corrente

Good! Once again, the Republicans can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) dueled with President Bush over taxes and the economy yesterday and then, in an offhand comment to factory workers in Chicago, called the Republicans "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen," triggering an angry denunciation from Bush's campaign.

Last night, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot called Kerry's statement "unbecoming of a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America" and called on Kerry to apologize. "On the day that Senator Kerry emerged as his party's presumptive nominee, the president called to congratulate him," Racicot said. "That goodwill gesture has been met by attacks and false statements."
(via WaPo)

Gee.

Republican surrogates circulating false photos and stories about Kerry as soon as he clinched. That's the "gesture of good will" I remember.

UPDATE TBogg has a great compendium of hair-raising quotes that, if liberals were irk-able, they would be irked about. My favorite is Phil Gramm's "We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs."