopath, and we're lucky we escaped eight years of that man...of course we didn't. We're in the midst of the war on terror because of him. Amazing, isn't it, how many weirdos, incompetents, and crackpots the RATs come up with to run for president. Howie Dean was the pick of the bunch this time, and he's as crazy as a bedbug. Kerry is delusional and certainly obsessed with money. He's so far gone he doesn't realize all those photo ops with expensive toys did him harm. He can't help rubbing it in that he lives in rarified circles we little people can't even begin to imagine. A child would understand this attitude wouldn't get you many votes, but not Kerry. No, we have those memorable sound bites...the town hall: Shut up and sit down! This isn't your business. It's MY business! And that slap at the Secret Service man, 'that son of a b.tch made me fall down.' We're seeing the last days of Kerry, and thank God.
Why doesn't the dim duo mention the acceptance of J effen K's lesbian sister?
I'd be surprised if any evangelicals decided not to vote for Bush because his vice president's daughter is a lesbian. Everyone knows Bush's position on gay marriage, and that's what matters.
>>> Cheney dropped the ball in his debate.... he should have chastised Edwards for mentioning Mary instead of thanking him.
Not a good idea, IMO. Just a couple weeks before the debates, Cheney was talking about his daughter's publicly at a campaign rally. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198505/posts
The reason such a big deal is being made of it now is:
1) The need to attack Kerry on his strengths. Make him look like a homophobe.
2) To make the third debate memorable for that comment, and not for "That must be one of those exaggerations."
It couldn't be playing out better.
When you see a slap coming you put your hand up and try to block it. I think our side looks foolish. I was hoping to stop it before it got worse. Oh well. That's life. The hypocrisy is ours and we might as well wear it proudly. We can talk about her and they can't. That's the new rule.
We will see. He was rude and would have paid for that had we not looked like hypocrites by using her ourselves.
Heh, heh, heh. Just went to http://www.dnc.org and used their “contact us” function to send them the message below. If they get enough heat, perhaps they’ll dig themselves a deeper hole with a little self imposed flagellation.
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