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elizabeth kolbert bush lost the election to mark sanford
and south carolina's congressional runoff election
and there is up
fairly substantial pile of evidence that the reason she lost the election was
because of continuous telephone push polling
pointing out that she had been involved back to at decades ago
in a divorce
uh... her husband was abusive
uh... it should
she her husband had
uh... he had he apparently was so abusive towards her that they were up he
had taken into custody for a few hours one day
and led the republicans try to turn this into something that it wasn't
just like
uh... dj
just like in two thousand
when
bush
was bean
getting passed b often by john mccain john mccain and had this upset victory
new hampshire he was the comeback kid he was going to be their public a nominee
in two thousand
they're all at that point was hanging on south carolina
and uh... jonah and john mccain
his wife
uh... they were if i believe they were actually in bangladesh the adopted this
orphan girl whose bangladeshi uh... if that's the right way to say that
uh... was very very dark skin i mean that's the stats that central part of a
shirt southern asia
and so this campaign this telephone push-pull campaign would you vote for
john mccain if you knew that he had a black child after american child out of
wedlock
which was not the case
so there was the same thing it was this distortion
of the reality and i got so bad apparently
that on the day of the election elizabeth kolbert bush headed had to
come out and say
uh... you know that was two-and-a-half decades ago and uh... in other words
she had to address it
because this was spring campaign had gotten so aggressive
and i just find astounding
the the depths to which
the call rosa our country
have taken our politics
and i also find astounding
that when a republican
spends
state money
and leaves his job
to go off and and they're not going to bed with uh... with a girlfriend in
another country
as soon as he says
yes i send and and invokes the name of god
hole is forgiven
tour like you know david interloper
url *** morris in the *** you had to become basically conservative to be
forgiven
by a democrat in a still mumbling under their breath about bill clinton
and monica lewinsky
and they tried to impeach bill clinton about that
can you imagine i mean you know it's it's like
we have
we have like these two different sets of standards a war
or maybe a few republican you can just magically invoked
god's forgiveness and
pretty much anything can be forgiven
in the political
actors playing that
a bizarre commentary on
understated politics
in the united states
hangout
for the record i just wonder