Them rolling eyes can pretty pretty aggravating, can't they Panz? :razz:
But, they weren't the point either.
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Ya'll are correct to assume the Republicans will milk this mistake for all it's worth. If the roles were reversed, the Democrats would do the same. That's how the game is played.
In chess if you make a tiny error, say giving me a single pawn advantage... I will immediately begin trading everything else off the board to exploit the mistake as much as possible. That's how the game is played.
Absent from your criticism that the Republicans will employ this obvious, effective strategy; is the realization that the mistake couldn't be exploited if it wasn't made in the first place. John Kerry made a mistake by disrespecting Cheney's daughter by calling undo attention to something that is none of his business. He compounded it by not acknowledging what could have been called a simple misunderstanding... and defending it instead. Many of you are compounding it as well by denying the simple truth. That is certainly keeping the debate going, no?
He's in a spot... The "damage control" solution might be to say something like, "Mary Cheney, I apologize if I offended you. That was certainly never my intention." But to do that, he admits he was wrong... To not do it; is no good either, because that's to
not admit his obvious wrong.
Lose/Lose situation, created by a foolish statement.
Somebody on John Kerry's team dropped the ball... and I bet whoever it is, he's soaking up some serious heat for it internally.
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