Speakers breaking ‘positive’ promise
Democrats broke their pledge to put on a positive convention on the first night.
“There was a better than 2-to-1 ratio in terms of attacks on the president versus laudatory comments about Senator Kerry’s agenda,” said RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie.
“We also saw Senator Kerry [campaigning yesterday in Florida] attacking the president and trying to scare seniors by asking seniors if they were terrified of the new prescription-drug benefit and answering, ‘You should be,’ ” Mr. Gillespie said at a press conference yesterday.
Although convention speakers talked of safeguarding Social Security, “they did not mention that Senator Kerry voted for higher taxes on Social Security benefits at least eight times,” Mr. Gillespie said. “Kerry voted three times against repealing the 1993 Clinton tax increase on Social Security benefits.”
He said Democrats also falsely claimed that President. Bush has cut veterans funding, “when in fact, veterans funding has been increased by 40 percent under this president.”
Not only did those speaking in support of Kerry, but Kerry himself bashed Bush.
More liberal lies – - but then I really didn’t expect anything to venture away from the Bush bashing they have taken part in from day one.
That’s all you can come up with — Gillespie — to support your proposition that the Dems “broke” some sort of “promise”? I mean, seriously, anybody who’s not totally partisan and has followed first the primaries, then the pre-DNC campaign and now the convention itself unfolding can tell that they have significantly toned down. Heck, even the Rep’s recognize that, brandishing it as an “extreme makeover” on their own website.
Well toning down is one thing, but when they flat out say they’re not going to attack the President, they’re going to put out positive messages and a possitive convention, well then they’re lying. Period.
But really, if they can’t attack Bush, what can they say?
“I can do this, I just can’t tell you how!”
And this is a surprise????