A blog called BlueGrassRoots has a post up saying that the Louisville Kentucky Republican party (specifically, the Jefferson County Republican Party) is handing out signs that read “Kerry is bin Laden’s Man/Bush is My Man.”
I put in a call to the head of the Jefferson County Republicans, Jack Richardon IV and asked him if this were true.
Richardson told me that he’d seen a bumper sticker with that phrase on it and agreed with it heartily. “I believe that if you look at John Kerry’s voting record in the senate,” he told me, “why wouldn’t bin Laden prefer Kerry over Bush?”
When I pressed Richardson on whether or not his party organization was distributing it, he acknowledged that they probably were handing it out on their campaign literature tables at recent events. And if it was being handed out, “I make no apologies for it.”
“I think it’s funny how the truth not only can be amusing but also make a point,” Richardson went on. “Why wouldn’t Kerry be bin Laden’s man? Bush certainly isn’t bin Laden’s man.”
Toward the end of our conversation Richardson told me I should also be writing about equally anti-Bush signs and bumper stickers he’d seen and other “slanderous things” being said about the president. I told him that made a lot of sense and asked whether he could tell me about similarly aggressive campaign material being distributed by Democrats in his area.
No luck.
“Quite frankly, I don’t care what they put out,” Richardson said. “They run their business and I’ll run ours.”
