SQUEALING STUFFED PIGS
The Bushies are shocked – shocked! – that anyone would have the temerity to question Junior’s attendance record in the Alabama National Guard during the summer he spent campaigning there while heros like John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Max Cleland and John Mueller (my brother-in-law) were risking life and sometimes losing limbs in Vietnam. Michael Moore called Bush a "deserter", which he agrees may have been a slight overstatement, and Terry McCauliffe called him AWOL, which is about right.
Marc Rocicot, the reprehensible hired gun running Bush’s reelection campaign (Florida 2000 – Never Forget), demanded that front-runner Kerry disavow all such nasty factual disclosures made by others. After all, even though there are no records showing Bush even driving by and glancing at the airfield at which he was supposed to be serving, Junior received an honorable discharge and that should be that. Well, Daddy gets you in and Daddy gets you out. With honor, of course.
It’s interesting that the Bushies are playing this "disavowal" game. I think the Dems should play along. But the net for outrageous Bushie lies and smears spread by others must be cast so much wider. I think Bush should be asked at every press conference – if he ever has another one – whether his disavows the over-heated rhetoric of his main surrogates in the public domain: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, [insert your local radio wingnut(s) here – we all have them and it’s no accident], et al.
Driven by daily message-of-the-day e-mails by Karl Rove, the 24/7 radio wingnuts test the water for various Politics of Personal Destruction (PPD) campaigns that will poison the political atmosphere from now until November. Unable to win on the issues and really unable to run on Junior’s horrible record as the appointed president, PPD campaigns are designed not only to personally destroy anyone who would dare to challenge the Wingnut Dynasty, but also to suppress voter turnout and to make people think, even if they vote Democrat in the fall, that they are merely choosing the better of two Evils.
The difference between the army of Bush Surrogates and the tiny squeeks of whatever Michael Moore might say that finds its way into the media maw is that the Bushies have an unprecedented network of compliant sycophants who are all-too-willing to use their large megaphones to blast out whatever garbage Rove wants them to, twenty-four hours a day, usually on three or four outlets at once. The Democrats have to fight to get any message heard; the only reason this one is being discussed is because the Repubs squawked about it, there fore creating "controversy". The other difference is that the Bushies casually spread lies and innuendo, while the Democrats have to move heaven and earth just to get a simple truth out.
NEXT: A Partial List of Things for Bush to Disavow
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