[Sorry if Dupe]
I though Rich's take on Kerry's Mary Cheney comment very curious, especially since Kerry was SO ON during the debates that I couldn't understand why he'd give BC an opening. Then I read Frank Rich's article and it made more sense...
"The current Bush-Cheney campaign clearly believes that for these voters [wing-nuts], Mary Cheney's sexuality could be a last-minute turnoff ... Mr. Kerry, his critics all speculate, was deliberately seeking to depress voter turnout among Mr. Rove's M.I.A. religious conservatives by broadcasting Mary Cheney's sexuality to them for the first time."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/arts/24rich.html?8hpib=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&po
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