Cheney Spits Toads

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By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: September 9, 2004






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ASHINGTON — George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have always used the president's father as a reverse lodestar. In 1992, the senior Mr. Bush wooed the voters with "Message: I care.'' So this week, Mr. Cheney wooed the voters with, Message: You die.

>>>Without Zell Miller around to out-crazy him, and unplugged after a convention that tried to "humanize'' him with grandchildren, horses and wifely anecdotes about his inability to dance the twist, Mr. Cheney is back as Terrifier in Chief.

>>>These guys figure, hey, these scare tactics worked in building support for the Iraq war, maybe they can work in tearing down support for John Kerry. They linked Saddam with terrorism and cowed the Democrats (including Mr. Kerry, who has never been able to make the case against the Bush administration's trompe l'oeil casus belli) and fooled the country into going along with their trumped-up war. So why not link Mr. Kerry with terrorism and cow the voters into sticking with the White House they've got?

It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak. Every time Mr. Cheney opens his mouth, vermin leap out.


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1. Counter attack!

To counter Cheney's comments Dems need to stress that the world is much more likely to cooperate with Kerry than with Bush. Recent polls show practically all of U.S. allies, not just in Europe, vastly favor Kerry being elected over Bush, by large percentages. If this doesn't mean Kerry is likely to get much more support than Bush in the War on Terrorism, I don't know what does.....