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October 13, 2004
Outsourcing Bush's heart
Check out Ellen Goodman’s column from this past Sunday, Outsourcing Bush’s heart, which addresses the unsettling role the first lady has taken in the campaign.
Goodman says that instead of being the “compassionate conservative” the President claims he is, Bush outsourced his compassion to his wife—though pretty unsuccessfully.
Trying to show the “softer side” of Bushie, the campaign has paraded out Laura incessantly these last few months trying to woo women voters. But as Goodman rightly points out, she isn’t exactly convincing.
Every day in her stump speech, Laura describes Afghanistan as a women's lib success story rather than a very shaky work in progress. When the Democrats promote embryonic stem cell research, she chides them with "compassionate" criticism for raising false hopes. When asked about the constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, the first lady wished away conflict by declaring that the proposal "opens up the debate."
At the end of the day, these aren’t issues you can try to sugar-coat or avoid. The Bush campaign wants to “humanize” the President and make him all woman-friendly, but it’s going to take a lot more than Laura to make us forget about, um…oh yeah—his insane policies toward women! Sheesh.
Do they really think a come-see-the-softer-side-of-Sears campaign is really going to be effective?
Posted by Jessica at October 13, 2004 10:45 AM
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