[lbo-talk] Winning the 'honesty' vote ...

[Michael Dawson]

True enough, but you have to remember what people know.  Bush and
Republicans in general deliver what they promise, and don't waffle about
what they want.  Of course, if you're one of the 10 percent who read and
think a lot, you know they don't really believe in smaller government, and
that almost everything Bush has used to justify the invasion of Iraq is a
whopper.

But Kerry was massively unclear about the war, and he promised stuff he
couldn't and wouldn't deliver, and which his party doesn't truly believe in.
Democrats lie to their constituents systematically, implying they will solve
the health care crisis and give people good jobs, when the truth is that
neither of these things matters much to them once they have their butts in
their office chairs.  Computer billing was not going to save anybody "up to
$1,000" on health insurance, and trying to tax offshore profits wasn't going
to create a single job.  But those were the ads from Kerry.  Lies, and it
doesn't take much to know it.

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http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=1979

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Perhaps more astonishing than the polling on the murky issue of morality
(why aren't poverty and unjust war considered immoral?) are the figures
reported[*] in the New York Times: "Voters who cited honesty as the most
important quality in a candidate broke 2 to 1 in Mr. Bush's favor..."
The most mendacious Administration in American history won the honesty
vote?

* http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/politics/campaign/03assess.html

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