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15:42 - Just wondering
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/091/politics/Bush_GOP_accuse_Kerry_campaign:.shtml
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I've not yet made my mind up on this latest brewing mini-scandal, which touched off a banshee-like wailing and gnashing of teeth from MoveOn.org yesterday (regarding FEC rule changes posted on 3/11 that would broaden the definition of "political committees") charging that the RNC was setting out on a wide-ranging pogrom upon all dissent against the Bush administration. It seems to be related to this story, in which the Bush campaign is charging the Kerry campaign of funneling soft-money contributions from nonconnected groups into the campaign's coffers.
It's not yet clear what's going on. But I just noticed this odd little piece of cognitive dissonance while reading the Boston Globe story. Compare this:
The Bush campaign and the GOP say pro-Kerry groups are illegally spending soft money in the presidential race, and that Kerry's campaign is illegally coordinating that spending. The groups have contended they are operating legally.
''They're making a mockery of what the rules are,'' Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot said.
With this:
Kerry campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter accused Republicans of political gamesmanship.
''We take the law very seriously. Republicans can't stand the fact the American people want change, so now they are playing politics with the law,'' Cutter said.
Question, Ms. Cutter: How is it politically responsible of you or your campaign for you to respond to a specific charge against your organization by lashing out with a hyperbolic blanket aspersion against half the country's citizens?
Way to court those swing voters, there. <clap> <clap> <clap>
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Brian Tiemann
