The October 29th Surprise - Update II
Here is another, uglier story:
E. Bush paid for an illegal abortion. Source: http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=159, which also provides a keen, unintended insight into the paranoia and hatred that animates the extreme left.
I frankly doubt the Dems would pull this one because it could be so easily "discredited" by associating it with its first purveyor, the pornographer, Larry Flynt, who told the story on Crossfire in 2000. On the other hand, it would fit with what I perceive to be a key strategy of the Kerry campaign, namely, to blur the lines between Bush and Kerry as they may be viewed by conservative Evangelicals and Reagan Democrats/Catholics in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and either depress or manipulate their vote. Kerry is pro-gun control, which they don't like, so he does photo ops with guns and ducks. Kerry is pro-abortion, which they don't like, but he prominently mentions that he was an altar boy and believes life begins at conception (regardless of the contradictions in his positions). Kerry is pro-gay, sure, so he outs Mary Cheney to make sure that they know that Bush and Cheney are wishy-washy on the issue too. Why wouldn't he also want to blur the lines on abortion even further by saying, look, Bush paid for an abortion?
This is the standard tack of the left. They don't want to be honest and simply attack the moral values that middle America holds dear, even though they do not believe them and believe instead that we are rubes. No, they just want to say that Republicans are hypocrites because they pretend to believe in those values, but behave differently.
Now, to be honest, I don't know whether a story about Bush and abortion is true or false. Frankly, it wouldn't be astonishing to me to believe that Bush, who admits to having a wild youth, did, in fact, pay for an abortion in the early 1970s, at the height of the sexual revolution, when he was unmarried, when he was a flyboy, when he was a drinker and partier, etc. If he did, though, where is the hypocrisy? He says he was born again later. He says that he regrets much of his past. I assume he has prayed for forgiveness and redemption. That's what Christianity is for, after all. It's as if Democrats have forgotten that Christianity isn't about living a sinless life, it's about the fact that we are all sinners and that Christ died for our sins.
Ah, well. I just hope that the Dems don't drag some poor 60 year old woman through the mud just to bring an episode like this to light. It just wouldn't be decent. Don't there just have to be some things that they won't do to get elected?
Maybe not.
E. Bush paid for an illegal abortion. Source: http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=159, which also provides a keen, unintended insight into the paranoia and hatred that animates the extreme left.
I frankly doubt the Dems would pull this one because it could be so easily "discredited" by associating it with its first purveyor, the pornographer, Larry Flynt, who told the story on Crossfire in 2000. On the other hand, it would fit with what I perceive to be a key strategy of the Kerry campaign, namely, to blur the lines between Bush and Kerry as they may be viewed by conservative Evangelicals and Reagan Democrats/Catholics in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and either depress or manipulate their vote. Kerry is pro-gun control, which they don't like, so he does photo ops with guns and ducks. Kerry is pro-abortion, which they don't like, but he prominently mentions that he was an altar boy and believes life begins at conception (regardless of the contradictions in his positions). Kerry is pro-gay, sure, so he outs Mary Cheney to make sure that they know that Bush and Cheney are wishy-washy on the issue too. Why wouldn't he also want to blur the lines on abortion even further by saying, look, Bush paid for an abortion?
This is the standard tack of the left. They don't want to be honest and simply attack the moral values that middle America holds dear, even though they do not believe them and believe instead that we are rubes. No, they just want to say that Republicans are hypocrites because they pretend to believe in those values, but behave differently.
Now, to be honest, I don't know whether a story about Bush and abortion is true or false. Frankly, it wouldn't be astonishing to me to believe that Bush, who admits to having a wild youth, did, in fact, pay for an abortion in the early 1970s, at the height of the sexual revolution, when he was unmarried, when he was a flyboy, when he was a drinker and partier, etc. If he did, though, where is the hypocrisy? He says he was born again later. He says that he regrets much of his past. I assume he has prayed for forgiveness and redemption. That's what Christianity is for, after all. It's as if Democrats have forgotten that Christianity isn't about living a sinless life, it's about the fact that we are all sinners and that Christ died for our sins.
Ah, well. I just hope that the Dems don't drag some poor 60 year old woman through the mud just to bring an episode like this to light. It just wouldn't be decent. Don't there just have to be some things that they won't do to get elected?
Maybe not.
posted by PDB at 7:21 AM
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