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To: Suma who wrote (19053)	10/16/2004 10:39:54 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) of 90947

I agree that it was no secret, that the Cheney's had openly discussed the matter. But acknowledging it and expressing their support for their own daughter, generally in response to a question on the subject, is a lot different than bringing up the sexuality of someone else's daughter in such a gratuitous manner. I suspected when Edwards did it face to face with Cheney, and Kerry doing it in Cheney's absence strengthens my suspicion as it was so much more underhanded, that bringing up Cheney's daughter was intended just as the WSJ suggested - to suppress turnout from far right, ultra-religious voters. It doesn't matter that none of them will vote for Kerry - the point is to dampen their enthusiasm for the Bush/Cheney ticket just enough that a few won't bother to vote. In some of the battleground states, very small numbers can swing the whole state. It's a very cynical, underhanded approach to campaigning, but that's the "say anything" campaign they're running. Cahill's "she's fair game" comment confirms it. JMO, Bob PS: The "say anything - voters are too stupid to know the difference" approach is trickling down to state level, BTW. The Dem candidate for the Senate here is running a commercial telling voters the Republican candidate wants to raise everyone's taxes by "imposing a 23% sales tax on everything you buy" and implying that this would be on top of all existing taxes and even adding that "bog corporations will pay nothing." Never mind that the "Fair Tax" replaces both the income tax and payroll taxes (the latter of which is all most lower income people pay); never mind that the first twenty or thirty thousand of spending each year is exempt (actually the equivalent tax is "rebated", so many people will actually pay a negative tax - i.e. get back more than they pay); and never mind that corporations don't pay taxes now (their customers pay them through higher prices for goods - ask any economist). Those are just troubling little facts that voters are too stupid to care about, apparently. I used to respect this Dem, BTW. She's the one who booted Cynthia McKinney from Congress by running as a moderate (and a sane person;-). But she's getting desperate and has now adopted the "say anything" campaign strategy, too.

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