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• Monday, December 17, 2007 06:18 PM

  @ AKA Smith

  I appreciate your point, but what are we to do? Have Dr. Phil interview the family on national TV? Publicly cross examine the other Boy Scouts under oath? Waterboard David Huckabee until he spills the beans on his purported childhood abuse?

  Sure, there is something, but what? You are making assumptions that are totally unsupportable by available information, and it is not fair to Mike Huckabee to insinuate otherwise.

  If his son's behavior was caused by abuse from his pastor or a neighbor or a babysitter, and not his family as you imply, would that still reflect badly on his son's upbringing by his father? We just don't have enough hard facts regarding cause and effect.

  The David Huckabee story in the context related here is attempted character assassination of Mike Huckabee by association.

  The same is true of the other three stories here. Guiliani didn't staple and kill a dog, his girlfriend did. Romney did what he did in a different era, when pets were seen much more as objects than they are now.

  I am much more concerned about Romney's acquiesce to the Mormon Church's institutionalized racism than whether or not he tied a dog cage to the roof of his station wagon in the 1980's.

  I'm a liberal, and for substantive reasons too numerous to mention here, I am not all that impressed with any of the candidates in this story. Does that mean Salon has to stoop to the innuendo, slime and sensationalism currently in vogue on the right?

  I mean, c'mon, we all basically knew that Bush did community service in Houston for a coke bust, and had his record expunged, or just plain lost.

  He didn't show up for his National Guard physical because he had coke in his system and would have flunked a drug test.

  That was real news. That was indicative of his character. The MSM wouldn't touch that one with a ten-foot pole, and look what we ended up with.

  I admit that there may be something darkly disturbing to some folks about some of these 'dog tales', but this post comes across as an attempt at cheap sensationalism to me.

  It's not nearly as disturbing as half a million dead Iraqis or half a trillion dollars looted from the US Treasury.

  Let's not stoop to the same level as opposition on the right.

  —vaporland Read vaporland's other letters
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