It’s Bush’s Fault!

I was watching the end of “Hardball” last night and I caught a great exchange involving Chris Matthews, Tad Devive (the Kerry spokesman), and Matthew Dowd (the Bush spokesman). They were talking about Tom Harkin’s calling Vice President Cheney a “coward”.

Do you know why, according to the Kerry campaign, Harkin unleashed this attack? It’s the administration’s fault! Let’s go to the transcript mid-question from Matthews (emphasis there is mine).

MATTHEWS: …He called him a coward a number of times, Matt. Your response?

DOWD: I think it‘s just outrageous that Tom Harkin, a surrogate for the Kerry campaign, that would do it. Bill Clinton served the presidency with distinction without having served in Vietnam or in a war. Ronald Reagan served a presidency with distinction without having served a war or in a world war. And I think this name-calling is very unfortunate that has to happen in this environment.

MATTHEWS: Tad, your turn?

DEVINE: Well, first, Chris, I think we just made some history. We‘ve heard the Bush campaign say that Bill Clinton served the presidency with distinction. That‘s a breakthrough. We‘ve turned the corner on that one, I‘ll tell you that.

Now listen, I think we can understand Senator Harkin said something very tough today and I think I know why. Because this president and this vice president have so polarized this country, have so polarized this campaign, they‘re bringing out the absolute toughest things on both sides.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Tad, let me get something straight here. Speaking for the Kerry campaign, is Dick Cheney a coward?

DEVINE: Chris, Senator Kerry didn‘t say that. Senator Edwards didn‘t say that. Senator Harkin said it. He expressed his opinion and I think the reason so many people feel so strongly in this campaign is what this president and this vice president have done to this country and this campaign.

Get that? It’s Bush’s fault that the Democrats have gone so negative. The administration has so damaged the country that Senator Harkin had no choice but to call the Vice President a coward. He was a helpless victim of the horrible environment the evil Bush has created.

I’m guessing that MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Democratic Underground, and the protestors advocating injuring police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs during the RNC – for starters – all suffer from this Bush-originated red haze of rage. They all seemed to well-adjusted before the Bush Presidency, didn’t they?

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