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| News Date | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "He is not a good man." That's how Lynne Cheney summed up John Kerry after the Democratic candidate decided to engage in a little gay-baiting of her daughter in the final presidential debate last week. Was Mrs. Cheney speaking only as an "angry mom," as she admitted, or did she expose an essential truth about John Kerry?
I don't like the recent tendency to cast political opponents as "enemies," "liars" and "evil," which the Democrats have engaged in far more than Republicans this election season. But John Kerry's actions over a lifetime do reveal a man with an unsteady moral compass, willing to say and do whatever he deems necessary to advance his own ambitions. The Bush campaign has characterized this tendency as flip-flopping, but it goes deeper than that. Kerry isn't a mere political opportunist but a man who knowingly engages in political deceit and is so contemptuous of those who disagree with him that he underestimates both their intelligence and their character.
Kerry's remark about the vice president's daughter was no accident but a conscious effort to discourage blue-collar Democrats and Christian voters from supporting the Bush-Cheney ticket. The remark bore the fingerprints of Bob Shrum, Kerry's chief political strategist and one of the most ruthless political operatives in the business. The Shrum-Kerry tactic says worlds about these two men's disdain for working-class Americans and people of faith as yahoos and bigots who would be so turned off by the sexual orientation of one of the Republican candidate's family members that they'd stay home on Election Day.
The move clearly backfired. |
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