Letters to the Editor
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Bush's Ed Muskie moment
When Democrat Ed Muskie ran for president the Right Wingers tried to tear him down by first spreading a vicious rumor that Muskie had insulted an ethnic group (French Canadian Americans) and when that didn't work, the rabid-dog Manchester Union-Leader, Nixon's yellow rag megaphone in the Northeast, started going after Muskie's wife Jane. They started spreading a bald-faced lie that she was getting drunk and using foul language at stops on the campaign tour.
Finally Muskie, a man of deep religious faith and old-fashioned sense of honor had had enough. He made a speech outside the Union-Leader building in the cold and snow. He gave them a good dressing down. But the man had a cold and was wiping his nose as he spoke and snow was melting on his face. So the pictures were snapped and the headlines were written and it comes out like this: Muskie Has Emotional Breakdown!
The Nixon camp jumped on this like mad dogs on a soup bone. Within a day, Muskie was washed-up as a Democratic candidate. Mission accomplished.
So now we have a photo, OBVIOUSLY staged for the cameras, with Bush shamelessly letting big old tears run down his cheek without even trying, as a REAL MAN would, to at least wipe them away out of a sense of dignity, and what does the press make of it? Oh, George Bush is really a compassionate human being after all! See, he CAN cry! Poor man. He's endured so much and he really does "mourn every death" as he once snapped to a skeptical reporter.
So it's down to this again: When a Democrat cries, he's weak. When a Republican cries, it's out of deep compassion (For the men and women he's killed for nothing).