Pushing the boundaries:Six months ago (six months!), Republican Representative Jean Schmidt
caused an uproar in Congress for what she implied about Democrat Jack Murtha: (emp add)
[I am sending] Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.
Minutes after that Schmidt withdrew her remarks and apologized to Murtha.
That was then. But now, saying that about Murtha (and Kerry) is perfectly acceptable,
even when spoken by Bush's top political strategist: [
NYT] (emp add)
On Monday night, the president's top political strategist, Karl Rove, told supporters in New Hampshire that if the Democrats had their way, Iraq would fall to terrorists and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not have been killed.
"When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," Mr. Rove said at a state Republican Party gathering in Manchester.
Expect things to get even nastier in the coming months.
posted by Quiddity at 6/17/2006 11:34:00 PM
And yet Bush is the one who is getting ready to cut and run -- and blame the opposition.
Republicans withdraw.
If Democrats propose the same withdrawal, it is "cut and run."
We will never win till we have a news station that squarely states that Americans who voted for Bush in 2004 were idiots or dupes.
Certainly Fox is willing, ad nauseum, to denigrate those who vote Democrat.
