Hat tip to Gina Vener - Weasel, weasel, weasel! From that interview, which was terrific:
<font size=4>SCARBOROUGH: So you spoke with John Kerry. Did he call you, or did you call him?
DOLE: <font color=red>He called me the next day and said <font color=blue>“I’m very disappointed.” <font color=red> I said, “Well, John, I’m disappointed, too, in all these undeserved attacks on President Bush. If you want to question Dick Cheney’s deferment, that’s fine. If you want to question the National Guard, that’s fine. But John, these other guys, these swift boat veterans are a lot of them that have a different view of what happened than you have, and they have a right to speak. We live in the United States of America. It’s a free country. You may not like what they say, but they have a right to say it.” <font color=black> SCARBOROUGH: And what did Senator Kerry say to you in response?
DOLE: <font color=red>He said, <font color=blue>“I haven’t spent one dime in my campaign on a negative ad.” <font color=red> Well, he doesn’t have to. He’s got George Soros, who put in $15 million. He’s got Harold Ickes up there cranking out millions of dollars of ads. He’s got his former campaign manager in Boston in another group called Bringing America Together.
President Bush to his credit, and I wish John Kerry would follow suit, said, “Let’s stop all these so-called 527 ads, all these soft money ads that have been so critical. Let’s talk about the issues.”
If there's anything I hate, it's somebody thinking I don't know what's going on or that I can be fooled by this kind of sh*t. Grrrrrr. |