Infiltration
We’ve heard about Republican-fudged voter rolls in Florida and Republican-jammed Democrat phone banks elsewhere around the country during elections. Is it so far-fetched to think there might be closet Republicans (*coughliebermancough*) in the Democratic party? I certainly think so.
You may recall that Bush built a major portion of his campaign on Al Gore’s lies. How can you trust someone who claims to have invented the Internet, for example. Or claims he was the inspiration for Love Story?
Well, now the Democrats think Bush is vulnerable on veracity as well — and not just with self-aggrandizing statements like the above (the first a misquote and the second actually true) — but public policy. Whether or not Al Gore thinks he invented the Internet doesn’t effect people much. But when you tell people they are going to get a $4,000 tax cut and they end up with $12, that’s something quite different.
Poking at Bush on the Credibility issue seems like a great idea to me. But some people apparently don’t think so.
But, as a top Democratic pollster who declined to be named said, the strategy could easily backfire. Focus groups conducted by various Democrats have shown that the American people trust Bush and disdain highly partisan politics, especially when the country is edging toward war. Senior Democrats also risk alienating Bush, whom several Republicans described as peeved that Daschle and others are questioning his honesty. [ Washington Post ]
Oh yeah, right. People only like to be told when Democrats are lying. When Republicans are lying they prefer to be kept in the dark.
