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Tuckered Out
Record reader turn out in response to William Tucker’s get out the civility voter drive in the event of a Kerry win.
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BE NICE TO PRESIDENT KERRY?
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Re: William Tucker’s
A Plea for
Democracy
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p>William Tucker: Is this guy for real??
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Colin McCauley
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The other day on the radio Tim Russert, apparently trying to sound balanced and objective, compared the (mendacious) Democratic charge that Bush will bring back the draft with the (muted) Republican inference that Kerry would be a disaster as Commander-in-Chief. Both sides, according to Russert, are guilty of “fearmongering.”
Back in the Clinton years, when conservatives were, in Tucker’s terminology, “demonizing” Clinton, I don’t recall the conservative treatment of the sybaritic buffoon coming close to the manic contumely visited by the Left on the basically decent Bush. And Tucker fully anticipates the Left’s behavior to get much worse after Kerry loses.
But if Bush loses, Tucker expects — even pleads for — better comportment from conservatives. Fine. But does the expectation warrant distorted comparisons of the Russert variety?
p>What is there about the Left that gives them such control over the very terms of debate, even among conservatives? br> — John R. Dunlap
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