"A Cheap and Tawdry Political Trick"

The 'Rats blather on about their support for gay rights and their sensitivity to their concerns - but they're the first people to point at an opponent and say "Look at him...he's GAYYYY!!!"

When Edwards first brought the subject up - I thought it was a major gaffe that he would be pounded by the DNC for. But what is now very clear - is that it's an intentional strategy. They've now mentioned it three times on national TV.

They are NUTS! If they think that the Christian right is going to be turned off to Bush in sufficient numbers to overcome the massive disgust across all demographics for this blatantly transparent smear attempt, they need courses in remedial interpersonal skills and basic math.

Te-RAY-sa went to see the flood victims and promised them twenty cases of ketchup. (Just kidding.)

Residents of the flood areas need help, not platitudes.

Yes, I truly believe W did a rope-dope in debate one. He wanted to lower expectations and let Kerry provide plenty of verbal blunders {which he did} to use throughout the remainder of the campaign. It was a gutsy move which I think worked. Them Texas boys play a wicked game of poker!

don't you mean the kid of Socialist??? tee hee hee

Oh, good point.

ping

Bush is much classier guy than Kerry.

He could have pointed out that the Kerry girls are probably thespians and that Kerry himself has been seen masticating in public.

(That statement was coldly calculated to inflict damage on Bush)

Calculated by an idiot, who obviously doesn't understand social conservatives,Christians or even gays for that matter.I wonder who's intelligence was insulted more by this pathetic attempt?

Put down the cinnabons and back away from the table, very s l o w l y

In Bremerton, WA, she would be classified as a "Bremalo."

"I need at least two pies or the kids won't get any."

I laughed outloud at that one. Not a flattering picture.

I was talking to some undercover cops today who were in the federal housing area testing out some new serveillance equipment. They wanted an excuse to be moping about the area while they tested the new microwave sound recording device. So they grabbed some Kerry campaign literature and walked around handing it out to residents/potential targets. As they handed it out, they said to be sure and vote for Jim Kerry (Carey). I thought that was funny.

As predictably smarmy as Kerry and Edwards's remarks were, it was Edwards's wife who said the thing that deserves a kick-her-teeth-down-her-throat response. That was absolutely the most OFFENSIVE thing I've ever heard allowed to go "on the record" by someone connected to a political campaign. A PERSONAL and OBNOXIOUS judgement which expresses what the first two remarks were actually intending to say. And by noon on Friday the fat Edwards cow will probably be advised to issue some kind of half-assed apology. Which should NOT be accepted. WHAT A PIG THIS WOMAN IS.

"Just wanted to see what it looked like in print"

that, Sir, is precisely why I have posted
on FR about 3000 times in the last 6 1/2 years!

BUSYWHISKERS WROTE: "Bush is much classier guy than Kerry."

Kerry has a LOT of class...It's just too bad it so LOW!!!

ROFL

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	October 14, 2004, 4:17 p.m. “A Cheap and Tawdry Political Trick” The Democrats misuse the vice president’s family to win. By Cesar V. Conda In a desperate attempt to win the White House, John Kerry and John Edwards have sunk to practicing the lowest form of politics — using the personal lives of the other candidates and their family members for political gain. Both John Kerry's and John Edwards's specific mention of the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter during the debates was a deliberate and calculated political attempt to suppress religious conservative voters from turning out to the polls for President George W. Bush. During last night's presidential debate, Senator Kerry said, "If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." This follows his running mate John Edwards's specific reference to Mary Cheney during the October 5 vice-presidential debate, during which he said, "And you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her." At a post-debate rally in Pittsburgh, Lynne Cheney said of Kerry's deliberate reference to her daughter's sexual preference: "The only thing I can conclude is that this is not a good man.... I'm speaking as a mom," Mrs. Cheney said. "What a cheap and tawdry political trick." What else explains both Kerry and Edwards pointing out Mary Cheney's sexual orientation in two nationally televised debates? Mary Beth Cahill, Kerry's campaign manager said in a post-debate interview on Fox News, "There are a lot of questions here about gay marriage and she is someone who's a major figure in the campaign. I think it's fair game." Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, Kerry's running mate, made matters worse on Thursday morning when she ridiculed Lynne Cheney for her remarks, suggesting Mrs. Cheney was ashamed of her daughter. Mrs. Edwards said: "It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response. I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences that I'm certain makes her daughter uncomfortable. That makes me very sad on a personal level." This is out of control. No, Mary Cheney's personal life is not fair game. Mary Cheney heads up vice-presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 04 campaign. She is not running for political office. She has absolutely no role in making domestic-policy decisions in the Bush administration. In fact, the policymaking process on the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage began well before Ms. Cheney formally joined the campaign in late 2003. While Vice President Cheney may hold his own private views about the need for a constitutional amendment, it is President Bush who ultimately sets policy for the administration. And the vice president fully supports the president's decision to endorse the constitutional amendment. Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke put it best when he said last night, "I think it was totally underhanded — the outing of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter.... And it struck me as a low blow designed to weaken the Bush-Cheney team with right-wingers who might not know that Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter." While the Democrats have been hurling specious and unsubstantiated charges about Republicans suppressing the African-American vote, Kerry and Edwards are leading their party's effort — on national television no less — to discourage religious and social conservatives from going to the ballot box for President Bush. This is dirty politics and the American people should reject them for it. — Cesar V. Conda was Vice President Dick Cheney's assistant for domestic policy.

You're right. It seems clear now that after Edwards referenced Mary Cheney in the first debate the Bush camp decided to let it lie perhaps thinking that the Kerry campaign would see it as a mistake. An ABC poll shows that people believe by a 2 to 1 margin that Mr. Kerry's remark was in bad taste. More interesting is how the major media, sympathetic to Kerry, has tried to spin the issue. Their talking points are that everyone knew Mary Cheney was a lesbian. It was common knowledge. To back up this filmsy logic they point out that it came out in an August Vice Presidential event in Iowa. Maybe it was common knowledge in America's political newsrooms but it is safe to say that the majority of Americans were unaware that the Vice President had a gay daughter. Mr. Kerry's 1971 testimony in front of the Senate was widely reported but if it were common knowledge now I doubt the Swiftboat Vets would have crafted an ad around it. So the fact that Mary Cheney's sexual orientation was not commonly know is precisely why neither Edwards nor Kerry could pass on an opportunity to point it up to the American public on national television. So the assertion that Ms. Cheney's sexual preference was common knowledge is completely bogus and the Kerry camp intentional brought it up to harm the President and that's gay-baiting.