3rd Debate: Women Voters
..."in an election where the Democrat has fallen behind with women, Kerry's post-debate troubles will be on two talking points about women: Mary Cheney and his answer to Bob Schieffer's "strong women" question."...
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Kerry's Mary Cheney Stumble:
Kerry: ..."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."...
Double standard?:
....."Bringing up Mary Cheney serves only one purpose -- to try to embarass the Cheney family, an odd thing to do for someone who purports to sympathize with gays and lesbians.
...."equivalent to Bush using Julia Thorne, Kerry's ex-wife, to refute Kerry's insistence that he is a practicing Catholic and that Kerry respects families. If Bush were to bring up Kerry's annulment -- another interesting parallel to his Massachusetts mentor -- he would rightly be blasted by Democrats as a nosy busybody engaging in smear tactics."...
Kerry's Softball Stumble: no names, no mention of love or trust
...."lousy performance came on an unimaginably easy softball specifically designed for Kerry to broaden his appeal to women."....
...."Take another read on his response -- no names, no mention of love or trust ... just how they keep him honest, as if that was their entire purpose in life.
He talked about his mother on her deathbed, and rather than talk about her life and how her outlook shaped his,"...."he instead told an insipid story about how she gave him campaign advice while she was dying. "Integrity, integrity, integrity"?"....
...."why would his own mother feel the need to give him that advice as her valediction to her own son?
Truly awful. And watching it was even worse, because as I wrote at the time, he stumbled over the entire response, even though he answered after Bush on this question. It came across as cold, lecturing, and frankly, rather strange."... |
