I just read this on the Talking Points Memo blog, and was so shocked by it that I had to rip off a substantial excerpt:
"A blog called BlueGrassRoots has a post up saying that the Louisville Kentucky Republican party (specifically, the Jefferson County Republican Party) is handing out signs that read 'Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is My Man.'
"I put in a call to the head of the Jefferson County Republicans, Jack Richardon IV and asked him if this were true.
"Richardson told me that he'd seen a bumper sticker with that phrase on it and agreed with it heartily. 'I believe that if you look at John Kerry's voting record in the senate,' he told me, 'why wouldn't bin Laden prefer Kerry over Bush?'
"When I pressed Richardson on whether or not his party organization was distributing it, he acknowledged that they probably were handing it out on their campaign literature tables at recent events. And if it was being handed out, 'I make no apologies for it.'
"'I think it's funny how the truth not only can be amusing but also make a point," Richardson went on. 'Why wouldn't Kerry be bin Laden's man? Bush certainly isn't bin Laden's man.'"
That is terrifying.
Posted by Paul Hina at July 17, 2004 12:35 AM