Tuesday, July 26, 2005
When The Neighbors Come Calling
In what is quickly becoming a Democrat tradition, Ted Kennedy, in an interview with the Atlantic regarding the national political ambitions of Republican Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, poached a taboo personal fruit, hoping the un-mainstream juices would flow over, obscuring whatever substantive message Romney might have. An excerpt from the article:
In the same article, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, brought up Romney’s Mormon faith with the Atlantic interviewer. “The question you didn’t ask,” Kennedy said, “was about Mormonism, whether it would hurt him in a national campaign.”If we’ve moved on, then why did you volunteer that?“The answer is no,” Kennedy answered. “We’ve moved on. That died with my brother Jack.”
It is impossible to distinguish between this rather pathetic move and the espousal in recent years of “outing” homosexual Republicans as a tool in the bag of DNC dirty tricks. (Recent notable perpetrators include John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and the Krazy Kos Kidz vis-a-vis John Roberts’ four-year-old son.) Both are cruel tactics and moreover they betray deep and focused hate on the part of our tolerant friends, the Democrats.
One hopes that Chairman Dean would make a public statement condemning these sorts of actions, lest they be ascribed in the public mind to the Democratic Party writ large. But I think leading Democrats have learned that silence is often the better option, given that the DNC is faced with very little public scrutiny.
UPDATE: John Tuttle reminds me of an even-more-recent example: Senator Santorum’s communications director.
Posted on July 26, 2005 06:51 AM. Permalink 