| This is rich: Dick "Cardinal Fang" Cheney comes to Newark, N.J., to help raise campaign cash for Tom Kean Junior's Senate bid, and Kid Kean stays out of sight until the rootin'est, tootin'est, shootin'est vice president in the Wild Wild West is safely gone.
Normally, I'd feel sympathy for anyone who wanted to stay out of range while Deadeye Dick was in town, but Kid Kean's main concern was to avoid being photographed with Ol' Snarly, knowing full well that any such pictures would keep the Democratic Party in material for the rest of the year. He does love those bucks Cheney can still rake in, but can you take dirty money without acquiring any of the oily film from the hand that gives it? How's this for a GOP campaign motto: "Take the green but avoid the sheen." That's moral fiber for you.
From the Bergen Record:
Kean campaign officials denied there was a coordinated effort to keep Kean and Cheney from being photographed together, thus giving Democratic campaign strategists an issue to exploit.
"There was no concerted effort," said Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for the Kean campaign,
describing the timing as an example of "ships that pass in the night."
Two ships that pass in the night, eh? Funny -- I thought there was only one Titanic. (Ba-dum, bish!)
Incidentally, Cardinal Fang's visit to Newark -- a city that's already caught its share of hell and doesn't need any more -- inspired this very amusing press release from Assemblyman Reed Guscoria. |
