Posted on 10/17/2004 5:58:10 PM PDT by SmithL
PRESIDENT Bush has surged to a six-point lead in his battle to stay at the White House — amid a backlash against election rival John Kerry among women voters.
Senator Kerry’s popularity plunged after he singled out vice-president Dick Cheney’s daughter as a lesbian in the final head-to-head TV debate.
The comment while answering a question on beliefs about homosexuality enraged her family.
Mum Lynne Cheney demanded an apology after accusing Kerry of a “tawdry political trick”.
Bush now leads his Democrat challenger by 50 points to 44 — his strongest lead for three weeks, according to a poll by US magazine Newsweek.
Tough-talking Bush is more popular with women and dominates among Americans aged 30 to 49. Kerry is ahead among pensioners.
He suffered a further blow yesterday as Bill Clinton — recovering from heart surgery — confirmed he would make few appearances in the run-up to the November 2 poll. Kerry had banked on the ex-president encouraging Democrats to go to the polls.
Mrs. Edwards in disrespectful of women herself for representing herself as one. She is really a Rhino and I don't mean a Republican in name only.
I agree. I think the results of the election would be the same with or without Kerry's remark.
Just to think we'll never have to see that pompous loser after a couple more weeks.
Over the course of the day today, the Iowa Electronic Market has Kerry down 0.017 to 0.404 combined.
At the same time, GWB is up 0.029 to 0.605 combined.
I've been out for most of the day. Was the Kerry/Cheney flap discussed a lot on the Sunday talk shows?
2008: Rudy and Condi
vs
Hillary "You've Hit Rock Bottom with Rodam" Clinton and a male of color (I just love that p.c. term...."of color"--it's SO Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein--all those lovely Democrat ladies from California.)
Hmmm--where does the Governator fit in for 2008, I wonder?
That's what he gets for a bringing up a subject he never should have brought up in the first place.
Clinton is using his heart as an excuse. You don't really think Hillary wants Kerry to get elected!!!
Love the sticker.
Sad, is it not?
the real gaffe isn't being talked about much -- and was how he completely omitted any reference to his wife on the last question and made up the fiction about his dying mothers last words... IMHO the cheney thing was less mindboggling a gaffe as this, rather it was just the final straw to ignoring his wife (particularly in contrast to GWB's heartfelt eloquence regarding laura b.)
It does speak to character, and that character Kerry has manifested his entire life.
Kerry is ahead among pensioners
The Greatest Generation? Greatest at what?
Bush is so disrespectful of women, he loves his wife, and let's her give public policy speeches on education and women's issues.
Kerry is so respectful of women, he apparently cheated on his first wife, divorced her, and had that marriage anulled. With two daughters from that first marriage, one wonders what their legitimacy status is under church law...
Respect... it is a funny thing.
Good one, really a good one!!! I am laughing so hard I am having a hard time typing on my laptop!!!
we'll see him through the court challenges and the drummed-up 'controversy'.
That was a huge gaffe, but the Cheney one seems to be sticking a lot better.
Kerry/Edwards can be reduced to 3 lines: Bush is bad, Kerry was in Vietnam, and Mary Cheney is a lesbian.
Bush (the so-called dummy) used his L-word to solid effect. Kerry can't refute the label Liberal. Kerry (the heralded intellectual) used his L-word like a tasteless lawyer trick that came out flat, contrived, and inconsiderate.
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