Is there some sort of office at republican party headquarters responsible for maintaining the circulation of ridiculous and completely fictional chain emails?
To me, the most likely outcome of someone asking if they could borrow $100 from a voter is that they’d be told they didn’t have it. And wouldn’t that be a great opening line for making a political point?
I couldn’t see either politician even asking the question.
A better tack would’ve been to give the guy $100, then assure them that they’d be able to keep it.
Do you really think it’s even possible that a Democratic Presidential nominee would do something that moronic, or that even if he did, the media wouldn’t have been all over it?
Not only is the story compltely fabricated, but so is the characteristic that it’s trying to critcize. It reflects absolutely no poltical, philosophical or ideological position ever propounded by Kerry. I sometimes wonder if the idiots who make these kind of email forwards up are aware that bearing false witness is prohibited in the Ten Commandments.
This isn’t BBQ Pit so I apologize if I’m rude, but …
I’m curious whether any Doper reading this would have had the slightest suspicion that any other Doper could possibly have imagined that there was any truth in it whatsoever.
I don;t think that the belief that liberals are more fond of redistributive government than conservatives is “based” on this story as much as the story is an illustration of it.
I seem to remember a certain amount of talk after the National Guard memos had been shown to be forged, that even though this particular story was false, it was still important because Bush was a deserter or AWOL or somesuch. Perhaps this story could be considered in the same light.
Some people fall for anything. Dopers have expressed a belief that Bush had started drinking again, that the Bushes were getting divorced, that there was election fraud in Ohio in 2004, and that Bush was going to cancel the elections.
I grant you that it would have to be an anti-Bush story to trigger that level of gullibility, but I suppose it could happen on the other side as well.