{"id":21793,"date":"2004-01-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:10","slug":"frauds_and_phonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/01\/27\/frauds_and_phonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Frauds and Phonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/frauds.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignright\"\/> Kaus says that Bonifaz\u2019s criticism of Kerry for voting <emphasize>YES<\/emphasize> on Iraq but now whining that Bush &#8220;promised&#8221; not to invade, could really hurt. &#8220;Never mind what it says about Kerry\u2019s judgment that he trusted the vague promises made by a president he now claims is so unfit for office&#8230;. It turns out that in his Senate floor speech before the Iraq vote, Kerry noted the &#8216;promises\u2019 and anticipated their possible breaking.&#8221; <\/line><BR\/>Kerry is the one who <strong><emphasize>promised <\/emphasize><\/strong>to &#8220;be the first one to speak out&#8221; if Bush failed to beg the UN for permission, etc. Yet he didn\u2019t do so at all out of cynical political calculation. The whole point of these two stories is to expose candidates who are in Cover-Your-Clymer mode after accusing people of doing things they haven\u2019t done. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Kerry or Edwards or Clark; we are dealing with people who are frauds. Dean is the only one who\u2019s comfortable being who he is, and thus blows the cover of the kook hatred the rest of their party tries hard to conceal. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>A friend e-mailed me with a specific perspective on Edwards, writing, &#8220;He has spent his life convincing groups of 12 people on a jury to go his way.&#8221; So being a phony comes most naturally to Edwards. Bill Clinton was a natural fraud in much the same way. He didn\u2019t have to stop and think on his feet or in advance strategically about how to fool people. Compare that to Wesley Clark, who can\u2019t answer the simplest of questions on the estate tax. Sadly, this stuff doesn\u2019t bite Democrats, as we see with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"\/\/home\/folder\/byrd.member.html\">Robert Byrd<\/a> belonging to the Ku Klux Klan. <\/line><BR\/>You\u2019ll never see last-minute stories about a Democrat\u2019s DWI. All we ever get are manufactured stories from the mainstream press praising their supposed positives. A lot of you have been calling in with worries that Bush isn\u2019t attacking Edwards or any of these other guys. You have an instinctive understanding that these phonies are going to get away with misrepresenting themselves and their policies. You\u2019re hoping other people figure it out, and you don\u2019t hear or see other people saying it. That\u2019s why you\u2019re upset. I understand totally, and I hear you. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/frauds.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaus says that Bonifaz\u2019s criticism of Kerry for voting YES on Iraq but now whining that Bush &#8220;promised&#8221; not to invade, could really hurt. &#8220;Never mind what it says about Kerry\u2019s judgment that he trusted the vague promises made by a president he now claims is so unfit for office&#8230;. 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