This is all over the news, so I won't bother to post a source, but you've probably heard the story:
Kerry, asked about his enviormental record, said that he never owned a SUV. A reporter asked him to explain, in that case, the picture of a gas-guzzling monstrosity parked in his driveway. Kerry's answer? Well, it isn't really HIS SUV, but HIS FAMILY'S (that is, his wife's, the Heinz company heiress--together with the house itself, the grounds it is built on, etc.), so, technically, he is innocent of the "crime" of ownership.
It is this sort of thing that hurts Kerry. Say he owned an SUV and "hypocritically" still claimed to be an enviormentalist. So? Big deal! Being hypocritical about the enviorment is very common, and besides whether he's an enviormentalist or not depends more on his voting record than his wheels. But to first deny you own an SUV, and then hide behind the "it's my wife's" excuse?
The sole result of such apologetics is that many people who couldn't care less if Kerry owns a whole fleet of SUVs and keeps them all with motor running 24/7, figure that he is the type of guy who resorts to "It's my wife's"-type excuses that someone like that shouldn't be president.
Which is why Bush's numbers, after a horrible period where everyhting seems to go wrong, are steady, and Kerry didn't gain any support.
Kerry, asked about his enviormental record, said that he never owned a SUV. A reporter asked him to explain, in that case, the picture of a gas-guzzling monstrosity parked in his driveway. Kerry's answer? Well, it isn't really HIS SUV, but HIS FAMILY'S (that is, his wife's, the Heinz company heiress--together with the house itself, the grounds it is built on, etc.), so, technically, he is innocent of the "crime" of ownership.
It is this sort of thing that hurts Kerry. Say he owned an SUV and "hypocritically" still claimed to be an enviormentalist. So? Big deal! Being hypocritical about the enviorment is very common, and besides whether he's an enviormentalist or not depends more on his voting record than his wheels. But to first deny you own an SUV, and then hide behind the "it's my wife's" excuse?
The sole result of such apologetics is that many people who couldn't care less if Kerry owns a whole fleet of SUVs and keeps them all with motor running 24/7, figure that he is the type of guy who resorts to "It's my wife's"-type excuses that someone like that shouldn't be president.
Which is why Bush's numbers, after a horrible period where everyhting seems to go wrong, are steady, and Kerry didn't gain any support.
