Word: cheneyism
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VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, to Senator John Edwards, during their vice-presidential debate, after criticizing his opponent's "not very distinguished" record in the Senate...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS, the candidate's wife, reporting what she said to Cheney when they met onstage after the debate; the men had actually met three times before...
...major leaks in Coral Gables, Fla., had its talking points down: the President "shattered Kerry's credibility" by whacking him with his liberal Senate record, while Kerry looked arrogant and aloof. At one point, when the camera caught Kerry leaning back, his head rolling back with his body, Bush-Cheney communications director Nicolle Devenish and much of the senior campaign staff, who were watching in the holding room, started shouting "Haughty! Haughty! Haughty!" That was the Bush spinners' word of the night, a favorite sentiment that showed up in early focus groups, designed to paint Kerry as out of touch...
...comparison, the G.O.P. effort is hyperpersonal. The Republicans are relying on volunteers like Billie Fiore, a paralegal by day and Licking County's Bush-Cheney campaign coordinator the rest of the time. The front seat of her station wagon is filled with maps, the back with yard signs. Fiore has replaced the baskets of voter-registration materials she once carried in the back seat with absentee-ballot forms to give to potential Bush voters who might not make it to the polls on Election Day. She says workers from her pool of 3,000 volunteers are making a total...
...draft, privatize Social Security and, brace yourself, lower dairy prices--the prospect of which in Wisconsin, where Kerry made the charge last month, can make a grown man cry. Of course, the biggest "fear" scandal of the campaign thus far (the night is young) was Vice President Dick Cheney saying that we are more likely to be "hit again" by terrorists if John Kerry is elected...